[St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookSt. Ives CHAPTER IX--THREE IS COMPANY, AND FOUR NONE 23/24
See and guide it with all the sense that you possess.' 'And here, Mr.St.Ives,' said Flora, speaking for the first time, 'is a plaid which you will find quite necessary on so rough a journey.
I hope you will take it from the hands of a Scotch friend,' she added, and her voice trembled. 'Genuine holly: I cut it myself,' said Ronald, and gave me as good a cudgel as a man could wish for in a row. The formality of these gifts, and the waiting figure of the driver, told me loudly that I must be gone.
I dropped on one knee and bade farewell to the aunt, kissing her hand.
I did the like--but with how different a passion!--to her niece; as for the boy, I took him to my arms and embraced him with a cordiality that seemed to strike him speechless. 'Farewell!' and 'Farewell!' I said.
'I shall never forget my friends. Keep me sometimes in memory.
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