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1,763 | 233_chapters_11-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie continues to grow more graceful and charming as the days pass. Drouet seeks to help along her change by making tactless and stupidly cruel comparisons with other women; he has no awareness of Carrie's extreme sensitivity. One evening as she sits alone listening to a piano being played in the next apartment she i... | [
"Carrie was an apt student of fortune's ways--of fortune's\nsuperficialities. Seeing a thing, she would immediately set to inquiring\nhow she would look, properly related to it. Be it known that this is not\nfine feeling, it is not wisdom. The greatest minds are not so afflicted;\nand on the contrary, the lowest or... |
1,764 | 233_chapters_14-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even as her neighbor Mrs. Hale is spreading gossip about the rooming house, Carrie reflects on her situation with Drouet and begins to see hope of a way out, mistakenly perceiving in Hurstwood an advance toward honor and self-respect. Hurstwood, however, thinks only of "pleasure without responsibility." He wishes to do... | [
"Carrie in her rooms that evening was in a fine glow, physically and\nmentally. She was deeply rejoicing in her affection for Hurstwood and\nhis love, and looked forward with fine fancy to their next meeting\nSunday night. They had agreed, without any feeling of enforced secrecy,\nthat she should come down town and... |
1,728 | 233_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Drouet, having promised his lodge brothers that he would find an actress for their fund-raising theatrical, turns to Carrie as a last resort. After some coaxing she becomes very willing to try a part in the melodrama. Because the members of the lodge to which he belongs know he is not married, Drouet has Carrie's name ... | [
"In the course of his present stay in Chicago, Drouet paid some slight\nattention to the secret order to which he belonged. During his last trip\nhe had received a new light on its importance.",
"\"I tell you,\" said another drummer to him, \"it's a great thing. Look at\nHazenstab. He isn't so deuced clever. Of c... |
1,765 | 233_chapters_17-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During her next visit with Hurstwood, Carrie tells him all about her role in the forthcoming melodrama. He is pleased to learn that Carrie has capabilities and ambition. Hurstwood assures Carrie that he will contrive to keep Drouet from knowing that she told him about the theatrical. When Drouet does stop by at Fitzger... | [
"The, to Carrie, very important theatrical performance was to take place\nat the Avery on conditions which were to make it more noteworthy than\nwas at first anticipated. The little dramatic student had written to\nHurstwood the very morning her part was brought her that she was going\nto take part in a play.",
"... |
1,766 | 233_chapters_20-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the morning after Carrie's performance, Hurstwood is troubled with the problem of getting her away from Drouet. Since both he and his wife are in a bad mood, they bicker over family details. Mrs. Hurstwood is determined to receive more "ladylike treatment" in the future. Carrie is basking in the glory of her own ach... | [
"Passion in a man of Hurstwood's nature takes a vigorous form. It is no\nmusing, dreamy thing. There is none of the tendency to sing outside of\nmy lady's window--to languish and repine in the face of difficulties. In\nthe night he was long getting to sleep because of too much thinking, and\nin the morning he was e... |
1,767 | 233_chapters_22-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that jealousy, having been born out of love, did not perish with it." Mrs. Hurstwood maintains a form of jealousy that turns itself into hatred. She is resentful and suspicious of Hurstwood as she observes his youthful demeanor. Mrs. Hurstwood learns from t... | [
"The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that\njealousy, having been born of love, did not perish with it. Mrs.\nHurstwood retained this in such form that subsequent influences could\ntransform it into hate. Hurstwood was still worthy, in a physical sense,\nof the affection his wife had once b... |
1,768 | 233_chapters_24-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood leaves his home to take a room in a hotel. Uncertain of what his wife will do next, he is forced into inaction. Mrs. Hurstwood, on the contrary, proceeds to press her advantage and begins to make heavy demands of money. Cursing himself for placing his property in her name some years ago, Hurstwood is further ... | [
"That night Hurstwood remained down town entirely, going to the Palmer\nHouse for a bed after his work was through. He was in a fevered state of\nmind, owing to the blight his wife's action threatened to cast upon\nhis entire future. While he was not sure how much significance might be\nattached to the threat she h... |
1,738 | 233_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The focus of the narrative shifts back to Carrie sitting alone in her rocking chair after Drouet's departure. She realizes that he may never return and so begins to formulate plans for the future. Certainly she cannot go to Hurstwood for aid, for she is shocked by the "evidence of human depravity" she sees in the man. ... | [
"Carrie, left alone by Drouet, listened to his retreating steps, scarcely\nrealising what had happened. She knew that he had stormed out. It was\nsome moments before she questioned whether he would return, not now\nexactly, but ever. She looked around her upon the rooms, out of which\nthe evening light was dying, a... |
1,739 | 233_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood spends the day thinking of his plight. Carrie no longer wants to see him. His wife is seeking to ruin him. What can he do? Noticing that Drouet is now living at the Palmer House, Hurstwood rushes out to Carrie's apartment but finds she is not at home. He returns to the saloon and begins to imbibe more than is... | [
"It was when he returned from his disturbed stroll about the streets,\nafter receiving the decisive note from McGregor, James and Hay, that\nHurstwood found the letter Carrie had written him that morning. He\nthrilled intensely as he noted the handwriting, and rapidly tore it\nopen.",
"\"Then,\" he thought, \"she... |
1,769 | 233_chapters_28-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood and Carrie board the Detroit train. When the train is out of Chicago Hurstwood admits that Drouet's injury was merely a ruse to get Carrie to go away with him. She makes an effort to get away from Hurstwood but his pleadings and explanations make her reconsider. She is drawn by his daring and power and is fla... | [
"The cab had not travelled a short block before Carrie, settling herself\nand thoroughly waking in the night atmosphere, asked:",
"\"What's the matter with him? Is he hurt badly?\"",
"\"It isn't anything very serious,\" Hurstwood said solemnly. He was very\nmuch disturbed over his own situation, and now that he... |
1,770 | 233_chapters_30-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Approximately the first two years in New York is sketched in briefly. Hurstwood purchases a one-third partnership in a downtown establishment, one not nearly so "swell" as Fitzgerald and Moy's. After a few months, business improves and Hurstwood begins to resume his old public self He occasionally gambles and attends t... | [
