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246 KIDNAPPED. "I never asked you to," said I. "I am as ready as yourself." "Ready?" said he. "Ready," I repeated. "I am no blower and boaster like some that I could name. Come on!" And draw- ing my sword, I fell on guard as Alan himself had taught me. "David!" he cried. "Are ye daft? I cannae draw upon ye, David. It's fair murder." "That was your look-out when you insulted me," said I. "It's the truth!" cried Alan, and he stood for a moment, wringing his mouth in his hand like a man in sore perplexity. "It's the bare truth," he said, and drew his sword. But before I could touch his blade with mine, ha had thrown it from him and fallen to the ground. "Na, na," he kept saying, "na, na�I cannae, I cannae." At this the last of my anger oozed all out of me; and I found myself only sick, and sorry, and blank, and wondering at myself. I would have given the world to take back what I had said; but a word once spoken, who can re-capture it? I minded me of all Alan's kindness and courage in the past, how he had helped and cheered and borne with me in our evil days; and then recalled my own insults, and saw that I had lost for ever that doughty friend. At the same time, the sickness that hung upon me seemed to re- double, and the pang in my side was like a sword
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Fiction > Book editions > Kidnapped > (260) Page 246 |
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Balfour, David (Fictitious character) [Subject of text] |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1886 [Date published] Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 [Date/event in text] |
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Europe >
United Kingdom >
England >
Greater London >
London
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Children's literature Fiction First editions Scottish Adventure stories |
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Cassell & Company [Publisher] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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