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...afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any,...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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...d without any charge 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 Pen... ...r the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...age, though she was not only sick, but much his senior, and had nursed and cared for him in childhood. In appearance he was like an imbecile Henry the... ...declared, what was the truth, that there was a pair of us indeed. 9 Robert Louis Stevenson EARLY IMPRESSIONS WE STEAMED OUT of the Clyde on Thursday ... ... difference in the social scale. When people pass each other on the high seas of life at so early an age, the contact is but slight, and the rela- tio... ...k point of his position; for if he could get on in America, why could he not do the same in Scotland? But I never had the courage to use that argument... ... did not know what you meant by the word happiness. He had forgotten the simple emotions of childhood, and perhaps never encountered the delights of y... ...are all so, if you come to that. At bottom, as it seems to me, there is but one question in modern home politics, though it appears in many shapes, an... ...en the delightful place it was. At least, if I had been in the customary public room of the modern hotel, with all its disproportions and discomforts,...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...turned with a quick laugh. “How old is your house? Is it Elizabethan?” “It’s early Tudor,” said Ralph Touchett. She turned toward him, watching his fa... ...arly Tudor,” said Ralph Touchett. She turned toward him, watching his face. “Early Tudor? How very delightful! And I suppose there are a great many ot... ...cting the two sides of the house, which Isabel and her sisters used in their childhood to call the tunnel and which, though it was short and well ligh... ...ord, and it was his own fault if he had placed in his son’s hands the key to modern criticism. Ralph, whose head was full of ideas which his father ha... ... youth, but they had bright, fresh complexions and something of the smile of childhood. Yes, their eyes, which Isabel admired, were round, quiet and c... ...of course that it should be a noble picture. Within, it had been a good deal modernized—some of its best points had lost their purity; but as they saw... ...eous a kind they had been. Lord Warburton had left Lockleigh and was gone to Scotland, taking his sisters with him; and though he had written to Ralph...

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...orrupt than the government of England, should have fallen with a far heavier ruin. The movement against the last king of the house of Stuart was in En... ...how. It is in books more specifically didactic that we can follow out the effect, and distinguish and weigh and compare. A book which has been very in... ...t, if you like, but it belongs purely to didactic art, and from all the novels I have read (and I have read thousands) stands in a place by itself. He... ...nly in a chosen few that any man will find his appointed food; and the fittest lessons are the most palatable, and make themselves welcome to the mind... ...all into the error of the French naturalists, and consider any fact as wel- come to admission if it be the ground of brilliant handi- work; or, again,... ...hat is meant is my first novel. Sooner or later, somehow, anyhow, I was bound to write a novel. It seems vain to ask why. Men are born with various ma... ...de Justice. So long ago, so far away it was, that I had first evoked the faces and the mutual tragic situation of the men of Durrisdeer. My story was ...

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...during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacio...

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... by Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis St... ...file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ... ... is but a troubled resting-place; you become a public character; the convivial rustic visits your bedside af- ter an early supper; and you must sleep ... ...of five hundred dollars, at T ammany Hall, New Y ork, on the 10th April 1876. I hurried over my midday meal, and was early forth again. But, alas, as ... ...stide I was directed to leave the river, and follow a road that mounted on the left among the hills of Vivarais, the modern Ardeche; for I was now com... ...ade road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs. Every Sunday of my childhood I used to study the Her... ...the type of other novelties. A subtle atmosphere distin- guishes a town in England from a town in France, or even in Scotland. At Carlisle you can see... ...tion on the one hand, the febrile enthusiasm on the other, are almost equally difficult to understand in these quiet modern days, and with our easy mo... ..., that explained to me the spirit of the Southern Cov- enanters. Those who took to the hills for conscience’ sake in Scotland had all gloomy and bedev...

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... ! "# ! St. Ives, The ... ...on of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu... ...ered the days when I wore the coarse but honourable coat of a sol- dier; and remembered further back how many of the noble, the fair, and the gracious... ...to distract him, and he can spend all his hours ripening his love and preparing its manifesta- tions. I had been then some days upon a piece of carv- ... ...e, not far from Dunstable; you have a great part of Britain to get through; and for the first stages, I must leave you to your own luck and ingenuity.... ...xperience should serve the Corsican. I cannot understand it: it seems as though everything gener- ous in you must rise against that—domination.’ ‘And ... ...ned!’ says he. ‘Oh, sir, they will be soon taken,’ I replied: ‘it has been found in time. Good morning, sir!’ ‘Ye walk late, sir?’ he added. ‘Oh, sure... ...higher on the mountain, a tall old white-washed farmhouse stood among the trees, be- side a falling brook; beyond were rough hills of pasture. I betho... ...k and neck. At first I was abashed: she wore her beauty like an immediate halo of refinement; she discouraged me like an angel, or what I suspect to b...

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