The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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impossible proposals for their joining him later on.

His parting words to Mr. Low were: "There's England over there--and I've
left it--perhaps I may never go back--and there on the other side of
this big continent there's another sea rolling in. I loved the Pacific
in the days when I was at Monterey, and perhaps now it will love me a
little. I am going to meet it; ever since I was a boy the South Seas
have laid a spell upon me."




CHAPTER VIII

IN THE SOUTH SEAS

 "Since long ago, a child at home,