Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The next time he came to see me, I was lying betwixt sleep and waking, my eyes wide open in the darkn ...

“It seems it is the talk that you can understand,” said Mr. Riach, looking him steadily in the face. “Mr. ...

judgment, when I had drawn away from them at the Ferry pier, as though they had been unclean beasts. ...

parlour, which could whistle “The North Countrie;” all else had been blotted out in these years of hard ...

I’ll tell you that. There’s many a man hoeing tobacco over-seas that should be mounting his horse at h ...

CHAPTER VIII THE ROUND-HOUSE ne night, about eleven o’clock, a man of Mr. Riach’s watch (which was on deck) cam ...

dark and knew nothing of head-winds, I thought we might be half-way or more across the Atlantic. And indeed ...

Mr. Shuan was on his feet in a trice; he still looked dazed, but he meant murder, ay, and would have done ...

second with a kind of frightened look; and then Hoseason walked up to his chief officer, took him by ...

serving him. I was pretty sure from the first that he had no clear mind of what he had done, and o ...

...

CHAPTER IX THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD ore than a week went by, in which the ill-luck that had hit ...

The captain was in the right of it. We had run down a boat in the fog, and she had parted in the midst and ...

for the first time, he looked as cool as I did. He was smallish in stature, but well set and as nimble ...

“So?” said the gentleman in the fine coat: “are ye of the honest party?” (meaning, Was he a ...

for which King George is looking. Now, sir, ye seem to me to be a man that understands things: bring ...

was of it) not serving well for their true course. Some of the hands were still hearkening for breakers; bu ...

I told him I would do as he wished, though indeed I had scarce breath to speak with; and upon that he ...

“David,” said he—“for I cannae bring to mind the name of your landed estate, and so will make so ...

*Reaching. Thereupon he stood up in the midst with his face to the door, and drawing his great ...