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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... on high Is more of might by far Than noise of many waters is Or great sea-billows are.’ The thunder at the wall when it first struck – the rush along... ...eing a church door open, I went in, and was led by most importunate finger-bills up a long stair to the top of the tower. The father smoking at the do... ... I have at the present six shillings and a penny; I have a sounding lot of bills for Christmas; new dress suit, for instance, the old one having gone ... ... the winter; certainly till after Christmas, and then it depends on how my bills ‘turn out’ whether it shall not be till spring. So, meantime, I must ... ...ipally the work of venal Scots.’ – Stevenson’s Handy Cyclopaedia. Glescow: Blaikie & Bannock. Remember me in suitable fashion to Mrs. Gosse, the off- ... ...f creditor Death, I can snap my fingers at all men. Why will people spring bills on you? I try to make ‘em charge me at the moment; they won’t, the mo...

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