The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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"All told," said Stevenson, "if my books have enabled or helped me to
make this voyage, to know Rui, and to have received such a letter, they
have ... not been writ in vain."




CHAPTER IX

VAILIMA

  "We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that
  unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which
  we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the
  bright skies that make our lives delightful, for the friends in all
  parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle....
  Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our