KIDNAPPED

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by Louis Rhead

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

I COME TO MY JOURNEY’S END

I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE

I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

I GO TO THE QUEEN’S FERRY

WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN’S FERRY

I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG “COVENANT” OF DYSART

THE ROUND-HOUSE

THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD

THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE

THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER

I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX”

THE LOSS OF THE BRIG

THE ISLET

THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL

THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN

THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX

TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE

THE HOUSE OF FEAR

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR

CLUNY’S CAGE

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER

THE QUARREL IN BALQUHIDDER

END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH

I COME TO MR. RANKEILLOR

I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE

I COME INTO MY KINGDOM

GOOD-BYE

TALES AND FANTASIES

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS
1905

THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON
CHAP.		PAGE
I.	IN WHICH JOHN SOWS THE WIND	1
II.	IN WHICH JOHN REAPS THE WHIRLWIND	10
III.	IN WHICH JOHN ENJOYS THE HARVEST HOME	18
IV.	THE SECOND SOWING	27
V.	THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN	35
VI.	THE HOUSE AT MURRAYFIELD	45
VII.	A TRAGI-COMEDY IN A CAB	63
VIII.	SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE UTILITY OF PASS-KEYS	78
IX.	IN WHICH MR. NICHOLSON ACCEPTS THE PRINCIPLE OF AN ALLOWANCE	95
THE BODY-SNATCHER		109
THE STORY OF A LIE
I.	INTRODUCES THE ADMIRAL	145
II.	A LETTER TO THE PAPERS	154
III.	IN THE ADMIRAL’S NAME	162
IV.	ESTHER ON THE FILIAL RELATION	172
V.	THE PRODIGAL FATHER MAKES HIS DEBUT AT HOME	178
VI.	THE PRODIGAL FATHER GOES ON FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH	189
VII.	THE ELOPEMENT	204
VIII.	BATTLE ROYAL	219
IX.	IN WHICH THE LIBERAL EDITOR RE-APPEARS AS ‘DEUS EX MACHINA’	233

UNDERWOODS

BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

NINTH EDITION

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1898

BOOK I.—In English
		PAGE
I.	Envoy—Go, little book	1
II.	A Song of the Road—The gauger walked	2
III.	The Canoe Speaks—On the great streams	4
IV.	It is the season	7
V.	The House Beautiful—A naked house, a naked moor	9
VI.	A Visit from the Sea—Far from the loud sea beaches	12
VII.	To a Gardener—Friend, in my mountain-side demesne	14
VIII.	To Minnie—A picture frame for you to fill	16
IX.	To K. de M.—A lover of the moorland bare	17
X.	To N. V. de G. S.—The unfathomable sea	19
XI.	To Will. H. Low—Youth now flees	21
XII.	To Mrs. Will. H. Low—Even in the bluest noonday of July	24
XIII.	To H. F. Brown—I sit and wait	26
XIV.	To Andrew Lang—Dear Andrew	29
XV.	Et tu in Arcadia vixisti—In ancient tales, O friend	31
XVI.	To W. E. Henley—The year runs through her phases	36
XVII.	Henry James—Who comes to-night	38
XVIII.	The Mirror Speaks—Where the bells	39
XIX.	Katharine—We see you as we see a face	41
XX.	To F. J. S.—I read, dear friend	42
XXI.	Requiem—Under the wide and starry sky	43
XXII.	The Celestial Surgeon—If I have faltered	44
XXIII.	Our Lady of the Snows—Out of the sun	45
XXIV.	Not yet, my soul	50
XXV.	It is not yours, O mother, to complain	53
XXVI.	The Sick Child—O mother, lay your hand on my brow	56
XXVII.	In Memoriam F. A. S.—Yet, O stricken heart	58
XXVIII.	To my Father—Peace and her huge invasion	60
XXIX.	In the States—With half a heart	62
XXX.	A Portrait—I am a kind of farthing dip	63
XXXI.	Sing clearlier, Muse	65
XXXII.	A Camp—The bed was made	66
XXXIII.	The Country of the Camisards—We travelled in the print of olden wars	67
XXXIV.	Skerryvore—For love of lovely words	68
XXXV.	Skerryvore: The Parallel—Here all is sunny	69
XXXVI.	My house, I say	70
XXXVII.	My body which my dungeon is	71
XXXVIII.	Say not of me that weakly I declined	73
BOOK II.—In Scots
I.	The Maker to Posterity—Far ’yont amang the years to be	77
II.	Ille Terrarum—Frae nirly, nippin’, Eas’lan’ breeze	80
III.	When aince Aprile has fairly come	85
IV.	A Mile an’ a Bittock	87
V.	A Lowden Sabbath Morn—The clinkum-clank o’ Sabbath bells	89
VI.	The Spaewife—O, I wad like to ken	98
VII.	The Blast—1875—It’s rainin’. Weet’s the gairden sod	100
VIII.	The Counterblast—1886—My bonny man, the warld, it’s true	103
IX.	The Counterblast Ironical—It’s strange that God should fash to frame	108
X.	Their Laureate to an Academy Class Dinner Club—Dear Thamson class, whaure’er I gang	110
XI.	Embro Hie Kirk—The Lord Himsel’ in former days	114
XII.	The Scotsman’s Return from Abroad—In mony a foreign pairt I’ve been	118
XIII.	Late in the nicht	125
XIV.	My Conscience!—Of a’ the ills that flesh can fear	130
XV.	To Doctor John Brown—By Lyne and Tyne, by Thames and Tees	133
XVI.	It’s an owercome sooth for age an’ youth	138

