Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

CHAPTER XV THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL he Ross of Mull, which I had now got upo ...

must be the lad with the silver button. “Why, yes!” said I, in some wonder. “Well, then,” said the old ...

bound isle, there were few to make remarks and fewer to tell tales. They seemed in great poverty; w ...

shillings. But Maclean had taken his share of the punch, and vowed that no gentleman should leave his tabl ...

country only a few pence; and, lastly, the knife, which was really a dagger, it was against the law for him to c ...

He then began to question me cunningly, where I came from, whether I was rich, whether I could chan ...

Then I told him that, sure enough, I had a pistol in my pocket as well as he, and if he did not stri ...

myself, one after the other, were the two worst men I met with in the Highlands. At Torosay, on the Soun ...

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CHAPTER XVI THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN here is a regular ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline ...

We put the ferry-boat alongside, and the exiles leaned over the bulwarks, weeping and reaching out their hands to ...

Corran and another at Balachulish, and then ask my way to the house of James of the Glens, at Aucharn in Duror ...

observed many of them to bring out their mulls and share a pinch of snuff with him. I told him as ...

Christian, but humanly fine. Even Alan Breck, by all that I hear, is a chield to be respected. There’s m ...

truth, I was overjoyed; for I had no great desire for John of the Claymore, and since my double misadventure ...

“It’s a vow I took,” says he. “I took a vow upon me that I wouldnae carry it. Doubtless it’s ...

should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among ...

CHAPTER XVII THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX he next day Mr. Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his ow ...

of his promise to the catechist) would fain have carried me on to Balachulish; but as this was to take me ...

He stopped and looked at me, as I thought, a little oddly; and then, turning to the lawyer, “Mungo,” said h ...