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The Talisman

by Walter Scott

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  1. 01Front matter~26 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I.~17 min
  3. 03CHAPTER II. — part 1~25 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II. — part 2~9 min
  5. 05CHAPTER III. — part 1~21 min
  6. 06CHAPTER III. — part 2~25 min
  7. 07CHAPTER III. — part 3~10 min
  8. 08CHAPTER IV. — part 1~22 min
  9. 09CHAPTER IV. — part 2~12 min
  10. 10CHAPTER V.~12 min
  11. 11CHAPTER VI. — part 1~25 min
  12. 12CHAPTER VI. — part 2~2 min
  13. 13CHAPTER VII. — part 1~25 min
  14. 14CHAPTER VII. — part 2~6 min
  15. 15CHAPTER VIII. — part 1~25 min
  16. 16CHAPTER VIII. — part 2~3 min
  17. 17CHAPTER IX. — part 1~25 min
  18. 18CHAPTER IX. — part 2~7 min
  19. 19CHAPTER X.~23 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XI. — part 1~24 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XI. — part 2~21 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XII.~19 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XIII.~22 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XIV.~21 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XV.~21 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XVI.~13 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XVII.~22 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XVIII. — part 1~25 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XVIII. — part 2~11 min
  30. 30CHAPTER XIX. — part 1~25 min

A few words to begin

They, too, retired To the wilderness, but 'twas with arms. PARADISE REGAINED. The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.

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