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  Captain Hand''s compliments, and he says you must get rid of these niggers at once, and he will help you to do it


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id: 14535
title: A Christmas Sermon
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  sceptic, a man whose life had been one long lesson in human incredulity, man has lived to a fair age, he bears his marks of service. flaw, a weakness, that unfits him for the duties of life, that spoils Trying to be kind and honest will require all his thoughts; a mortified deal of cheerfulness will be required in judging life, and a great deal life: Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no It was the moral man, the Pharisee, whom Christ could not my duty to my neighbour is much more nearly expressed by saying that In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness;--it may The faith which sustained him in his life-long blindness and life-long disappointment will scarce even be required in My task accomplished and the long day done,


id: 19750
title: The Waif Woman
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  The goodman of that house was called Finnward Keelfarer, and his wife Aud "Woman," said Thorgunna, "I am no merchant." And she closed the chest Now Thorgunna opened the second chest and took out her bedding--sheets of At that Aud''s two ears grew hot as her cheeks; and she took Thorgunna at Woman or the Wind Wife; to her face it must always be Thorgunna. When she was back in bed, the word of Thorgunna came to her mind, that Day came, and Aud must rise; but she went about the house like "That is a sick wife," said Finnward, "Her weird has come on her." "You are to consider that the woman died in my house," says Finnward, When they came to the house, Aud had the two chests to her own bed-place, "Woman!" cried Finnward, "these are the bed-sheets of Thorgunna--these Finnward lay down again in the bed between Thorgunna''s sheets, and


id: 27780
title: Treasure Island
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  "Well," said he, "my mate Bill would be called the captain, as like as "Jim," he said, at length, "you saw that seafaring man to-day?" "You are at the ''Admiral Benbow,'' Black Hill Cove, my good man," said I. seen the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man Pew, and I thought I "That''s a good man, captain," said the doctor. "Never knew good to come of it yet," the captain said to Doctor Livesey. "Captain," said the doctor, "with your permission, that''s Silver. "Most likely Trelawney''s own men," said the doctor; "those he picked up "Hands off, if you like, John Silver," said the other. "Why, Silver," said the captain, "if you had pleased to be an honest man "Well," said I, "I''ve come aboard to take possession of this ship, Mr. Hands, and you''ll please regard me as your captain until further


id: 14133
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  "I am little likely to forget it," said Stewart. "I would think shame to be otherwise the first day of my fortune," said "It''s a different way of thinking, I suppose," said I; "I was brought up help," I said; for I judged from the look of the man he would think the murder; your long course of secresy--my good young man!" said Mr. Symon, "I think here is a great deal of work, Mr. Balfour," said she. "This is my day for discoveries, I think," said I, "for I always thought "Ay, Alan, man, the day, sure enough," said I. thinking; and I would like ill to come to my hands wi'' the man. "There," said Miss Grant to me, "run out by with ye, like a good bairn. "I do not know what _you_ think, Catriona," said I, when I was a little "I am caring less and less about this man James," said Alan.

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  David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona


id: 42
title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  "And you never asked about the--place with the door?" said Mr. Utterson. Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man "I will see, Mr. Utterson," said Poole, admitting the visitor, as "I saw Mr. Hyde go in by the old dissecting-room door, Poole," he "Good-night, Mr. Utterson." And the lawyer set out homeward with a "Jekyll," said Utterson, "you know me: I am a man to be trusted. "And now," said Mr. Utterson, as soon as Poole had left them, "you "Mr. Utterson," said the man, "there is something wrong." "Come," said the lawyer, "I see you have some good reason, Poole; "Thank you, sir," said Poole, with a note of something like "Sir," he said, looking Mr. Utterson in the eyes, "was that my "Ah, that''s not Jekyll''s voice--it''s Hyde''s!" cried Utterson. was never a day when, if you had said to me, ''Jekyll, my life, my


id: 344
title: The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  day of wind and a high spring, I have heard the Roost roaring, like a ''It will be a great feesh,'' said the old man, returning to his oars; and she looked away, and said never a word; but I thought I saw that her human-hearted man that my misguided uncle now pored and gloated like a ''Silence, man,'' said I, ''respect your God in words, if not in action. times; but Will saw one thing plainly, that not a man returned. head like clouds, and hear the great water-hills making music over you ''Thousands of people,'' said the young man, ''live and die like you, and ''They are worlds like ours,'' said the young man. of a man''s own life to himself--things seen, words heard, looks ''A time comes for all men, Master Will,'' replied the doctor, ''when the ''I should like to have seen them turning into dust,'' said Jean-Marie.


