Kidnapped (Mass Market Paperback)
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【お取り寄せ・キャンセル不可の商品】：2週間~4週間でお届け（お急ぎの方はご遠慮ください。） ／ 【本の説明】288ページ 107*176mm 言語：English 国：アメリカ 141g ISBN：9780553212600 対象年齢：9~12歳|Lexile?指数：630L ／ 【本の内容】Acclaimed by Henry James as Robert Louis Stevenson's best novel Kidnapped achieves what Stevenson called "the particular crown and triumph of the artist...not simply to convince but to enchant." Spirited romantic and full of danger Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classicof high adventure.Beloved by generations it is the saga of David Balfour a youngheir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plotsto have him seized and sold into slavery.But honor loyalty and courage are rewarded;the orphan and castaway survives kidnapping and shipwreck is rescued by a daredevilof a rogue and makes a thrilling escape to
【本の説明】
288 ページ
107*176mm
言語： English
国： アメリカ
141g
ISBN ： 9780553212600
対象年齢： 9 ~ 12歳 | Lexile?指数 ： 630L
【本の内容】
Acclaimed by Henry James as Robert Louis Stevenson's best novel
Kidnapped
achieves what Stevenson called "the particular crown and triumph of the artist...not simply to convince but to enchant."
Spirited romantic and full of danger
Kidnapped
is Robert Louis Stevenson's classicof high adventure.Beloved by generations it is the saga of David Balfour a youngheir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plotsto have him seized and sold into slavery.But honor loyalty and courage are rewarded;the orphan and castaway survives kidnapping and shipwreck is rescued by a daredevilof a rogue and makes a thrilling escape to freedom across the wild highlands ofScotland.
Excerpt
Chapter One
I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June the year of grace 1751 when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away.
Mr. Campbell the minister of Essendean was waiting for me by the garden gate good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked for nothing he took my hand in both of his and cupped it kindly under his arm.
"Well Davie lad" said he "I will go with you as far as the ford to set you on the way."
And we began to walk forward in silence.
"Are ye sorry to leave Essendean?" said he after a while.
"Why sir" said I "if I knew where I was going or what was likely to become of me I would tell you candidly. Essendean is a good place indeed and I have been very happy there; but then I have never been anywhere else. My father and mother since they are both dead I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary; and to speak truth if I thought I had a chance to better myself where I was going I would go with a good will."
"Ay?" said Mr. Campbell. "Very well Davie. Then it behoves me to tell your fortune; or so far as I may. When your mother was gone and your father (the worthy Christian man) began to sicken for his end he gave me in charge a certain letter which he said was your inheritance. 'So soon' says he 'as I am gone and the house is redd up and the gear disposed of' (all which Davie hath been done) 'give my boy this letter into his hand and start him off to the house of Shaws not far from Cramond. That is the place I came from' he said 'and it's where it befits that my boy should return. He is a steady lad' your father said 'and a canny goer; and I doubt not he will come safe and be well liked where he goes.'"
"The house of Shaws!" I cried. "What had my poor father to do with the house of Shaws?"
"Nay" said Mr. Campbell "who can tell that for a surety? But the name of that family Davie boy is the name you bear?Balfours of Shaws: an ancient honest reputable house peradventure in these latter days decayed. Your father too was a man of learning as befitted his position; no man more plausibly conducted school; nor had the manner or the speech of a common dominie; but (as ye will yourself remember) I took aye a pleasure to have him to the manse to meet the gentry; and those of my own house Campbell of Kilrennet Campbell of Dunswire Campbell of Minch and others all well-kenned gentlemen had pleasure in his society. Lastly to put all the elements of this affair before you here is the testamentary letter itself superscrived by the own hand of our departed brother."
He gave me the letter which was addressed in these words: "To the hands of Ebenezer Balfour Esquire of Shaws in his house of Shaws these will be delivered by my son David Balfour." My heart was beating hard at this great prospect now suddenly opening before a lad of seventeen years of age the son of a poor country dominie in the Forest of Ettrick.
