California to see her friends; it is rather an anxiety to let her go alone; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I can say no good except that it suits me... The Adirondacks - Page 220by Thomas Morris Longstreth - 1917 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 516 pages
...her go alone; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 504 pages
...her go alone; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 506 pages
...her go alone; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1907 - 500 pages
...her go alone; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 440 pages
...her go alone ; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 414 pages
...her go alone; but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here — a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Maggs Bros - 1927 - 316 pages
...let her go alone, but the Dr. simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here—a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of Which I can...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St. Andrews, I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 2001 - 644 pages
...let her go alone, but the doctor simply forbids it in my case, and she is better anywhere than here - a bleak, blackguard, beggarly climate, of which I...except that it suits me and some others of the same or similar persuasions whom (by all rights) it ought to kill. It is a form of Arctic St Andrews, I... | |
| Paul Schneider - 1998 - 388 pages
...of the Adirondacks. Robert Louis Stevenson was one who came looking for a cure in 1887 and found it "a bleak blackguard beggarly climate, of which I can say no good except it suits me." While there he wrote most of The Master of Ballantrae, which ends with death in a decidedly... | |
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