"Whatever a man like Hurstwood could be in Chicago, it is very evident\nthat he would be but an inconspicuous drop in an ocean like New York. In\nChicago, whose population still ranged about 500,000, millionaires were\nnot numerous. The rich had not become so conspicuously rich as to drown\nall moderate incomes in ... |
1,744 | 233_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the matinee Carrie returns home to dwell upon what seems to her the extraordinarily beautiful world of the theater and regrets in her heart that she cannot be part of it. Nevertheless, New York seems to be a place filled with even more wonder and fantasy than Chicago itself. She believes that she can "never live"... | [
"Such feelings as were generated in Carrie by this walk put her in an\nexceedingly receptive mood for the pathos which followed in the play.\nThe actor whom they had gone to see had achieved his popularity by\npresenting a mellow type of comedy, in which sufficient sorrow was\nintroduced to lend contrast and relief... |
1,771 | 233_chapters_33-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even though she does not see Ames again for some time, Carrie thinks of him as an ideal to contrast other men by. Compared to the youthful Ames, Hurstwood seems old and uninteresting, while Drouet seems foolish and shallow. Hurstwood himself is sliding past the prime of life, and largely because of that, he begins to l... | [
"The immediate result of this was nothing. Results from such things\nare usually long in growing. Morning brings a change of feeling. The\nexistent condition invariably pleads for itself. It is only at odd\nmoments that we get glimpses of the misery of things. The heart\nunderstands when it is confronted with contr... |
1,748 | 233_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Carrie has avoided Mrs. Vance since she and Hurstwood have moved to the commonplace Thirteenth Street address, she experiences mixed feelings when she meets the young woman on the street by chance one day. She invites Mrs. Vance to visit "some time," afraid to have her see Hurstwood in his bedraggled condition... | [
"The Vances, who had been back in the city ever since Christmas, had not\nforgotten Carrie; but they, or rather Mrs. Vance, had never called on\nher, for the very simple reason that Carrie had never sent her address.\nTrue to her nature, she corresponded with Mrs. Vance as long as she\nstill lived in Seventy-eighth... |
1,772 | 233_chapters_37-39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As in Chicago, the idea of working in the theater comes to Carrie as a last resource in distress. One morning over breakfast she announces her intention of finding a job. Hurstwood is secretly afraid that she will become successful and desert him. He does not understand Carrie's mental ability; he does not realize that... | [
"It would be useless to explain how in due time the last fifty dollars\nwas in sight. The seven hundred, by his process of handling, had only\ncarried them into June. Before the final hundred mark was reached he\nbegan to indicate that a calamity was approaching.",
"\"I don't know,\" he said one day, taking a tri... |
1,773 | 233_chapters_40-41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The remainder of the summer and the autumn pass. Carrie obtains another part at a higher salary when the opera in which she played a part goes on the road. Hurstwood continues to sit in the rocking chair, reading his newspaper, promising himself that things will go better for him. Of course, the hotel job he talked abo... | [
"There was no after-theatre lark, however, so far as Carrie was\nconcerned. She made her way homeward, thinking about her absence.\nHurstwood was asleep, but roused up to look as she passed through to her\nown bed.",
"\"Is that you?\" he said.",
"\"Yes,\" she answered.",
"The next morning at breakfast she fel... |
1,754 | 233_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie misunderstands Hurstwood's Brooklyn trolley venture, thinking that "he had encountered nothing worse than the ordinary roughness." The same night that Hurstwood spends in the car barn Carrie gains the approval of the star of the show through a clever ad lib remark. The line remains in the show, and soon thereaft... | [
"Those who look upon Hurstwood's Brooklyn venture as an error of judgment\nwill none the less realise the negative influence on him of the fact\nthat he had tried and failed. Carrie got a wrong idea of it. He said\nso little that she imagined he had encountered nothing worse than\nthe ordinary roughness--quitting s... |
1,774 | 233_chapters_43-44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When she first leaves Hurstwood, Carrie fears that he may wait around for her at the theater, but as the days pass she forgets him. "In a little while she was, except for occasional thoughts, wholly free of the gloom with which her life had been weighed in the flat." Now the "showy world" of the theater absorbs her int... | [
"Installed in her comfortable room, Carrie wondered how Hurstwood had\ntaken her departure. She arranged a few things hastily and then left for\nthe theatre, half expecting to encounter him at the door. Not finding\nhim, her dread lifted, and she felt more kindly toward him. She quite\nforgot him until about to com... |
1,757 | 233_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood spends the summer and fall moving about the lower part of the city, drifting from one cheap hotel to another. Finally, when he has spent all the money he received for the furniture in the apartment, he walks to a large Broadway hotel to find a job. His story interests the sympathetic manager, who gives him wo... | [
"The gloomy Hurstwood, sitting in his cheap hotel, where he had taken\nrefuge with seventy dollars--the price of his furniture--between him and\nnothing, saw a hot summer out and a cool fall in, reading. He was not\nwholly indifferent to the fact that his money was slipping away. As\nfifty cents after fifty cents w... |
1,758 | 233_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Preparing in her dressing room one evening, Carrie is disturbed by a commotion outside the door. In walks Drouet, who has just bribed the doorman. The next evening over dinner Drouet tells Carrie about Hurstwood's theft from Fitzgerald and Moy's. She is moved to a genuine sorrow for Hurstwood, thinking that he must hav... | [
"Playing in New York one evening on this her return, Carrie was putting\nthe finishing touches to her toilet before leaving for the night, when\na commotion near the stage door caught her ear. It included a familiar\nvoice.",
"\"Never mind, now. I want to see Miss Madenda.\"",
"\"You'll have to send in your car... |
1,759 | 233_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood spends his time wandering from one charity line to another. He often thinks of suicide, but usually does not have the fifteen cents required for a cell with a gas jet. Once he attempts to see Carrie backstage at the theater, but the doorman throws him out bodily. Hurstwood wanders off helplessly, crying, begg... | [
"In the city, at that time, there were a number of charities similar in\nnature to that of the captain's, which Hurstwood now patronised in a\nlike unfortunate way. One was a convent mission-house of the Sisters of\nMercy in Fifteenth Street--a row of red brick family dwellings, before\nthe door of which hung a pla... |
1,775 | 233_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In 1889, eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber boards a train headed for Chicago, leaving behind her small home town of Columbia City. She carries only four dollars, a few paltry belongings, and her sister's address in Chicago. As the train pulls out of Waukesha, Wisconsin, she becomes aware that a man is observing her. De... | [
