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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables
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From the opening
THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD
CHAPTER 1. BY THE DYING MOUNTEBANK
CHAPTER 2. MORNING TALK
CHAPTER 3. THE ADOPTION
CHAPTER 4. THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER
CHAPTER 5. TREASURE TROVE
CHAPTER 6. A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, IN TWO PARTS
CHAPTER 7. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ
CHAPTER 8. THE WAGES OF PHILOSOPHY
It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot
for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before
at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and,
leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by
sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart.
I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did, from
an unmixed lowland stock. But an uncle of mine, Gordon Darnaway, after
a poor, rough youth, and some years at sea, had married a young wife in
the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and
when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros, the sea-girt farm,
had remained in his possession. It brought him in nothing but the means
of life, as I was well aware; but he was a man whom ill-fortune had
pursued; he feared, cumbered as he was with the young child, to make a
fresh adventure upon life; and remained in Aros, biting his nails at
destiny. Years passed over his head in that isolation, and brought
neither help nor contentment. Meantime our family was dying out in the
lowlands; there is little luck for any of that race; and perhaps my
father was the luckiest of all, for not only was he one of the last to
die, but he left a son to his name and a little money to support it.
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