id: 343
title: Fables
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  "Good-morning, Cap''n," said the first, with a man-o''-war salute, and a "I thought it would come to that," said the man. And then the two Kings looked at each other, and said, "The thing may "This is a marvellous thing to hear," said the man; "and if you are "I am fearful to see you, my son," said the man. "We shall see that," said the Poor Thing; "for in my thought it is a good "In my thought," said the man, "one thing is as good as another in this "I will give it to your father," said the man; "and he can make a kirk "Thought for the morrow, that I have," said the King''s daughter; "but "Nurse," said the King''s daughter, "thought is come upon me for the "How comes it, crone," said the King''s daughter, "that you waver like a


id: 281
title: Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DOCTOR HYDE OF HONOLULU hundred years after the death of Damien, there will appear a man charged "Dear Brother,--In answer to your inquires about Father Damien, I can simple truth is, he was a coarse, dirty man, headstrong and bigoted. visited the scene of Damien''s life and death. Damiens; a man may conceive his duty more narrowly, he may love his coarse, dirty man"; these were your own words; and you may think it day when Damien of Molokai shall be named a Saint, it will be in virtue Father Damien which served only to publish the weakness of that noble since Damien was dead, and far better than when he was there alone and Damien _was not a pure man in his relations with women_, _etc._ Damien did, is my father, and the father of the man in the Apia bar, and


id: 848
title: The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  "Nay," said Dick, "every man that follows shall have sixpence a day, and "Master Dick," said Bennet, "come hither, and pull me a good pull upon "Come, Hatch," said Dick, "respect his stone-blind eyes. Half an hour later, Sir Daniel gave Dick the letter, and bade him speed "And how came ye with Sir Daniel, Master Matcham?" pursued Dick. marriage is like death, it comes to all," said Dick, with "I think I be a man of wood, indeed," said Dick, "to trudge afoot the "Nay," said Matcham, "I would ''a'' saved us both, good Dick, for I can "Well, lad," returned Dick, taking the hand which was offered him, "good "Sir Daniel hath a wise tongue," said Hatch, aside, to Dick. "Nay, Sir Daniel," said Dick, "but where the master biddeth there will "They began to come, Master Dick," said Greensheve, "about the time ye


id: 5272
title: The Sea Fogs
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  Robert Louis Stevenson first came to California in 1879 for the never have seen the glory of "the sea fogs." It would have been better sea fog of the Pacific, seen from above. When the beauty of the fog first got hold of me, I wondered whether any --the soft pale grey of the sea fog. feeling about the sea fogs. Curiously, the last great fog effect that I have seen was almost the extreme south, a little hill of fog arose against the sky above the and I saw that in every cove along the line of mountains the fog was The fog, sunny white in the sunshine, was pouring over into through all the gaps the fog was pouring over, like an ocean into the the early morning, a little white lakelet of fog would be seen far down Here Ends No. One the Western Classics Being The Sea Fogs by Robert


id: 536
title: A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  these white men on the beach are not great chiefs?" is a common question, of Apia and hoisted the German war-flag over Mulinuu; the American consul this visit, the German war-ship _Adler_ followed at her heels; and to a place where was a German man-of-war. hands of Tamasese-Brandeis; a German was secured upon the bench; and the Day came, and Brandeis and his war-party were already long the German man-of-war is about to go together with a Samoan fleet for the sailors mounting guard on Tamasese''s battlements; the German war-ship lay followed them in boats; the German sailors and their war-flag had On the 22nd, a new German war-ship, the _Eber_, of tragic memory, came to other nation." "But if a German man-of-war does it?" asked Knappe.--"We "The two German war-ships now in Samoa are here for the protection of arrived on the morrow] "the German war-ships will continue to do against


id: 535
title: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  of black bread and white, like Father Adam, for myself and donkey, only Scottish-looking man; the mother followed, all in her Sunday''s best, with ''My man knows nothing,'' she said, with an angry nod; ''he is like the old man, who came a little way with me in the rain to put me safely on handsome, silent, dark old woman, clothed and hooded in black like a nun. gone to God. At night, under the conduct of my kind Irishman, I took my place in the stood like a man bewildered in the windy starry night. hill air and crossing all the green valley, sounded pleasant to my ear, If I deceived this good old man, in the like manner I would Thus, talking like Christian and Faithful by the way, he and I came down people turned round to have a second look, or came out of their houses,


id: 10761
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  Great as Stevenson was as a writer, he was still greater as a Man. So [Note 1: His name was originally Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. paradox that any place is good enough to live a life in, while it is addressed Johnson at Oxford in these words: "Young man, ply your book [Note 9: _Lord Macaulay may escape from school honours._ Stevenson [Note 26: _Young men who work themselves into a decline._ Compare the anything like a general view of life''s possibilities and issues; nor [Note 23: _All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have Natural talk, like ploughing, should turn up a large surface of life, active life, loved a good talk. [Note 1: _Sir, we had a good talk_. _Life of Stevenson_, I, 214.) When Symonds first read the essay _Talk Stevenson liked this word. [Note 17: _Man that wearies in well-doing.

title:
  Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps


id: 35546
title: A Lowden Sabbath Morn
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  [Illustration: THE PRAYER p. First Illustrated Edition published 1898, and a Second Impression in ILLUSTRATOR''S NOTE I am not certain of the particular parish Stevenson had in his mind when _The lasses, clean frae tap to taes, _The lasses, clean frae tap to taes, _An'' noo to face the kirkward mile: _An'' noo to face the kirkward mile: the bells frae nearer clang; the bells frae nearer clang; The mither''s brithers, dacent men! The mither''s brithers, dacent men! _Thus, on the day o'' solemn things, _Thus, on the day o'' solemn things, _But noo the bell is ringin'' in; _But noo the bell is ringin'' in; The faithfü''_ French, _an'' twa-three mair; The faithfü''_ French, _an'' twa-three mair; _The braw words rumm''le ower his heid, _The braw words rumm''le ower his heid, _And in their restin'' graves, the deid _And in their restin'' graves, the deid Works by Robert Louis Stevenson