"When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total\noutfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin\nsatchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse,\ncontaining her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van\nBuren Street, and four dol... |
1,776 | 233_chapters_5-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After receiving Carrie's letter, Drouet puts thoughts of her aside. He goes to Fitzgerald and Moy's, an upscale saloon frequented by the Chicago's upper class, to pass the evening. Drouet is on friendly terms with George Hurstwood, the manager of the saloon, who rubs elbows with the important businessmen, politicians, ... | [
"Drouet did not call that evening. After receiving the letter, he had\nlaid aside all thought of Carrie for the time being and was floating\naround having what he considered a gay time. On this particular evening\nhe dined at \"Rector's,\" a restaurant of some local fame, which occupied\na basement at Clark and Mon... |
1,777 | 233_chapters_9-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood lives in a fashionable three-story home with his family. Hurstwood's wife, Julia, hopes that her daughter, Jessica, will marry rich and that her son, George Hurstwood, Jr., will prosper even more than Hurstwood has. She is not exactly dissatisfied with Hurstwood's success, but she still longs for something mo... | [
"Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick\nbuilding of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the\nfirst floor sunk a very little below the level of the street. It had a\nlarge bay window bulging out from the second floor, and was graced in\nfront by a small grassy plot, ... |
1,778 | 233_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hurstwood intends to make Carrie "confess an affection for him." His work schedule is flexible, so he takes an afternoon off to see her. They ride a horse-drawn carriage to the prairie outside of Chicago, where he declares that his times with her have been the happiest he has spent in years. He confesses that he loves ... | [
"It was not quite two days after the scene between Carrie and Hurstwood\nin the Ogden Place parlour before he again put in his appearance. He had\nbeen thinking almost uninterruptedly of her. Her leniency had, in a way,\ninflamed his regard. He felt that he must succeed with her, and that\nspeedily.",
"The reason... |
1,779 | 233_chapters_17-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie writes Hurstwood to tell him about her part in the play at Drouet's Elk lodge. Later, Drouet drops by Fitzgerald and Moy's and talks to Hurstwood, who mentions that he has heard that Drouet's lodge is putting on a play. Drouet tells him that Carrie is going to take a part in the play. Hurstwood replies that he w... | [
"The, to Carrie, very important theatrical performance was to take place\nat the Avery on conditions which were to make it more noteworthy than\nwas at first anticipated. The little dramatic student had written to\nHurstwood the very morning her part was brought her that she was going\nto take part in a play.",
"... |
1,780 | 233_chapters_22-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julia resents Hurstwood's lack of attention toward her and becomes suspicious. She bitterly notes his sudden good humor and the special attention he has begun paying to his appearance. One of Hurstwood's friends sees him with Carrie in a carriage. However, he thinks the woman is either Julia or Jessica. When he encount... | [
"The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that\njealousy, having been born of love, did not perish with it. Mrs.\nHurstwood retained this in such form that subsequent influences could\ntransform it into hate. Hurstwood was still worthy, in a physical sense,\nof the affection his wife had once b... |
1,781 | 233_chapters_26-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that her support from Drouet is gone, Carrie realizes that she only has seven dollars. She begins looking for work as an actress. Two theater managers tell her that, as a beginner, she should start in New York. She writes Hurstwood to say that she cannot have anything more to do with him. She tries to get work in t... | [
"Carrie, left alone by Drouet, listened to his retreating steps, scarcely\nrealising what had happened. She knew that he had stormed out. It was\nsome moments before she questioned whether he would return, not now\nexactly, but ever. She looked around her upon the rooms, out of which\nthe evening light was dying, a... |
1,782 | 233_chapters_31-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie and Hurstwood live harmoniously in New York for two years. However, Hurstwood makes a few friends and begins staying out in the evenings. Carrie has no friends of her own, and Hurstwood, thinking that Carrie prefers the domestic life, rarely takes her with him during his evening entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. Vance... | [
"The effect of the city and his own situation on Hurstwood was paralleled\nin the case of Carrie, who accepted the things which fortune provided\nwith the most genial good-nature. New York, despite her first expression\nof disapproval, soon interested her exceedingly. Its clear atmosphere,\nmore populous thoroughfa... |
1,783 | 233_chapters_36-42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie encounters Mrs. Vance and invites her to visit. Mrs. Vance senses that Hurstwood and Carrie are in difficult financial straits. The meeting with her old friend increases Carrie's resentment toward Hurstwood's idleness. Hurstwood turns to gambling and loses sixty dollars. Mrs. Vance calls one day when Carrie is o... | [
"The Vances, who had been back in the city ever since Christmas, had not\nforgotten Carrie; but they, or rather Mrs. Vance, had never called on\nher, for the very simple reason that Carrie had never sent her address.\nTrue to her nature, she corresponded with Mrs. Vance as long as she\nstill lived in Seventy-eighth... |
1,784 | 233_chapters_43-47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carrie becomes completely absorbed in the life of the theater. She longs to be a renowned actress. One newspaper runs a small notice announcing that she has taken a speaking part. It is the first time her name is published in a paper. Her new wage of $35 per week gives her ample spending money. New clothes, trinkets, a... | [
"Installed in her comfortable room, Carrie wondered how Hurstwood had\ntaken her departure. She arranged a few things hastily and then left for\nthe theatre, half expecting to encounter him at the door. Not finding\nhim, her dread lifted, and she felt more kindly toward him. She quite\nforgot him until about to com... |
1,785 | 233_chapters_21-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Hurstwood meets Carrie, in Chapter Twenty-One, he wants to talk about his feelings for her but finds he is fishing for words. She is depicted as being in a 'hopeless quandary' when he asks her to leave Drouet. She is almost deluded into thinking she has a 'lively passion' for Hurstwood and is attracted by his appe... | [
"When Carrie came Hurstwood had been waiting many minutes. His blood was\nwarm; his nerves wrought up. He was anxious to see the woman who had\nstirred him so profoundly the night before.",
"\"Here you are,\" he said, repressedly, feeling a spring in his limbs and\nan elation which was tragic in itself.",
"\"Ye... |
