...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y San Francisco. He wittily reproves English ignorance as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming? The name Yankee... ...on windows of my affectation. Once I remember to have observed two working-women with a baby halting by a grave; there was something monu- mental in t... ...so far as his views were modified by a hot-headed chivalrous sentiment for women. He was actually in favour 62 Robert Louis Stevenson of a marriage l... ...th respectability. A street-dog was once adopted by a lady. While still an Arab, he had done as Arabs 90 Robert Louis Stevenson do, gambolling in the... ...pare with these, and that was on the night when I brought back with me the Arabian Entertainments in the fat, old, double- columned volume with the pr... ...lity of incident? often, if you will, impossible; often of the order of an Arabian story; and yet all based in human nature. For if you come to that, ...

...r congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...