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St Ives
The Project Gutenberg EBook of St Ives, by Robert Louis Stevenson (#6 in our series by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Title: St Ives
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: September, 1995 [EBook #322] [This file was first posted on December 30, 1995]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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Transcribed 1898 William Heinemann edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
ST. IVES BEING THE ADVENTURES OF A FRENCH PRISONER IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER I
--A TALE OF A LION RAMPANTIt was in the month of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of the enemy. My knowledge of the English language had marked me out for a certain employment. Though I cannot conceive a soldier refusing to incur the risk, yet to be hanged for a sp