1,781 | 233_chapters_26-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter Twenty-Six, Carrie thinks through her current situation and knows she will have to leave her flat soon. She has only seven dollars and does not want to ask Hurstwood for help. Drouet is staying at the Palmer House and is initially angry with Carrie, but then begins to hope she will contact him. Meanwhile, sh... | [
"Carrie, left alone by Drouet, listened to his retreating steps, scarcely\nrealising what had happened. She knew that he had stormed out. It was\nsome moments before she questioned whether he would return, not now\nexactly, but ever. She looked around her upon the rooms, out of which\nthe evening light was dying, a... |
1,782 | 233_chapters_31-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Despite Carrie's initial reservations about New York, we are told in Chapter Thirty-One that she comes to be interested in this new city. In their second year of marriage, she sees that Hurstwood is no longer 'well to do', but accepts this change. He begins to stay out once in a while and she is not jealous of him. How... | [
"The effect of the city and his own situation on Hurstwood was paralleled\nin the case of Carrie, who accepted the things which fortune provided\nwith the most genial good-nature. New York, despite her first expression\nof disapproval, soon interested her exceedingly. Its clear atmosphere,\nmore populous thoroughfa... |
1,786 | 233_chapters_36-40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Six begins with Mrs Vance presuming Carrie had left New York as she has not heard from her since she moved. She is pleased to see Mrs Vance, but is not keen on her visiting their home as she will see their straitened circumstances. The narrative shifts to Hurstwood who plays poker hoping to increase his money , but en... | [
"The Vances, who had been back in the city ever since Christmas, had not\nforgotten Carrie; but they, or rather Mrs. Vance, had never called on\nher, for the very simple reason that Carrie had never sent her address.\nTrue to her nature, she corresponded with Mrs. Vance as long as she\nstill lived in Seventy-eighth... |
1,712 | 233_chapters_41-47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the trolley depot, Hurstwood begins his induction as a driver in Chapter Forty-One. He notes that his fellow strike breakers are as desperate for work as he is. To save money on travel he stays overnight in the building and has to ask for a meal ticket for breakfast. When he begins work, he is taunted as a 'scab' an... | [
"The barn at which Hurstwood applied was exceedingly short-handed, and\nwas being operated practically by three men as directors. There were a\nlot of green hands around--queer, hungry-looking men, who looked as if\nwant had driven them to desperate means. They tried to be lively and\nwilling, but there was an air ... |
1,787 | 421_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first person narrator, David Balfour, begins the novel by introducing his journey from his home, the kirk of Essendean, now that his father and mother have passed away. It is early June of 1751. Walking happily along, he meets the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, who had kindly waited for him at the corner of t... | [
"I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in\nthe month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the\nlast time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine\nupon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time\nI had come as far as the ma... |
1,788 | 421_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Early in the second day of David's journey to the House of Shaws, he came to the top of a hill and observed the sea and the city of Edinburgh. Proudly he marched ahead, asking for directions to the region of Cramond. The closer he approached Glasgow the more he was excited to notice the airs of the city, furnished by m... | [
"On the forenoon of the second day, coming to the top of a hill, I saw\nall the country fall away before me down to the sea; and in the midst\nof this descent, on a long ridge, the city of Edinburgh smoking like\na kiln. There was a flag upon the castle, and ships moving or lying\nanchored in the firth; both of whi... |
1,789 | 421_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old man let David in, warning him not to touch anything. Trudging forward in the darkness, David came upon the kitchen with a small fire aglow lighting the barest room he had ever seen. The old man, looking haggard and of an indeterminate age, entered the room. He offered the boy the rest of his porridge which sat ... | [
"Presently there came a great rattling of chains and bolts, and the\ndoor was cautiously opened and shut to again behind me as soon as I had\npassed.",
"\"Go into the kitchen and touch naething,\" said the voice; and while the\nperson of the house set himself to replacing the defences of the door, I\ngroped my wa... |
1,790 | 421_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day passed better than it started. Lunch and dinner were spent over porridge and beer. David found some amusement in a library near the kitchen, looking over old books. He was glad to see his father's firm writing on the flap but noticed it was addressed for Ebenezer's fifth birthday which confused him because his ... | [
"For a day that was begun so ill, the day passed fairly well. We had the\nporridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night; porridge and\nsmall beer was my uncle's diet. He spoke but little, and that in the\nsame way as before, shooting a question at me after a long silence; and\nwhen I sought to lead him to ... |
1,791 | 421_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When morning came, David washed and started a large fire. He knew that his uncle was murderous but felt he could get the upper hand. After letting the old man out his room, the two sat for breakfast. David asked him what he had to say. His uncle tried to pass it off as a joke but seeing that David was not fooled, he pr... | [
"Much rain fell in the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter\nwintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all\nthat, and before the sun began to peep or the last of the stars had\nvanished, I made my way to the side of the burn, and had a plunge in a\ndeep whirling pool. All aglow fro... |
1,792 | 421_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ransome led them to the Hawes Inn at Queensferry. Up the stairs in a hot room sat Captain Hoseason in very thick, warm clothing. He was large and dignified in appearance. Due to the heat of the room and David's desire to see the ocean, David agreed, against his better will, to leave the room where his uncle sat and go ... | [
"As soon as we came to the inn, Ransome led us up the stair to a small\nroom, with a bed in it, and heated like an oven by a great fire of coal.\nAt a table hard by the chimney, a tall, dark, sober-looking man sat\nwriting. In spite of the heat of the room, he wore a thick sea-jacket,\nbuttoned to the neck, and a t... |
1,793 | 421_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Awash with sickness, David awoke in a hole of overwhelming darkness. He was being thrashed about in a rocking motion and was bruised all over his body. He soon realized that he lay in the underbelly of the ship, Covenant. Furious at his uncle and at his own foolishness, his senses overcame him. When he awoke, David was... | [
"I came to myself in darkness, in great pain, bound hand and foot, and\ndeafened by many unfamiliar noises. There sounded in my ears a roaring\nof water as of a huge mill-dam, the thrashing of heavy sprays, the\nthundering of the sails, and the shrill cries of seamen. The whole world\nnow heaved giddily up, and now... |
