David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad
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Writer to the Signet. My dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them ;and, my David having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company soffice, must expect his late reappearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations. 1am not without hope. There should be left in ...
MoreWriter to the Signet. My dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them ;and, my David having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company soffice, must expect his late reappearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations. 1am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect ;some long-legged, hotheaded youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago ;he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills,and Broughton, and Hope Park and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend -if it still be standing, and the Eiggafc Whins if there be any of them left ;or to push (on a long holiday) bo far afield as Gillane or theB
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