Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bøker - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781490904290 - 2. juli 2013
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Catriona

The 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorning, I was like a beggar-man by the wayside, clad in rags, brought down to my last shillings, my companion a condemned traitor, a price set on my own head for a crime with the news of which the country rang. To-day I was served heir to my position in life, a landed laird, a bank porter by me carrying my gold, recommendations in my pocket, and (in the words of the saying) the ball directly at my foot. There were two circumstances that served me as ballast to so much sail. The first was the very difficult and deadly business I had still to handle; the second, the place that I was in. The tall, black city, and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk, made a new world for me, after the moorland braes, the sea-sands and the still country-sides that I had frequented up to then. The throng of the citizens in particular abashed me.

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Utgitt 2. juli 2013
ISBN13 9781490904290
Utgivere CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Antall sider 112
Mål 152 × 229 × 6 mm   ·   158 g
Språk Engelsk  

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