"Mr. Campbell" I stammered "and if you were in my shoes would you go?"
"Of a surety" said the minister "that would I and without pause. A pretty lad like you should get to Cramond (which is near in by Edinburgh) in two days of walk. If the worst came to the worst and your high relations (as I cannot but suppose them to be somewhat of your blood) should put you to the door ye can but walk the two days back again and risp1 at the manse door. But I would rather hope that ye shall be well received as your poor father forecast for you and for anything that I ken come to be a great man in time. And here Davie laddie" he resumed "it lies near upon my conscience to improve this parting and set you on the right guard against the dangers of the world."
Here he cast about for a comfortable seat lighted on a big boulder under a birch by the trackside sate down upon it with a very long serious upper lip and the sun now shining in upon us between two peaks put his pocket-handkerchief over his cocked hat to shelter him. There then with uplifted forefinger he first put me on my guard against a considerable number of heresies to which I had no temptation and urged upon me to be instant in my prayers and reading of the Bible. That done he drew a picture of the great house that I was bound to and how I should conduct myself with its inhabitants.
"Be soople Davie in things immaterial" said he. "Bear ye this in mind that though gentle born ye have had a country rearing. Dinna shame us Davie dinna shame us! In yon great muckle2 house with all these domestics upper and under show yourself as nice as circumspect as quick at the conception and as slow of speech as any. As for the laird?remember he's the laird; I say no more: honour to whom honour. It's a pleasure to obey a laird; or should be to the young."
"Well sir" said I "it may be; and I'll promise you I'll try to make it so."
"Why very well said" replied Mr. Campbell heartily. "And now to come to the material or (to make a quibble) to the immaterial. I have here a little packet which contains four things." He tugged it as he spoke and with some great difficulty from the skirt pocket of his coat. "Of these four things the first is your legal due: the little pickle money for your father's books and plenishing which I have bought (as I have explained from the first) in the design of re-selling at a profit to the incoming dominie. The other three are gifties that Mrs. Campbell and myself would be blithe of your acceptance. The first which is round will likely please ye best at the first off-go; but O Davie laddie it's but a drop of water in the sea; it'll help you but a step and vanish like the morning. The second which is flat and square and written upon will stand by you through life like a good staff for the road and a good pillow to your head in sickness. And as for the last which is cubical that'll see you it's my prayerful wish into a better land."
With that he got upon his feet took off his hat and prayed a little while aloud and in affecting terms for a young man setting out into the world; then suddenly took me in his arms and embraced me very hard; then held me at arm's-length looking at me with his face all working with sorrow; and then whipped about and crying goodbye to me set off backward by the way that we had come at a sort of jogging run. It might have been laughable to another; but I was in no mind to laugh. I watched him as long as he was in sight; and he never stopped hurrying nor once looked back. Then it came in upon my mind that this was all his sorrow at my departure; and my conscience smote me hard and fast because I for my part was overjoyed to get away out of that quiet countryside and go to a great busy house among rich and respected gentlefolk of my own name and blood.
"Davie Davie" I thought "was ever seen such black ingratitude? Can you forget old favours and old friends at the mere whistle of a name? Fie fie; think shame!"
And I sat down on the boulder the good man had just left and opened the parcel to see the nature of my gifts. That which he had called cubical I had never had much doubt of; sure enough it was a little Bible; to carry in a plaid-neuk.1 That which he had called round I found to be a shilling piece; and the third which was to help me so wonderfully both in health and sickness all the days of my life was a little piece of coarse yellow paper written upon thus in red ink:
"To make lilly of the valley water.?Take the flowers of lilly of the valley and distil them in sack and drink a spooneful or two as there is occasion. It restores against the Gout; it comforts the heart and strengthens the memory; and the flowers put into a Glasse close stopt and set into ane hill of ants for a month then take it out and you will find a liquor which comes from the flowers which keep in a vial; it is good ill or well and whether man or woman."