1,794 | 421_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night at midnight a man came down from his deck duty to the forecastle, whispering that he had finally done it. David and the others knew at once that he was referring to Mr. Shuan and poor Ransome. Moments later Hoseason came into the forecastle commanding that David run to the round-house as he and Ransome were t... | [
"One night, about eleven o'clock, a man of Mr. Riach's watch (which was\non deck) came below for his jacket; and instantly there began to go\na whisper about the forecastle that \"Shuan had done for him at last.\"\nThere was no need of a name; we all knew who was meant; but we had\nscarce time to get the idea right... |
1,795 | 421_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A week of terrible weather passed where the boat made few strides forward and more than a few backwards. Finally the officers decided to follow the winds further south. Here they met dense fog and swelling waves. Seamen had to listen day and night for breakers so as to not collide with the land. One night, as David ser... | [
"More than a week went by, in which the ill-luck that had hitherto\npursued the Covenant upon this voyage grew yet more strongly marked.\nSome days she made a little way; others, she was driven actually back.\nAt last we were beaten so far to the south that we tossed and tacked to\nand fro the whole of the ninth da... |
1,796 | 421_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Captain and officers had grown tired of waiting for David and so Hoseason presently entered the round-house. Alan drew his sword. The Captain was surprised, mentioning how disappointed he was in David, but soon left. Alan alerted David that the ambush of men might come at any minute. David sat waiting, not sure whe... | [
"But now our time of truce was come to an end. Those on deck had waited\nfor my coming till they grew impatient; and scarce had Alan spoken, when\nthe captain showed face in the open door.",
"\"Stand!\" cried Alan, and pointed his sword at him. The captain stood,\nindeed; but he neither winced nor drew back a foo... |
1,797 | 421_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When morning came, David and Alan breakfasted. Alan told David to expect more fighting especially since the men had no access to their liquor, as the round-house contained it all. In their location, David and Alan were able to share some of the best food and drink on the boat. As a gift of gratitude, Alan gave David on... | [
"Alan and I sat down to breakfast about six of the clock. The floor was\ncovered with broken glass and in a horrid mess of blood, which took away\nmy hunger. In all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable\nbut merry; having ousted the officers from their own cabin, and having\nat command all the drink ... |
1,798 | 421_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Soon, the breeze blew off the rain and the sun came out. The ship's course was decided by Hoseason who feared that the boat may be too large to navigate between the smaller isles. Thus, they drove south hoping to come up to Linnhe Loch around the southern coast of the Isle of Mull. Alan and David sat pleasantly in the ... | [
"Before we had done cleaning out the round-house, a breeze sprang up from\na little to the east of north. This blew off the rain and brought out\nthe sun.",
"And here I must explain; and the reader would do well to look at a map.\nOn the day when the fog fell and we ran down Alan's boat, we had been\nrunning thro... |
1,799 | 421_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late one night, Hoseason pleaded with Alan to steer the ship. Alan and David could tell that the Captain was earnestly worried about navigating his ship through the upcoming waters. Alan took the reins but found the sea to be ordinary. Suddenly, a fountain of water spurted high and the Captain demanded to know what had... | [
"It was already late at night, and as dark as it ever would be at that\nseason of the year (and that is to say, it was still pretty bright),\nwhen Hoseason clapped his head into the round-house door.",
"\"Here,\" said he, \"come out and see if ye can pilot.\"",
"\"Is this one of your tricks?\" asked Alan.",
"... |
1,800 | 421_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter XIII, therefore, the men attempt to save the boat through a concerted effort, but the power of nature is simply too strong to submit to this unity. The theme of man versus nature will be further explored as we progress. As we have discussed previously, David's adventures are symbolically a rite of passage in... | [
"With my stepping ashore I began the most unhappy part of my adventures.\nIt was half-past twelve in the morning, and though the wind was broken\nby the land, it was a cold night. I dared not sit down (for I thought\nI should have frozen), but took off my shoes and walked to and fro upon\nthe sand, bare-foot, and b... |
1,801 | 421_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It was past midnight when David walked around the island. He took of his shoes and paced back and forth, afraid that if he sat he might freeze. With the beginning of dawn, he decided to trek to the top of the nearby hill, hoping to see a ship. From the top, he could not see the Covenant nor any other sail in the distan... | [
"The Ross of Mull, which I had now got upon, was rugged and trackless,\nlike the isle I had just left; being all bog, and brier, and big stone.\nThere may be roads for them that know that country well; but for my part\nI had no better guide than my own nose, and no other landmark than Ben\nMore.",
"I aimed as wel... |
1,802 | 421_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David took a ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline. The boat's skipper had the last name of Macrob which he recognized as one of Alan's clan. David hoped to get a word with him but the crowds on the boat did not allow it. The trip was tedious but the good natured passengers sang in Gaelic to pass the time. As they neared ... | [
"There is a regular ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline on the mainland.\nBoth shores of the Sound are in the country of the strong clan of the\nMacleans, and the people that passed the ferry with me were almost all\nof that clan. The skipper of the boat, on the other hand, was called\nNeil Roy Macrob; and since Mac... |
1,803 | 421_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Henderland arranged for a man who was crossing the Linnhe Loch to Appin to bring David across, thus saving him from two ferry rides. As they reached the shore, David observed some red and metallic colors clashing and asked his host about it. The skipper noted that red coats must be moving into Appin a... | [
"The next day Mr. Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his own\nand was to cross the Linnhe Loch that afternoon into Appin, fishing. Him\nhe prevailed on to take me, for he was one of his flock; and in this way\nI saved a long day's travel and the price of the two public ferries I\nmust otherwise have pa... |
1,804 | 421_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan woke first and spoke to David. David however refused to lift his head and told him that they must part company. Alan demanded to know why and David explained that he did not wish to be near a man who either participated in or committed a murder. By describing how foolish it would be for Alan to take part in a murd... | [
