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...ourney in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevens... ...s Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... the country fall away before me down to the sea; and in the midst of this descent, on a long ridge, the city of Edinburgh smoking like a kiln. There ... ...s account, that minded for nothing either in heaven or earth; one that, as people said, would “crack on all sail into the day of judgment;” rough, fie... ...the Carolinas? Any friend of Mr. Balfour’s can command. A roll of tobacco? Indian feather- work? a skin of a wild beast? a stone pipe? the mocking-bir... ...” said I; and then, thinking that a man with so fine a coat must like fine people, I added for the first time, “of Shaws.” It never occurred to him to... ... my people at your command.” You are to remember that I knew no more of my descent than any cadger’s dog; my uncle, to be sure, had prated of some of ... ... his comments on them as he wrote. “This,” says he, “is to my bankers, the British Linen Com- pany, placing a credit to your name. Consult Mr. Thomson... ... The hand of Providence brought me in my drifting to the very doors of the British Linen Company’s bank. T o return to the Robert Louis Stevenson page...

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...S SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... reality in an invented world, amongst imaginary things, hap- penings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the discl... ..., not good enough for his insis- tent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to snivelling and giggles. These may seem selfish considera... ...his worship for Napoleon the Great, he loved really, I believe, only three people in the world: his mother—your great- grandmother, whom you have seen... ...g many words on the mere amenities of life. This was my first contact with British mankind apart from the tourist kind seen in the hotels of Zurich an... ...Reminiscences question of it at all, nowhere or with any one. We began the descent of the Furca Pass conversing mer- rily. Eleven years later, month f... ... Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine’s Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service. But the man who put his hand on my shoulder at th... ...e the trees of the square with all their leaves gone were like tracings of indian ink on a sheet of tissue paper. It was one of those London days that...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the ac...

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...o Have. The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far short of happiness. It must be a floor covered with linoleum or cork carpet, so that toy soldiers and such-like will stand up upon it, and of a color and surface that will take and show chalk marks; the common green colored cork ca...

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