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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Boys -- FictionTreasure troves -- FictionParanormal fictionGreat Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction

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  1. 01Front matter~2 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I. EILEAN AROS.~16 min
  3. 03CHAPTER II. WHAT THE WRECK HAD BROUGHT TO AROS. — part 1~25 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II. WHAT THE WRECK HAD BROUGHT TO AROS. — part 2~4 min
  5. 05CHAPTER III. LAND AND SEA IN SANDAG BAY.~25 min
  6. 06CHAPTER IV. THE GALE. — part 1~24 min
  7. 07CHAPTER IV. THE GALE. — part 2~2 min
  8. 08CHAPTER V. A MAN OUT OF THE SEA. — part 1~25 min
  9. 09CHAPTER V. A MAN OUT OF THE SEA. — part 2~5 min
  10. 10CHAPTER I. THE PLAIN AND THE STARS.~22 min
  11. 11CHAPTER II. THE PARSON’S MARJORY. — part 1~25 min
  12. 12CHAPTER II. THE PARSON’S MARJORY. — part 2~4 min
  13. 13CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 1~25 min
  14. 14CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 2~25 min
  15. 15CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 3~25 min
  16. 16CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 4~25 min
  17. 17CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 5~25 min
  18. 18CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 6~25 min
  19. 19CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 7~24 min
  20. 20CHAPTER III. DEATH — part 8~24 min
  21. 21CHAPTER I. BY THE DYING MOUNTEBANK.~9 min
  22. 22CHAPTER II. MORNING TALK~14 min
  23. 23CHAPTER III. THE ADOPTION.~17 min
  24. 24CHAPTER IV. THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER.~21 min
  25. 25CHAPTER V. TREASURE TROVE. — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER V. TREASURE TROVE. — part 2~2 min
  27. 27CHAPTER VI. A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, IN TWO PARTS.~22 min
  28. 28CHAPTER VII. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ.~19 min
  29. 29CHAPTER VIII. THE WAGES OF PHILOSOPHY.~8 min

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It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart. I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did, from an unmixed lowland stock. But an uncle of mine, Gordon Darnaway, after a poor, rough youth, and some years at sea, had married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros, the sea-girt farm, had remained in his possession. It brought him in nothing but the means of life, as I was well aware; but he was a man whom ill-fortune had pursued; he feared, cumbered as he was with the young child, to make a fresh adventure upon life; and remained in Aros, biting his nails at destiny. Years passed over his head in that isolation, and brought neither help nor contentment. Meantime our family was dying out in the lowlands; there is little luck for any of that race; and perhaps my father was the luckiest of all, for not only was he one of the last to die, but he left a son to his name and a little money to support it. I was a student of Edinburgh University, living well enough at my own charges, …

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