Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

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CHAPTER X THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE ut now our time of truce was come to an end. Those on deck had w ...

let fall; and after that, silence again. I do not know if I was what you call afraid; but my heart beat ...

I told him I had winged one, and thought it was the captain. “And I’ve settled two,” says he. “No, the ...

gave a shriek and shot him in the midst of the body. He gave the most horrible, ugly groan and fell ...

But I had not time to be of help. The wrestler dropped at last; and Alan, leaping back to get his distance, ...

still behind them; and we heard them tumble one upon another into the forecastle, and clap-to the ...

their rhymes; and in good prose talk, Alan always did me more than justice. In the meanwhile, I was inn ...

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CHAPTER XI THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER lan and I sat down to breakfast about six of the clock. The floor was co ...

“I had them,” says he, “from my father, Duncan Stewart; and now give ye one of them to be a keepsake ...

his suit and brush away the stains, with such care and labour as I supposed to have been only u ...

ye seek to affront me?” “Captain,” says Alan, “I doubt your word is a breakable. Last night ye hag ...

on the sea-side; and sixty, if ye put me in the Linnhe Loch.” “But see, sir, where we lie, we are but a ...

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CHAPTER XII I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX” efore we had done cleaning out the round-house, a breeze sprang up ...

Meanwhile, the early part of the day, before the swell came up, was very pleasant; sailing, as we were, ...

It was I that showed the example, telling him all my misfortune; which he heard with great good-nature. O ...

behind him did the same; and there they were on the street, never a penny the better for their pains. Some ...

whistle, I have seen, with these eyes of mine, buying butter in the market-place, and taking it home ...