Tales and Fantasies — Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales and Fantasies
Robert Louis StevensonTropikal Kitap
Tales and Fantasies
Robert Louis StevensonIn Which John Sows The Wind John Varey Nicholson was stupid yet stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction He was of a fat habit even from boyhood and inclined to a cheerful and cursory reading of the face of life and possibly this attitude of mind was the original cause of his misfortunes Beyond this hint philosophy is silent on his career and superstition steps in with the more ready explanation that he was detested of the gods His father that iron gentleman had long ago enthroned himself on the heights of the Disruption Principles What these are and in spite of their grim name they are quite innocent no array of terms would render thinkable to the merely English intelligence but to the Scot they often provenctuously nourishing and Mr Nicholson found in them the milk of lions
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Colettes was your only port You were very illsupplied The company was not recruited from the Senate or the Church though the Bar was very well represented on the only occasion on which I flew in the face of my countrys laws and taking my reputation in my hand penetrated into that grim supperhouse And Colettes frequenters thrillingly conscious of wrongdoing and lsquo that two handed engine the policeman at the door were perhaps inclined to somewhat feverish excess But the place was in no sense a very bad one and it is somewhat strange to me at this distance ofnbsp time how it had acquired its dangerous repute In precisely the same spirit as a man may debate a project to ascend the Matterhorn or to cross Africa John considered Alans proposal and greatly daring accepted it As he walked home the thoughts of this excursion out of the safe places of life into the wild and arduous stirred and struggled in his imagination with the image of Miss Mackenzie incongruous and yet kindred thoughts for did not each imply unusual tightening of the pegs of resolution did not each woo him forth and warn him back again into himself