And then in the minister's own hand was added:
"Likewise for sprains rub it in; and for the cholic a great spooneful in the hour."
To be sure I laughed over this; but it was rather tremulous laughter; and I was glad to get my bundle on my staff's end and set out over the ford and up the hill upon the farther side; till just as I came on the green droveroad running wide through the heather I took my last look of Kirk Essendean the trees
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288 ページ
107*176mm
言語： English
国： アメリカ
141g
ISBN ： 9780553212600
対象年齢： 9 ~ 12歳 | Lexile?指数 ： 630L
【本の内容】
Acclaimed by Henry James as Robert Louis Stevenson's best novel
Kidnapped
achieves what Stevenson called "the particular crown and triumph of the artist...not simply to convince but to enchant."
Spirited romantic and full of danger
Kidnapped
is Robert Louis Stevenson's classicof high adventure.Beloved by generations it is the saga of David Balfour a youngheir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plotsto have him seized and sold into slavery.But honor loyalty and courage are rewarded;the orphan and castaway survives kidnapping and shipwreck is rescued by a daredevilof a rogue and makes a thrilling escape to freedom across the wild highlands ofScotland.
Excerpt
Chapter One
I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June the year of grace 1751 when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away.
Mr. Campbell the minister of Essendean was waiting for me by the garden gate good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked for nothing he took my hand in both of his and cupped it kindly under his arm.
"Well Davie lad" said he "I will go with you as far as the ford to set you on the way."
And we began to walk forward in silence.
"Are ye sorry to leave Essendean?" said he after a while.
"Why sir" said I "if I knew where I was going or what was likely to become of me I would tell you candidly. Essendean is a good place indeed and I have been very happy there; but then I have never been anywhere else. My father and mother since they are both dead I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary; and to speak truth if I thought I had a chance to better myself where I was going I would go with a good will."
"Ay?" said Mr. Campbell. "Very well Davie. Then it behoves me to tell your fortune; or so far as I may. When your mother was gone and your father (the worthy Christian man) began to sicken for his end he gave me in charge a certain letter which he said was your inheritance. 'So soon' says he 'as I am gone and the house is redd up and the gear disposed of' (all which Davie hath been done) 'give my boy this letter into his hand and start him off to the house of Shaws not far from Cramond. That is the place I came from' he said 'and it's where it befits that my boy should return. He is a steady lad' your father said 'and a canny goer; and I doubt not he will come safe and be well liked where he goes.'"
"The house of Shaws!" I cried. "What had my poor father to do with the house of Shaws?"
"Nay" said Mr. Campbell "who can tell that for a surety? But the name of that family Davie boy is the name you bear?Balfours of Shaws: an ancient honest reputable house peradventure in these latter days decayed. Your father too was a man of learning as befitted his position; no man more plausibly conducted school; nor had the manner or the speech of a common dominie; but (as ye will yourself remember) I took aye a pleasure to have him to the manse to meet the gentry; and those of my own house Campbell of Kilrennet Campbell of Dunswire Campbell of Minch and others all well-kenned gentlemen had pleasure in his society. Lastly to put all the elements of this affair before you here is the testamentary letter itself superscrived by the own hand of our departed brother."
He gave me the letter which was addressed in these words: "To the hands of Ebenezer Balfour Esquire of Shaws in his house of Shaws these will be delivered by my son David Balfour." My heart was beating hard at this great prospect now suddenly opening before a lad of seventeen years of age the son of a poor country dominie in the Forest of Ettrick.
"Mr. Campbell" I stammered "and if you were in my shoes would you go?"
"Of a surety" said the minister "that would I and without pause. A pretty lad like you should get to Cramond (which is near in by Edinburgh) in two days of walk. If the worst came to the worst and your high relations (as I cannot but suppose them to be somewhat of your blood) should put you to the door ye can but walk the two days back again and risp1 at the manse door. But I would rather hope that ye shall be well received as your poor father forecast for you and for anything that I ken come to be a great man in time. And here Davie laddie" he resumed "it lies near upon my conscience to improve this parting and set you on the right guard against the dangers of the world."
