Robert Louis Stevenson
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Luke 2:8-20
A Christmas SermonRobert Louis Stevenson A strange temptation attends upon man: to keep his eye on pleasures, even when he will not share in them; to aim all his morals against them. This very year a lady (singular iconoclast!) proclaimed a crusade against dolls; and the racy sermon against lust is a feature of the Continue reading
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Filtering Through All Your Aversions
The Black ArrowA Tale of The Two RosesRobert Louis Stevenson “Let them be what they will, they can fight,” returned Lord Foxham. “Help me, then; and if between us we regain the maid, upon my knightly honour, she shall marry you!” Dick bent his knee before his prisoner; but he, leaping up lightly from the Continue reading
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Love is a Drug
The Suicide ClubRobert Louis Stevenson “But I was determined to meet you. When a woman has once so far forgotten herself as to make the first advance, she has long ago left behind her all considerations of petty pride.” Silas was overwhelmed by the size and attractions of his correspondent and the suddenness with which Continue reading
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Most Prolly Look Like Her
CatrionaRobert Louis Stevenson Her family, I remembered, had remarked on Catriona’s eyes and even named her for their colour; and she herself had been much in the habit to address me with a broad pronunciation, by way of a sniff, I supposed, at my rusticity. No doubt, besides, but she lived in the same house Continue reading
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I’ma Dress Up Like a Robber
KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson We fell in company at once, our ways lying together as far as to Kingairloch. As we went, he stopped and spoke with all the wayfarers and workers that we met or passed; and though of course I could not tell what they discoursed about, yet I judged Mr. Henderland must be Continue reading
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Pieces of Eight
First time repeating an author Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores–the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco. He had found Continue reading
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And So Am I
Flipping through the pages: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of the man Hyde; it was set there with a purpose all too plain and horrible. Written by the hand of Lanyon, what should it mean? A great Continue reading
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