Robert Louis Stevenson; Some Personal Recollections By the Late Lord Guthrie
The book Robert Louis Stevenson; Some Personal Recollections By the Late Lord Guthrie was written by author Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord, 1849-1920 Here you can read free online of Robert Louis Stevenson; Some Personal Recollections By the Late Lord Guthrie book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Robert Louis Stevenson; Some Personal Recollections By the Late Lord Guthrie a good or bad book?
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" Don't talk blazing nonsense, Fraser ! What have politics to do with that glorious old Scot ? " At college we did not look for Louis at law lectures, except when the weather was bad. One wet and dark winter afternoon, a scene in the Scots Law classroom remains in my memory. Stevenson, Sir Walter Simpson, and I gossiped while the Professor drowsily discoursed. Suddenly our whispers and smothered laughter seemed to acquire strange volume. The Professor had stopped, and was gazing silently and sa...dly at what we had thought our safe corner, while we (absorbed, like enough, in some farcical experience or wild project of Stevenson's) were a source of amusement to our fellows ! Such scenes misled us as to Stevenson's future. " All through my boyhood and youth," he writes, " I was known and pointed out as the pattern of an idler. And yet I was always busy at my own private end, which was to learn to write." And again : "I remember a time when I was very idle, and lived and profited by that humour.
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