Here he cast about for a comfortable seat lighted on a big boulder under a birch by the trackside sate down upon it with a very long serious upper lip and the sun now shining in upon us between two peaks put his pocket-handkerchief over his cocked hat to shelter him. There then with uplifted forefinger he first put me on my guard against a considerable number of heresies to which I had no temptation and urged upon me to be instant in my prayers and reading of the Bible. That done he drew a picture of the great house that I was bound to and how I should conduct myself with its inhabitants.
"Be soople Davie in things immaterial" said he. "Bear ye this in mind that though gentle born ye have had a country rearing. Dinna shame us Davie dinna shame us! In yon great muckle2 house with all these domestics upper and under show yourself as nice as circumspect as quick at the conception and as slow of speech as any. As for the laird?remember he's the laird; I say no more: honour to whom honour. It's a pleasure to obey a laird; or should be to the young."
"Well sir" said I "it may be; and I'll promise you I'll try to make it so."
"Why very well said" replied Mr. Campbell heartily. "And now to come to the material or (to make a quibble) to the immaterial. I have here a little packet which contains four things." He tugged it as he spoke and with some great difficulty from the skirt pocket of his coat. "Of these four things the first is your legal due: the little pickle money for your father's books and plenishing which I have bought (as I have explained from the first) in the design of re-selling at a profit to the incoming dominie. The other three are gifties that Mrs. Campbell and myself would be blithe of your acceptance. The first which is round will likely please ye best at the first off-go; but O Davie laddie it's but a drop of water in the sea; it'll help you but a step and vanish like the morning. The second which is flat and square and written upon will stand by you through life like a good staff for the road and a good pillow to your head in sickness. And as for the last which is cubical that'll see you it's my prayerful wish into a better land."
With that he got upon his feet took off his hat and prayed a little while aloud and in affecting terms for a young man setting out into the world; then suddenly took me in his arms and embraced me very hard; then held me at arm's-length looking at me with his face all working with sorrow; and then whipped about and crying goodbye to me set off backward by the way that we had come at a sort of jogging run. It might have been laughable to another; but I was in no mind to laugh. I watched him as long as he was in sight; and he never stopped hurrying nor once looked back. Then it came in upon my mind that this was all his sorrow at my departure; and my conscience smote me hard and fast because I for my part was overjoyed to get away out of that quiet countryside and go to a great busy house among rich and respected gentlefolk of my own name and blood.
"Davie Davie" I thought "was ever seen such black ingratitude? Can you forget old favours and old friends at the mere whistle of a name? Fie fie; think shame!"
And I sat down on the boulder the good man had just left and opened the parcel to see the nature of my gifts. That which he had called cubical I had never had much doubt of; sure enough it was a little Bible; to carry in a plaid-neuk.1 That which he had called round I found to be a shilling piece; and the third which was to help me so wonderfully both in health and sickness all the days of my life was a little piece of coarse yellow paper written upon thus in red ink:
"To make lilly of the valley water.?Take the flowers of lilly of the valley and distil them in sack and drink a spooneful or two as there is occasion. It restores against the Gout; it comforts the heart and strengthens the memory; and the flowers put into a Glasse close stopt and set into ane hill of ants for a month then take it out and you will find a liquor which comes from the flowers which keep in a vial; it is good ill or well and whether man or woman."
And then in the minister's own hand was added:
"Likewise for sprains rub it in; and for the cholic a great spooneful in the hour."
To be sure I laughed over this; but it was rather tremulous laughter; and I was glad to get my bundle on my staff's end and set out over the ford and up the hill upon the farther side; till just as I came on the green droveroad running wide through the heather I took my last look of Kirk Essendean the trees
【発送方法】
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