The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25), by Robert Louis Stevenson
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston
Release Date: January 21, 2010 [eBook #31037]
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. XIX (OF 25)
***E-text prepared by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 31037-h.htm or 31037-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31037/31037-h/31037-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31037/31037-h.zip)
_Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._
[Illustration: R. L. S. AND OTHERS IN THE SANS-SOUCI SALOON, BUTARITARI, GILBERT ISLANDS]
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII
II. MORNING ON THE BEACH--THE THREE LETTERS 19
III. THE OLD CALABOOSE--DESTINY AT THE DOOR 29
III. In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp 181
V. Winter on the Moors: 1. At Hermiston 205 2. Kirstie 208 3. A Border Family 212
VI. A Leaf from Christina's Psalm-Book 228
WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION WITH LLOYD OSBOURNE
"_There is a tide in the affairs of men_"
NOTE.--_On the pronunciation of a name very frequently repeated in these pages, the reader may take for a guide_--
Stevenson and I little knew, when we began our collaboration, that we were afterwards to raise such a hornets' nest about our ears. The critics resented such an unequal partnership, and made it impossible for us to continue it. It may be that they were right; they wanted Stevenson's best, and felt pretty sure they would not get it in our collaboration. But when they ascribed all the good in our three books to Stevenson and all the bad to me, they went a little beyond the mark. It is a pleasure to me to recall that the early part of both "The Wrecker" and "The Ebb-Tide" was almost entirely my own; so also were the storm scenes of the _Norah Creina_; so also the fight on the _Flying Scud_; so also the inception of Huish's scheme, the revelation of it to his companions, his landing on the atoll with the bottle of vitriol in his breast. On the other hand, the Paris portion of "The Wrecker" was all Stevenson's, as well as the concluding chapters of both the South Sea books.