Summary for Clarissa Oakes

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== CHAPTER 5 ==
== CHAPTER 5 ==
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Cracking on for Moahu - [[Sarah and Emily Sweeting|Sarah and Emily]] useful in [[sickbay]] -
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Cracking on for Moahu - [[Sarah and Emily Sweeting|Sarah and Emily]] useful in [[Lexicon:Sick bay, sick berth|sickbay]] -
Reade injured - reveals Clarissa being visited - Jack explains [[Batten down|battening down]] -
Reade injured - reveals Clarissa being visited - Jack explains [[Batten down|battening down]] -
[[whaler]] sighted at Annamooka, Friendly Islands - Oakes beating Clarissa - Friendly Islanders come aboard with Captain of whaler - briefing on war
[[whaler]] sighted at Annamooka, Friendly Islands - Oakes beating Clarissa - Friendly Islanders come aboard with Captain of whaler - briefing on war
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in Moahu and ''Franklin'' [[privateer]] - whaler's surgeon, [[Lexicon:Hydrophobia|hydrophobia]].  
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in Moahu and ''Franklin'' [[privateer]] - whaler's surgeon, [[Lexicon:Hydrophobia|hydrophobia]].
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Clarissa safety in [[London]] - ambush set up for Kalahua's men - Oakes to take
Clarissa safety in [[London]] - ambush set up for Kalahua's men - Oakes to take
''Truelove'' to Batavia with Clarissa - reception by Queen Puolani, she
''Truelove'' to Batavia with Clarissa - reception by Queen Puolani, she
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accepts [[King George III|King George]] (Jack)'s protection - battle in mountain cleft, massacre - cannibal feast with Puolani, Kalahua eaten - bed with Puolani - Oakes sails with ''Truelove'', ''Surprise'' in pursuit of ''Franklin''.
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accepts [[George III|King George]] (Jack)'s protection - battle in mountain cleft, massacre - cannibal feast with Puolani, Kalahua eaten - bed with Puolani - Oakes sails with ''Truelove'', ''Surprise'' in pursuit of ''Franklin''.
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[[Category:Book summary|Clarissa Oakes/The Truelove]][[Category:Clarissa Oakes (novel)]]

Current revision as of 01:39, 12 November 2007


SPOILER WARNING:  Plot or ending details for "Clarissa Oakes"  follow.

A chapter by chapter look at Clarissa Oakes

Contents

CHAPTER 1

Surprise in Pacific, Stephen recovered - Jack hipped - made game of by Selina Wesley - consults Stephen, not comforting - divisions - Easter Island described - Clarissa Harvill found in cable tier - Oakes owns up - Jack will put both ashore on Norfolk Island.

CHAPTER 2

Norfolk Island - Bonden reports landing impossible - Jack cheers up - Éclair cutter, Jack tries to ignore her - trigonometry in gunroom, wasted on Stephen and Martin - Oakes and Clarissa married - cutter catches up in the night - mail for Surprise - ordered to Moahu - dinner with officers and Clarissa - Jack describes cutting out of Hermione - Clarissa well-behaved.

CHAPTER 3

Diana's letters worrying, Brigid stupid, disagreements with Sophia - Stephen describes Clarissa, pleasant but implacable - consults Stephen, not pregnant - Jack, now landowner, offers parish to Martin - West and Davidge on bad terms - Clarissa disturbing all the officers, including Jack - swordfish caught, gunroom can have wedding feast.

CHAPTER 4

Stephen dissects swordfish, in haste - royal salute - gunroom dinner, Davidge hurt - West describes Glorious First of June - Jack concerned at ill-feeling among officers - midshipman Reade over-indulges - all seems due to jealousy over Clarissa.

CHAPTER 5

Cracking on for Moahu - Sarah and Emily useful in sickbay - Reade injured - reveals Clarissa being visited - Jack explains battening down - whaler sighted at Annamooka, Friendly Islands - Oakes beating Clarissa - Friendly Islanders come aboard with Captain of whaler - briefing on war in Moahu and Franklin privateer - whaler's surgeon, hydrophobia.

CHAPTER 6

Jack briefs Stephen - watering and trading on Annamooka - quarrel over feeding pigs - Martin refuses to accompany Clarissa ashore - Stephen walks with her - Clarissa volunteers her history - incest, child abuse, Mother Abbott's - Ledward and Wray, and their Ducal friend.

CHAPTER 7

Stephen writes to Blaine, asks protection for Clarissa - Martin, Dr Falconer's account of volcanoes - unseamanlike exit from Annamooka - Jack refuses Tom Pullings' invitation to gunroom dinner - Tom explains ill-will due to Clarissa - Jack rebukes West and Davidge - Clarissa's indifference to male nudity - Captain's dinner, the Oakeses well and happy - Clarissa melancholy afterwards.

CHAPTER 8

Seven men flogged - Clarissa tells Stephen she was often raped - for her, kindness and sex not connected - Stephen and Martin go fishing, shark - heavy exercise for crew - Stephen advises Clarissa - helps Jack choose flying column, with tale of Finn MacCool - Clarissa watches gunnery exercise - Jack tells crew to disguise Surprise as whaler for attack at Moahu.

CHAPTER 9

Pabay, northern Moahu - men off fighting Queen Puolani - Davidge and column run to cut off Frenchmen headed south - Davidge killed and all Frenchmen - Surprise hastens south to Eeahu - Stephen offers Clarissa safety in London - ambush set up for Kalahua's men - Oakes to take Truelove to Batavia with Clarissa - reception by Queen Puolani, she accepts King George (Jack)'s protection - battle in mountain cleft, massacre - cannibal feast with Puolani, Kalahua eaten - bed with Puolani - Oakes sails with Truelove, Surprise in pursuit of Franklin.

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