Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

“Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin’ yet? And are your drums a-beatin’ yet?” And it c ...

At this the last of my anger oozed all out of me; and I found myself only sick, and sorry, and blank, an ...

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“Ay,” said I, “I can be doing this way;” and I pressed his arm with my hand. Again he came near so ...

where there’s bound to be houses. My poor man, will ye no be better on my back?” “O, Alan,” says I, “a ...

CHAPTER XXV IN BALQUHIDDER t the door of the first house we came to, Alan knocked, which was of no ver ...

house to visit me. I need not say if I was pleased to see him; Mrs. Maclaren, our hostess, thought noth ...

Duncan; and having thus set himself (as he would have thought) in a proper light, came to my bedside and b ...

“I did not know ye were in my country, sir,” says Robin. “It sticks in my mind that I am in the c ...

possession, and to set before his guests a mutton-ham and a bottle of that drink which they call Athole br ...

variations from the beginning, he worked them throughout to so new a purpose, with such ingenuity and sen ...

“Robin Oig,” he said, when it was done, “ye are a great piper. I am not fit to blow in the same kingd ...

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CHAPTER XXVI END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH he month, as I have said, was not yet out, but it was alre ...

crooked water, we might cast our bonnets in the air.” In Allan Water, near by where it falls into the Fo ...

forfeited. “This’ll never do,” said Alan. “This’ll never, never do for us, David.” And without another word, ...

can tell no tales; but if we pass the firth, there’s the boat on the wrong side— somebody must have br ...

maybe get us that boat.” “If it were the other way about, it would be liker it,” said I. “That’s all th ...

“He would be better riding,” says she. “And where could I get a horse to him?” cried Alan, turning ...

together. Alan in high good humour at the furthering of his schemes, and I in bitter dudgeon at being c ...