NEW POEMS
AND VARIANT READINGS

BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1918

	PAGE
PRAYER	1
LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ	2
THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE	2
MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACKBIRD SINGS	3
I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR	4
ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER	6
DEDICATION	7
THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD RECEIPTS	8
PRELUDE	10
THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT	11
TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS	11
THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?	13
ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND	14
AFTER READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”	15
I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT	15
SPRING SONG	16
THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME	16
YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW	17
LOVE’S VICISSITUDES	18
DUDDINGSTONE	18
STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS	20
AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC	20
TO SYDNEY	21
HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL	23
O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY	24
APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER	25
TO MARCUS	26
TO OTTILIE	27
THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY	28
THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES	29
A VALENTINE’S SONG	31
HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES	34
SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO	36
TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE	37
TO MADAME GARSCHINE	39
MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA	39
FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS	40
LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL	41
I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME KIN	42
I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE	44
VOLUNTARY	45
ON NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE	47
IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING	47
DEATH, TO THE DEAD FOR EVERMORE	48
TO CHARLES BAXTER	49
I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH	52
LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?	53
SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH	53
AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL NIGHT LONG	53
STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN	55
THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART	56
MAN SAILS THE DEEP AWHILE	57
THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR	58
NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS	59
WHAT MAN MAY LEARN, WHAT MAN MAY DO	60
SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN	61
KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ	62
IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM	63
AN ENGLISH BREEZE	65
AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG	66
THE PIPER	67
TO MRS. MACMARLAND	58
TO MISS CORNISH	69
TALES OF ARABIA	71
BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF MIEN	72
STILL I LOVE TO RHYME	73
LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE	74
FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING	75
COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME	76
SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE	77
ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES”	78
FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL	80
HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY!	80
LO, NOW, MY GUEST	81
SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR	81
AD SE IPSUM	82
BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME	82
GO, LITTLE BOOK—THE ANCIENT PHRASE	83
MY LOVE WAS WARM	84
DEDICATORY POEM FOR “UNDERWOODS”	85
FAREWELL	86
THE FAR-FARERS	87
COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU	87
HOME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS	88
EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO	88
FAIR ISLE AT SEA	89
LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY	89
I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE	90
AT LAST SHE COMES	90
MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE	90
FIXED IS THE DOOM	91
MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS	92
THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD	93
SPRING CAROL	94
TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER	95
WHEN THE SUN COMES AFTER RAIN	96
LATE, O MILLER	97
TO FRIENDS AT HOME	97
I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED	98
TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED	98
VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING POEM	99
I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS	100
SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD	103
GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART	104
OVER THE LAND IS APRIL	105
LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START	106
COMIC, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY	106
IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE	107
NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR	107
TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE	108
THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN	110
TO ROSABELLE	111
NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE	112
THE BOUR-TREE DEN	114
SONNETS	118
FRAGMENTS	123
AIR OF DIABELLI’S	128
EPITAPHIUM EROTII	132
DE M. ANTONIO	133
AD MAGISTRUM LUDI	133
AD NEPOTEM	134
IN CHARIDEMUM	135
DE LIGURRA	135
IN LUPUM	136
AD QUINTILIANUM	137
DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS	137
AD MARTIALEM	139
IN MAXIMUM	139
AD OLUM	140
DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ	140
DE EROTIO PUELLA	141
AD PISCATOREM	141

KIDNAPPED

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by Louis Rhead

TALES AND FANTASIES

CONTENTS

UNDERWOODS

CONTENTS

NEW POEMS
AND VARIANT READINGS

CONTENTS

KIDNAPPED

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrated by Louis Rhead

TALES AND FANTASIES

CONTENTS

UNDERWOODS

CONTENTS

NEW POEMS AND VARIANT READINGS

CONTENTS

NEW POEMS
AND VARIANT READINGS