The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...Charles Scribner's sons, 1895 |
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already Amalu appeared asked began Bellairs better boat brig Brooks Island Butaritari cabin called Captain Trent Carthew chest copra cried Currency Lass dear deck Dijon Dodd dollars eyes face father fell fifty Flying Scud Frisco gentleman Goddedaal gone guess Hadden hand Harry Miller head heard Hemstead Honolulu hour hundred island Jim Pinkerton kind knew lady lagoon Latin Quarter lawyer Longhurst looked Loudon Mamie man's Midway Island mind Mission Street morning Muskegon Nares never night Norah Creina Norris once opium Paris passed perhaps Pinkerton poor pounds reef replied returned round sailor sails San Francisco scarce schooner seemed ship ship's stood suppose sure talk tell there's thing thought thousand told Tommy took turned Uncle Adam voice whaleboat whole word wreck
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Stran 67 - They had come from London, it appeared, a week before with nothing but great-coats and tooth-brushes. No baggage — there was the secret of existence. It was expensive, to be sure; for every time you had to comb your hair, a barber must be paid, and every time you changed your linen, one shirt must be bought and another thrown away; but anything was better (argued these young gentlemen) than to be slaves of haversacks. "A fellow has to get rid gradually of all material attachments; that was manhood"...
Stran 271 - The dull man is made, not by the nature, but by the degree of his immersion in a single business. And all the more if that be sedentary, uneventful, and ingloriously safe. More than one half of him will then remain unexercised and undeveloped ; the rest will be distended and deformed by over-nutrition, over-cerebration, and the heat of rooms. And I have often marvelled at the impudence of gentlemen, who describe and pass judgments on the life of man, in almost perfect ignorance of all its necessary...
Stran 113 - Reality was his romance; he gloried to be thus engaged; he wallowed in his business. Suppose a man to dig up a galleon on the Coromandel coast, his rakish schooner keeping the while an offing under easy sail, and he, by the blaze of a great fire of wreckwood, to measure ingots by the bucketful on the uproarious beach...
Stran 496 - We had long been at once attracted and repelled by that very modern form of the police novel or mystery story, which consists in beginning your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end ; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties that attend its execution ; repelled by that appearance of insincerity and shallowness of tone, which seems its inevitable drawback. For the mind of the reader, always bent to pick up clews...
Stran 496 - Before we turned in, the scaffolding of the tale had been put together. But the question of treatment was as usual more obscure. We had long been at once attracted and repelled by that very modern form of the police novel or mystery story, which consists in beginning your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties that attend its execution; repelled by that appearance of insincerity and...
Stran 453 - So be it then," concluded Trent. "A stitch in time saves nine." They returned on deck ; Wicks cried the news to the Currency Lasses; the foretopsail was filled again, and the brig ran into the lagoon lively, the whaleboat dancing in her wake, and came to single anchor off Middle Brooks Island before eight. She was boarded by the castaways, breakfast was served, the baggage slung on board and piled in the waist, and all hands turned to upon the rigging. All day the work continued, the two crews rivalling...