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Catriona

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- FictionAdventure stories

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  1. 01Front matter~4 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I. A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK~21 min
  3. 03CHAPTER II. THE HIGHLAND WRITER~19 min
  4. 04CHAPTER III. I GO TO PILRIG~17 min
  5. 05CHAPTER IV. LORD ADVOCATE PRESTONGRANGE~24 min
  6. 06CHAPTER V. IN THE ADVOCATE’S HOUSE~16 min
  7. 07CHAPTER VI. UMQUILE THE MASTER OF LOVAT~16 min
  8. 08CHAPTER VII. I MAKE A FAULT IN HONOUR — part 1~25 min
  9. 09CHAPTER VII. I MAKE A FAULT IN HONOUR — part 2~2 min
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII. THE BRAVO~20 min
  11. 11CHAPTER IX. THE HEATHER ON FIRE~17 min
  12. 12CHAPTER X. THE RED-HEADED MAN~22 min
  13. 13CHAPTER XI. THE WOOD BY SILVERMILLS~16 min
  14. 14CHAPTER XII. ON THE MARCH AGAIN WITH ALAN~19 min
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII. GILLANE SANDS~22 min
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV. THE BASS~20 min
  17. 17CHAPTER XV. BLACK ANDIE’S TALE OF TOD LAPRAIK — part 1~25 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XV. BLACK ANDIE’S TALE OF TOD LAPRAIK — part 2~1 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XVI. THE MISSING WITNESS~22 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XVII. THE MEMORIAL — part 1~25 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XVII. THE MEMORIAL — part 2~3 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XVIII. THE TEE’D BALL~22 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XIX. I AM MUCH IN THE HANDS OF THE LADIES~22 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XX. I CONTINUE TO MOVE IN GOOD SOCIETY~24 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XXI. THE VOYAGE INTO HOLLAND — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XXI. THE VOYAGE INTO HOLLAND — part 2~2 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XXII. HELVOETSLUYS~19 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XXIII. TRAVELS IN HOLLAND~24 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XXIV. FULL STORY OF A COPY OF HEINECCIUS — part 1~25 min
  30. 30CHAPTER XXIV. FULL STORY OF A COPY OF HEINECCIUS — part 2~2 min

A few words to begin

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. Rankeillor’s son was short and small in the girth; his clothes scarce held on me; and it was plain I was ill qualified to strut in the front of a bank-porter. It was plain, if I did so, I should but set folk laughing, and (what was worse in my case) set them asking questions.…

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