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It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart.*****I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did, from an unmixed lowland stock. But an uncle of mine, Gordon Darnaway, after a poor, rough youth, and some years at sea, had married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros, the sea-girt farm, had remained in his possession. It brought him in nothing but the means of life, as I was well aware; but he was a man whom ill-fortune had pursued; he feared, cumbered as he was with the young child, to make a fresh adventure upon life; and remained in Aros, biting his nails at destiny. Years passed over his head in that isolation, and brought neither help nor contentment. -excerpt from "The Merry Men and other Tales and Fables"

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9781604508413
• ISBN: 9781604508413
• ID: 08774212
• Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLC
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 156 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. October 2010

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