146
XVII. THE MEMORIAL 156
XVIII. THE TEE'D BALL 169
XIX. I AM MUCH IN THE HANDS OF THE LADIES 179
XX. I CONTINUE TO MOVE IN GOOD SOCIETY 189
PART II.--FATHER AND DAUGHTER
XXI. THE VOYAGE INTO HOLLAND 203
XXII. HELVOETSLUYS 214
XXIII. TRAVELS IN HOLLAND 222
XXIV. FULL STORY OF A COPY OF HEINECCIUS 233
XXV. THE RETURN OF JAMES MORE 245
XXVI. THE THREESOME 252
XXVII. A TWOSOME 261
XXVIII. IN WHICH I AM LEFT ALONE 268
XXIX. WE MEET IN DUNKIRK 278
XXX. THE LETTER FROM THE SHIP 286
CONCLUSION 301
CATRIONA
BEING MEMOIRS OF THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF
DAVID BALFOUR
AT HOME AND ABROAD
IN WHICH ARE SET FORTH HIS MISFORTUNES ANENT THE APPIN MURDER, HIS
TROUBLES WITH LORD ADVOCATE GRANT: CAPTIVITY ON THE BASS ROCK, JOURNEY
INTO HOLLAND AND FRANCE, AND SINGULAR RELATIONS WITH JAMES MORE DRUMMOND
OR MACGREGOR, A SON OF THE NOTORIOUS ROB ROY, AND HIS DAUGHTER CATRIONA:
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, AND NOW SET FORTH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
_TO CHARLES BAXTER_
_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's office, must expect his late
re-appearance 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, hot-headed 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 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 he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and n
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