[David Balfour, Second Part by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link book
David Balfour, Second Part

CHAPTER XIV
2/16

You take a high responsibility in this affair.
You are not like these ignorant, barbarous Highlanders, but know what the law is and the risks of those that break it." "I am no just exactly what ye would ca' an extremist for the law," says he, "at the best of times; but in this business I act with a good warranty." "What are you going to do with me ?" I asked.
"Nae harm," said he, "nae harm ava'.

Ye'll hae strong freens, I'm thinking.

Ye'll be richt eneuch yet." There began to fall a greyness on the face of the sea; little dabs of pink and like coals of slow fire came in the east; and at the same time the geese awakened, and began crying about the top of the Bass.

It is just the one crag of rock, as everybody knows, but great enough to carve a city from.

The sea was extremely little, but there went a hollow plowter round the base of it.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books