"Alan was the first to come round. He rose, went to the border of the\nwood, peered out a little, and then returned and sat down.",
"\"Well,\" said he, \"yon was a hot burst, David.\"",
"I said nothing, nor so much as lifted my face. I had seen murder done,\nand a great, ruddy, jovial gentleman struck out of li... |
1,805 | 421_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When it grew dark, the two climbed through the heather, coming out in view of a lit house. Many people scurried about but froze as Alan gave three sharp whistles to identify himself. When Alan and David reached the house, they were greeted by James Stewart of the Glens. Alan asked him to speak in English so David could... | [
"Night fell as we were walking, and the clouds, which had broken up in\nthe afternoon, settled in and thickened, so that it fell, for the\nseason of the year, extremely dark. The way we went was over rough\nmountainsides; and though Alan pushed on with an assured manner, I could\nby no means see how he directed him... |
1,806 | 421_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the night, they moved quickly, mostly running as dawn approached. Alan would pause occasionally at a house in order to keep his neighbors updated. When the sun rose, the two were in the middle of a valley, quite visible. The valley appeared empty but Alan ran on, coming soon to a stream. He leapt onto a rock in ... | [
"Sometimes we walked, sometimes ran; and as it drew on to morning, walked\never the less and ran the more. Though, upon its face, that country\nappeared to be a desert, yet there were huts and houses of the people,\nof which we must have passed more than twenty, hidden in quiet places of\nthe hills. When we came to... |
1,807 | 421_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | They walked in the dark uphill until they came to a cleft of a great mountain, named Corrynakiegh, where a cave lay in which they could hide. They remained in this spot for nearly five pleasant days. They could sneak to a spot near the river and make a fire to warm themselves and cook the fish they caught in the river.... | [
"Early as day comes in the beginning of July, it was still dark when we\nreached our destination, a cleft in the head of a great mountain, with a\nwater running through the midst, and upon the one hand a shallow cave\nin a rock. Birches grew there in a thin, pretty wood, which a little\nfarther on was changed into ... |
1,808 | 421_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By morning, after hours of traveling, Alan and David reached the end of the mountains. Beyond them, the moor let off a mist that draped the land, and any soldiers on it. Alan stopped and asked David if he wished to risk continuing or rest for the night. Alan described how dangers lay all around so that Eastward was the... | [
"Some seven hours' incessant, hard travelling brought us early in the\nmorning to the end of a range of mountains. In front of us there lay a\npiece of low, broken, desert land, which we must now cross. The sun was\nnot long up, and shone straight in our eyes; a little, thin mist went up\nfrom the face of the moorl... |
1,809 | 421_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cluny lived in a dwelling called the Cage because of its construction into the side of the mountain behind a wall of trees, dirt, and rocks. It was hidden from view like a wasp's nest. Cluny greeted them in drab, simple wear but with the poise of royalty. He kindly accepted the men into his home. The Cage was quite com... | [
"We came at last to the foot of an exceeding steep wood, which scrambled\nup a craggy hillside, and was crowned by a naked precipice.",
"\"It's here,\" said one of the guides, and we struck up hill.",
"The trees clung upon the slope, like sailors on the shrouds of a ship,\nand their trunks were like the rounds ... |
1,810 | 421_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One of Cluny's gillies, while carrying Alan and David's bags, led them to a hiding place near Loch Rannoch. The march occurred in silence as David was angered by Alan's actions at the Cage and Alan was embarrassed. David thought often of separation. He wished that Alan would suggest the idea. But Alan was not this grac... | [
"Alan and I were put across Loch Errocht under cloud of night, and went\ndown its eastern shore to another hiding-place near the head of Loch\nRannoch, whither we were led by one of the gillies from the Cage. This\nfellow carried all our luggage and Alan's great-coat in the bargain,\ntrotting along under the burthe... |
1,811 | 421_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan knocked on the door of the first house they came to in Balquidder, which was risky for him since some members of the town belonged to an opposing clan. Luckily the house belonged to a Maclaren, who had followed the Stewarts in 1746. David was given a bed and a doctor was quickly ordered. Though David pressed Alan ... | [
"At the door of the first house we came to, Alan knocked, which was of\nno very safe enterprise in such a part of the Highlands as the Braes of\nBalquhidder. No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed\nby small septs, and broken remnants, and what they call \"chiefless\nfolk,\" driven into the wild c... |
1,812 | 421_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In less than a month, David was pronounced well again and he and Alan prepared for their journey. In Alan's eyes, the hunt for them had likely slackened. They would be nearing the Forth, a river just south of the border between the Highlands and the Lowlands. If they went directly over the bridge, Alan hoped, they coul... | [
"The month, as I have said, was not yet out, but it was already far\nthrough August, and beautiful warm weather, with every sign of an early\nand great harvest, when I was pronounced able for my journey. Our money\nwas now run to so low an ebb that we must think first of all on speed;\nfor if we came not soon to Mr... |
1,813 | 421_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, they decided that Alan would fend for himself during the day and, at night, wait in the fields until David whistled a chosen tune. David then proceeded to search for Mr. Rankeillor. Every time he came near asking for directions, however, he was too embarrassed over his clothing and could not. He also real... | [
"The next day it was agreed that Alan should fend for himself till\nsunset; but as soon as it began to grow dark, he should lie in the\nfields by the roadside near to Newhalls, and stir for naught until he\nheard me whistling. At first I proposed I should give him for a signal\nthe \"Bonnie House of Airlie,\" which... |
1,814 | 421_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David felt relieved to see his past likeness return, though he was ashamed to wear borrowed clothes. Mr. Rankeillor brought David back to his cabinet to give him some information on David's father and uncle. He was embarrassed to say that their problems had hinged on a love affair. Remembering his uncle, David thought ... | [
"I made what change I could in my appearance; and blithe was I to look in\nthe glass and find the beggarman a thing of the past, and David Balfour\ncome to life again. And yet I was ashamed of the change too, and, above\nall, of the borrowed clothes. When I had done, Mr. Rankeillor caught\nme on the stair, made me ... |
1,815 | 421_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan knocked loudly for awhile before any movement could be detected but then Ebenezer opened a window. He asked for Alan's business and Alan agreed to sing it. When Alan named David as the subject, Ebenezer at last decided that Alan should come inside. However, Alan refused, desiring to speak in view of his hidden acc... | [
