Name: The Blackguard
Author: Roger S. Pocock
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The Blackguard

by Roger S. Pocock 7 Mar, 2023

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Excerpt.... The setting sun just touched his wavy, crisp, black hair with a lustre of metal. Again, his face, still, strong, silent, had an odd suggestiveness of a bronze statue, that of something Greek but uncanny, a faun, perhaps, or a satyr. ... Read more

Excerpt.... The setting sun just touched his wavy, crisp, black hair with a lustre of metal. Again, his face, still, strong, silent, had an odd suggestiveness of a bronze statue, that of something Greek but uncanny, a faun, perhaps, or a satyr. The hair, sweeping low over his brows, might almost conceal incipient horns; his ears might have been tufted; his features defying all the rules—stuck on anyhow; the subtle devilry of his deep black eyes, the ugly fascination, the whimsical dignity; the bearing lofty, defiant, almost magnificent; and again, an air, indefinite enough, of sorrowful majesty;—how well everything about the man fitted one name—the Blackguard.

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Roger S. Pocock

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(1865-1941) British soldier, writer, adventurer, member of the North West Mounted Police, and founder of the Legion of the Frontiersmen. After serving on the training ship Wellesley, Pocock went to w...

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