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PONT-SUR-SAMBRE :
WE ARE PEDLARS. -
The Cigarette returned with good news. There
were beds to be had some ten minutes' walk
from where we were, at a place called Pont.
We stowed the canoes in a granary, and asked
among the children for a guide. The circle at
once widened round us, and our offers of reward
were received in dispiriting silence. We were
plainly a pair of Bluebeards to the children ;
they might speak to us in public places, and
w^here they had the advantage of numbers ; but
it was another thing to venture off alone with
two uncouth and legendary characters, who had
dropped from the clouds upon their hamlet this
quiet afternoon, sashed and beknived, and with a
WE ARE PEDLARS. -
The Cigarette returned with good news. There
were beds to be had some ten minutes' walk
from where we were, at a place called Pont.
We stowed the canoes in a granary, and asked
among the children for a guide. The circle at
once widened round us, and our offers of reward
were received in dispiriting silence. We were
plainly a pair of Bluebeards to the children ;
they might speak to us in public places, and
w^here they had the advantage of numbers ; but
it was another thing to venture off alone with
two uncouth and legendary characters, who had
dropped from the clouds upon their hamlet this
quiet afternoon, sashed and beknived, and with a
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Non-Fiction > Books > Inland voyage > (73) Page 51 |
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Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/79806175 |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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Dates / events: |
1878 [Date published] |
Places: |
Europe >
Belgium >
Flanders >
Antwerpen province >
Antwerp
(inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > France > Île-de-France > Val-d'Oise > Cergy-Pontois (inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published] |
Subject / content: |
Description Travel Canoes |
Person / organisation: |
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Illustrator] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Subject of text] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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