David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, the Second Part: 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
1893
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, the Second Part: 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
1893
The year is 1751. Two years after his Hairy MacLeod adventures, David Balfour has transformed from impoverished orphan to wealthy laird. But inheritance brings danger, not peace. When David witnesses the Appin murder, he finds himself trapped between a vindictive Lord Advocate and the exiled Jacobites who consider him a traitor. Kidnapped once again, this time he lands on the Bass Rock, that grim prison isle off the Scottish coast, where he languishes for months awaiting a trial that could end his life. From the prison's stone walls to the courts of Holland and France, David pursues justice for a murder he cannot forget. Along the way, he falls desperately in love with Catriona Drummond, the fierce daughter of a Rob Macgregor son, a woman as untamed as the Highlands themselves. Their romance blossoms amid political chaos, forcing David to choose between his safety and his conscience. Stevenson's sequel to Kidnapped is a darker, more complex work: part courtroom thriller, part romantic adventure, all Scottish to its bones. It asks what loyalty means when every side claims righteousness, and what price a man pays for choosing conscience over convenience.
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“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“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:”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Alan,” I cried, “I can stand no more of this.” “Ye’ll have to sit it then, Davie,””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I've a grand memory for forgetting,””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“But a word once spoken who can recapture it?””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“By what I have read in books, I think few that have held a pen were ever really wearied, or they would write of it more strongly. I had no care of my life, neither past nor future, and I scarce remembered there was such a lad as David Balfour. I did not think of myself, but just of each fresh step which I was sure would be my last, with despair”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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