"For some time Alan volleyed upon the door, and his knocking only roused\nthe echoes of the house and neighbourhood. At last, however, I could\nhear the noise of a window gently thrust up, and knew that my uncle\nhad come to his observatory. By what light there was, he would see Alan\nstanding, like a dark shadow, ... |
1,816 | 421_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Though the future was looking bright for David, he still wondered what he should do with Alan and what he might do for James of the Glens. He spoke to Rankeillor about these issues the next morning. Rankeillor felt that David was bound to help Mr. Thomson, but doubted that he should endanger himself in the case of Jame... | [
"So far as I was concerned myself, I had come to port; but I had still\nAlan, to whom I was so much beholden, on my hands; and I felt besides a\nheavy charge in the matter of the murder and James of the Glens. On both\nthese heads I unbosomed to Rankeillor the next morning, walking to and\nfro about six of the cloc... |
1,787 | 421_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The year is 1751, the month is June, and David Balfour is leaving his home at Essendean, in southeast Scotland , to make his fortune. He's seventeen. He's accompanied for a little way by Mr. Campbell, the Minister of Essendean. Davie's mother is dead and his father has also just passed away. Campbell tells Davie of "an... | [
"I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in\nthe month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the\nlast time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine\nupon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time\nI had come as far as the ma... |
1,788 | 421_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the morning of the second day of Davie's long walk. He can finally see Edinburgh in the distance. He asks for directions to the town of Cramond from a local shepherd. Davie keeps walking and reaches the parish of Cramond. He starts asking about the house of Shaws. He notices that when he mentions the house of Shaw... | [
"On the forenoon of the second day, coming to the top of a hill, I saw\nall the country fall away before me down to the sea; and in the midst\nof this descent, on a long ridge, the city of Edinburgh smoking like\na kiln. There was a flag upon the castle, and ships moving or lying\nanchored in the firth; both of whi... |
1,789 | 421_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The door opens and Davie goes in, only to be told to go into the kitchen and not to touch anything. The nightcapped man closes and relocks the door behind Davie, then joins him in the kitchen. Davie gets a better look at him: he is thin, stooped, grey, unshaven, and somewhere between fifty and seventy. Davie thinks he ... | [
"Presently there came a great rattling of chains and bolts, and the\ndoor was cautiously opened and shut to again behind me as soon as I had\npassed.",
"\"Go into the kitchen and touch naething,\" said the voice; and while the\nperson of the house set himself to replacing the defences of the door, I\ngroped my wa... |
1,790 | 421_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After this direct confrontation, Davie is pretty surprised that the rest of the day isn't so bad. After breakfast, he finds Ebenezer's library, which he spends the rest of the afternoon perusing. Davie finds something a little odd, though. On the front page of a pamphlet ), there is an inscription in his dad's handwrit... | [
"For a day that was begun so ill, the day passed fairly well. We had the\nporridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night; porridge and\nsmall beer was my uncle's diet. He spoke but little, and that in the\nsame way as before, shooting a question at me after a long silence; and\nwhen I sought to lead him to ... |
1,791 | 421_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Davie now knows his uncle hates him. He starts imagining how he'll get the better of Ebenezer, and the thought really tickles his fancy. He's feeling pretty full of himself by now. Davie brings Ebenezer down to breakfast, then asks him point blank what is going on. Ebenezer says he'll tell Davie just after breakfast. D... | [
"Much rain fell in the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter\nwintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all\nthat, and before the sun began to peep or the last of the stars had\nvanished, I made my way to the side of the burn, and had a plunge in a\ndeep whirling pool. All aglow fro... |
1,792 | 421_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ransome, Davie, and Ebenezer arrive at Hawes Inn, where they encounter a cool, self-possessed-looking guy: Elias Hoseason, captain of the Covenant. Ebenezer comments that Hoseason keeps his room really hot. Hoseason replies that he's always freezing -- he has cold blood. Ebenezer says all right, we can't help how we're... | [
"As soon as we came to the inn, Ransome led us up the stair to a small\nroom, with a bed in it, and heated like an oven by a great fire of coal.\nAt a table hard by the chimney, a tall, dark, sober-looking man sat\nwriting. In spite of the heat of the room, he wore a thick sea-jacket,\nbuttoned to the neck, and a t... |
1,793 | 421_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Davie regains consciousness, he finds himself tied up and in pain in a dark room. The intense rocking of the ship convinces Davie that they are in a storm. He is so afraid for his future and so angry at his uncle that he faints again. When Davie comes to a second time, seasickness is added to his list of troubles.... | [
"I came to myself in darkness, in great pain, bound hand and foot, and\ndeafened by many unfamiliar noises. There sounded in my ears a roaring\nof water as of a huge mill-dam, the thrashing of heavy sprays, the\nthundering of the sails, and the shrill cries of seamen. The whole world\nnow heaved giddily up, and now... |
1,794 | 421_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Things take a dark turn: one night, a man comes into the forecastle muttering "Shuan had done for him at last" . Captain Hoseason enters as well and addresses Davie . Hoseason tells Davie that, from now on, he's going to serve in the round-house, the highest cabin in a ship , which houses Captain Hoseason, Shuan, and R... | [
"One night, about eleven o'clock, a man of Mr. Riach's watch (which was\non deck) came below for his jacket; and instantly there began to go\na whisper about the forecastle that \"Shuan had done for him at last.\"\nThere was no need of a name; we all knew who was meant; but we had\nscarce time to get the idea right... |
1,795 | 421_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Covenant's bad luck with the winds continues, and the ship makes little progress. Eventually they decide to turn south to stop going against the prevailing winds. On the tenth day of his career as cabin boy, Davie is serving Riach and Hoseason their dinner when the ship suddenly hits something with a bang. It's nig... | [
"More than a week went by, in which the ill-luck that had hitherto\npursued the Covenant upon this voyage grew yet more strongly marked.\nSome days she made a little way; others, she was driven actually back.\nAt last we were beaten so far to the south that we tossed and tacked to\nand fro the whole of the ninth da... |
