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This Etext of THE POCKET R. L. S. scanned and proofread by Sean
Hackett ([email protected])

THE POCKET R. L. S. Being favourite passages from the works of
Stevenson.

SELECTED PASSAGES
When you have read, you carry away with you a memory of the man
himself; it is as though you had touched a loyal hand, looked into brave
eyes, and made a noble friend; there is another bond on you
thenceforward, binding you to life and to the love of virtue.
*
It is to some more specific memory that youth looks forward in its
vigils. Old kings are sometimes disinterred in all the emphasis of life,
the hands untainted by decay, the beard that had so often wagged in
camp or senate still spread upon the royal bosom; and in busts and
pictures, some similitude of the great and beautiful of former days is
handed down. In this way, public curiosity may be gratified, but hardly
any private aspiration after fame. It is not likely that posterity will fall
in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathise;
and so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit

than a portrait of his face, FIGURA ANIMI MAGIS QUAM
CORPORIS.
*
The pleasure that we take in beautiful nature is essentially capricious. It
comes sometimes when we least look for it; and sometimes, when we
expect it most certainly, it leaves us to gape joylessly for days together,
in the very homeland of the beautiful. We may have passed a place a
thousand times and one; and on the thousand and second it will be
transfigured, and stand forth in a certain splendour of reality from the
dull circle of surroundings; so that we see it 'with a child's first
pleasure,' as Wordsworth saw the daffodils by the lake-side.
*
But every one sees the world in his own way. To some the glad
moment may have arrived on other provocations; and their recollection
may be most vivid of the stately gait of women carrying burthens on
their heads; of tropical effect, with caves and naked rock and sunlight;
of the relief of cypresses; of the troubled, busy-looking groups of
sea-pines, that seem always as if they were being wielded and swept
together by a whirlwind; of the air coming, laden with virginal
perfumes, over the myrtles and the scented underwoods; of the
empurpled hills