The suddenness of the whole proceeding, the change from the monotonous regularity of ship life to that of wild outlawdom, had taken him so much by surprise that it deprived him of speech.
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The suddenness of the whole proceeding, the change from the monotonous regularity of ship life to that of wild outlawdom, had taken him so much by surprise that it deprived him of speech.
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True History grants the readers glimpses into the psyche of a nineteenth-century Irishman, whose “brave parents was ripped from Ireland like teeth from the mouth of their own history," and who himself was driven to outlawdom by the injustices of the British colonial administration.
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