The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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more and have them know his wife. This desire grew so from day to day
that July found them bidding good-by to California, and on the 7th of
August they sailed from New York for Liverpool.




CHAPTER VI

SCOTLAND AGAIN

 "Bells upon the city are ringing in the night,
  High above the gardens are the houses full of light,
  On the heathy Pentlands is the curlew flying free,
  And the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie.

 "We canna break the bonds that God decreed to bind,