Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:โand now I like ye better!
Robert Louis StevensonWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis StevensonA horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
Robert Louis StevensonIt was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
Robert Louis Stevenson