title: Reflections of Breeze: Poetry, Prose, Love Letters and Meditations
author: Mollee Ostrander
description: Born in Peoria, and raised and educated throughout the U.S. A mother of 5 who lost her spouse in 1996. She has run the gamut of relationships and interactions with people. Having been exposed to works such as Robert Lewis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, she began writing at the age of 12. She also delved into theatre, theology and business, but writing always held her heart. Currently, she devotes all her time to writing and is rarely without a pen and paper.
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  # The Two Captains
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouque
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX.
  
  
  
  
  
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  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  A Mild summer evening was resting on the shores of Malaga,
  
  
  awakening the guitar of many a merry singer among the ships in the
  
  
  harbor, and in the city houses, and in many an ornamental garden
  
  
  villa. Emulating the voices of the birds, the melodious tones greeted
  
  
  the refreshing coolness, and floated like perfumed exhalations from
  
  
  meadow and water, over the enchanting region. Some troops of
  
  
  infantry who were on the shore, and who purposed to spend the night