《The Master of Ballantrae_ a winter's tal》作者： - Robert Louis Stevenson ..

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EVENTS DURINGTHIS MASTERS WANDERINGS. CHAPTER II. SUMMARY OF EVENTS continued CHAPTER III. THEMASTERS WANDERINGS. CHAPTER IV. PERSECUTIONS ENDURED BY MR. HENRY. CHAPTER V. ACCOUNT OFALL THAT PASSED ON THE NIGHT ON FEBRUARY CHAPTER VI. SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURING THE MASTERSSECOND ABSENCE. CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURE OF CHEVALIER BURKE IN INDIA. CHAPTER VIII. THE ENEMYIN THE HOUSE. CHAPTER IX. MR. MACKELLARS JOURNEY WITH THE MASTER. CHAPTER X. PASSAGES ATNEW YORK. CHAPTER XI. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER XII. THE JOURNEY IN THEWILDERNESS continued. This page copyright ?? 2000 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.comThe Master of Ballantrae A Winters Tale To Sir Percy Florence and Lady Shelley Here is a talewhich extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness ofcircumstance the writer began continued it and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes.Above all he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies thehall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer the problem of Mackellars homespun and how to shape it forsuperior flights these were his company on deck in many starreflecting harbours ran often inhis mind at sea to the tune of slatting canvas and were dismissed something of the suddeneston the approach of squalls. It is my hope that these surroundings of its manufacture may tosome degree find favour for my story with seafarers and sealovers like yourselves. And at leasthere is a dedication from a great way off: written by the loud shores of a subtropical islandnear upon ten thousand miles from Boscombe Chine and Manor: scenes which rise before me as Iwrite along with the faces and voices of my friends. Well I am for the sea once more nodoubt Sir Percy also. Let us make the signal B. R. D. R. L. S. WAIKIKI