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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ys) would be present on the benches, and, at the near end of the platform, Lindsay se- nior* was airing his robust old age. It is possible my succes- ... ...t old age. It is possible my succes- sors may have never even heard of Old Lindsay; but when he went, a link snapped with the last century. He had som... ...awing up to speak good-humouredly with those he met. And now, in his turn, Lindsay is gone also; inhabits only the memories of other men, till these s... ...a noble fellow, and makes, by the way, a noble and instructive contrast to Daniel Deronda; his conduct is the conduct of a man of honour; but we agree... ...nterest the other day in a new book, The Sailor’s Sweetheart, by Mr. Clark Russell. The whole business of the brig Morning Star is very rightly felt a...

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