Works Kidnapped David Balfour Author:Robert Louis Stevenson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DAVID BALFOUR BEING MEMOIRS OF HIS ADVENTURES AT HOME AND ABROAD The Second Part: In which are set forth his Misfortunes anent the Appin Murder; his Tr... more »oubles with Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity on the Bass Rock: Journey into Holland and France; and singular Relations with James More Druhmond or Macgregor. a Son of the notorious Rob Roy and his Daughter Catriona WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DEDICATION OHABLES BAXTEB, Writer to th Signet. My Deab Chables, 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's office, must expect his late reappearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am 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 Balf our, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend — if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins — if there be any of them left ; or to push (on a long holiday) so far afield as Gillane or the Bass. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the generations, and heshall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life. You are still—as when first I saw, as when I last addressed you—in the venerable city which I must always think of as my home. And I have come so far ; aud the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me ; and I see like a vision the y...« less