Lay Morals, and Other Papers
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In our long voyage on the yacht Casco, we visited many islands; I believe on every one we found the scourge of leprosy. In the Marquesas there was a regular leper settlement, though the persons living there seemed free to wander where they wished, fishing on the beach, or visiting friends in the villages. I remember one afternoon, at Anaho, when my husband and I, tired after a long quest for shells, sat down on the sand to rest awhile, a native man stepped out from under some cocoanut trees, regarding us hesitatingly as though fearful of intruding. My husband waved an invitation to the strange...
Chapters (58)
- LAY MORALS
- PREFACE BY MRS. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [0]
- LAY MORALS
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- FATHER DAMIEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU
- THE PENTLAND RISING a page of history 1666
- CHAPTER I—THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT
- CHAPTER II—THE BEGINNING
- CHAPTER III—THE MARCH OF THE REBELS
- CHAPTER IV—RULLION GREEN
- CHAPTER V—A RECORD OF BLOOD
- THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW
- COLLEGE PAPERS
- CHAPTER I—EDINBURGH STUDENTS IN 1824
- CHAPTER II—THE MODERN STUDENT CONSIDERED GENERALLY
- CHAPTER III—DEBATING SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER IV—THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBRELLAS [151]
- CHAPTER V—THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOMENCLATURE
- CRITICISMS
- CHAPTER I—LORD LYTTON’S ‘FABLES IN SONG’
- CHAPTER II—SALVINI’S MACBETH
- CHAPTER III—BAGSTER’S ‘PILGRIM’S PROGRESS’
- SKETCHES
- I. THE SATIRIST
- II. NUITS BLANCHES
- III. THE WREATH OF IMMORTELLES
- IV. NURSES
- V. A CHARACTER
- THE GREAT NORTH ROAD
- CHAPTER I—NANCE AT THE ‘GREEN DRAGON’
- CHAPTER II—IN WHICH MR. ARCHER IS INSTALLED
- CHAPTER III—JONATHAN HOLDAWAY
- CHAPTER IV—MINGLING THREADS
- CHAPTER V—LIFE IN THE CASTLE
- CHAPTER VI—THE BAD HALF-CROWN
- CHAPTER VII—THE BLEACHING-GREEN
- CHAPTER VIII—THE MAIL GUARD
- THE YOUNG CHEVALIER
- PROLOGUE—THE WINE-SELLER’S WIFE
- CHAPTER I—THE PRINCE
- HEATHERCAT
- CHAPTER I—TRAQUAIRS OF MONTROYMONT
- CHAPTER II—FRANCIE
- CHAPTER III—THE HILL-END OF DRUMLOWE
- Footnotes:
- p. iv
- p. v
- p. vi
- p. vii
- p. viii
- p. ix
- p. x
- p. xi
- p. xiii
- p. xiv
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