1,796 | 421_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The captain gets impatient waiting on deck and sticks his head through the open door. Alan meets Hoseason with his drawn sword and tells him to prepare for a battle. Hoseason doesn't reply directly, but he does tell Davie that he'll remember this. Davie's not exactly afraid, but he's really, really keyed up: he's prett... | [
"But now our time of truce was come to an end. Those on deck had waited\nfor my coming till they grew impatient; and scarce had Alan spoken, when\nthe captain showed face in the open door.",
"\"Stand!\" cried Alan, and pointed his sword at him. The captain stood,\nindeed; but he neither winced nor drew back a foo... |
1,797 | 421_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Alan and Davie are eating breakfast, Davie gloats a bit over the fact that Riach and Hoseason - who both like their alcohol - now have no access either to the round-house or to their drinks. Alan offers Davie one of the silver buttons off his coat and says that if he shows that button to a friend of Alan Breck, h... | [
"Alan and I sat down to breakfast about six of the clock. The floor was\ncovered with broken glass and in a horrid mess of blood, which took away\nmy hunger. In all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable\nbut merry; having ousted the officers from their own cabin, and having\nat command all the drink ... |
1,798 | 421_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The west coast of Scotland has a bunch of tiny islands and long inlets that are hard to picture without a map. In fact, Davie advises that you look at a map to see where the action's happening: they're currently approaching the island of Mull. Davie and Alan kick back and smoke some of Hoseason's tobacco in the round-h... | [
"Before we had done cleaning out the round-house, a breeze sprang up from\na little to the east of north. This blew off the rain and brought out\nthe sun.",
"And here I must explain; and the reader would do well to look at a map.\nOn the day when the fog fell and we ran down Alan's boat, we had been\nrunning thro... |
1,799 | 421_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's late at night and Captain Hoseason comes into the round-house. Hoseason asks Alan if he can steer a boat. Alan is suspicious, but Hoseason assures Alan that he is just worried about the safety of his boat. Alan and Davie both leave the roundhouse. The ship is currently off Scotland's west coast island of Mull. The... | [
"It was already late at night, and as dark as it ever would be at that\nseason of the year (and that is to say, it was still pretty bright),\nwhen Hoseason clapped his head into the round-house door.",
"\"Here,\" said he, \"come out and see if ye can pilot.\"",
"\"Is this one of your tricks?\" asked Alan.",
"... |
1,800 | 421_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Davie informs us that this next part is the worst thing that will happen to him during the course of his story. He's shipwrecked and wet, on a cold night, on a seemingly completely deserted island. When dawn comes, Davie climbs a nearby hill to see if he can spot the ship, but he can't. The Covenant has sunk. Davie set... | [
"With my stepping ashore I began the most unhappy part of my adventures.\nIt was half-past twelve in the morning, and though the wind was broken\nby the land, it was a cold night. I dared not sit down (for I thought\nI should have frozen), but took off my shoes and walked to and fro upon\nthe sand, bare-foot, and b... |
1,801 | 421_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A "ross" is a peninsula , and the Ross of Mull is a specific southwestern part of the island of Mull . This is where Davie winds up when he crosses the dried-up creek. It's not an area he's at all familiar with - the only landmark he knows is the hill called Ben More. Davie walks towards the line of smoke he saw from E... | [
"The Ross of Mull, which I had now got upon, was rugged and trackless,\nlike the isle I had just left; being all bog, and brier, and big stone.\nThere may be roads for them that know that country well; but for my part\nI had no better guide than my own nose, and no other landmark than Ben\nMore.",
"I aimed as wel... |
1,802 | 421_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're still following Davie's travels. This map continues to be a really helpful guide to where the heck Davie actually is at any given time. Right now he's at Torosay, which is across a "strait" that connects to Kinlochaline on the Scottish mainland. Davie wants to catch the ferry across this strait, which is steered ... | [
"There is a regular ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline on the mainland.\nBoth shores of the Sound are in the country of the strong clan of the\nMacleans, and the people that passed the ferry with me were almost all\nof that clan. The skipper of the boat, on the other hand, was called\nNeil Roy Macrob; and since Mac... |
1,803 | 421_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henderland arranges for one of his parishioners, a fisherman, to take Davie by boat to Linnhe Loch in the country of Appin, which is Davie's final destination. As Davie travels to Appin , he sees a troop of red-coated soldiers, which makes him worry about Alan. The fisherman drops Davie off at Lettermore, a forest in A... | [
"The next day Mr. Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his own\nand was to cross the Linnhe Loch that afternoon into Appin, fishing. Him\nhe prevailed on to take me, for he was one of his flock; and in this way\nI saved a long day's travel and the price of the two public ferries I\nmust otherwise have pa... |
1,804 | 421_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan wakes up before Davie does and greets him. But Davie is in no mood to talk: he's just witnessed a murder, and he's sure that Alan is at least partly responsible for it. Davie tells Alan that they must "twine" , or go their separate ways, because while Davie likes Alan, he is bad news. Alan says he won't part with ... | [
"Alan was the first to come round. He rose, went to the border of the\nwood, peered out a little, and then returned and sat down.",
"\"Well,\" said he, \"yon was a hot burst, David.\"",
"I said nothing, nor so much as lifted my face. I had seen murder done,\nand a great, ruddy, jovial gentleman struck out of li... |
1,805 | 421_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once darkness falls, Alan and Davie head toward Aucharn, home of James Stewart. They arrive at around 10:30 at night, and there are men bustling all around the house. Alan uses three whistles to indicate that he and Davie are there. A tall, handsome man meets Davie and Alan at the gate to the yard. He addresses them in... | [
"Night fell as we were walking, and the clouds, which had broken up in\nthe afternoon, settled in and thickened, so that it fell, for the\nseason of the year, extremely dark. The way we went was over rough\nmountainsides; and though Alan pushed on with an assured manner, I could\nby no means see how he directed him... |
1,806 | 421_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even though Alan and Davie are moving as quickly as they can across the barren, rocky countryside, Alan still takes the time to knock on every door they pass to let the local people know about the murder. More than half of them have been informed already. They're in such a rush that Davie isn't really clear on the path... | [
"Sometimes we walked, sometimes ran; and as it drew on to morning, walked\never the less and ran the more. Though, upon its face, that country\nappeared to be a desert, yet there were huts and houses of the people,\nof which we must have passed more than twenty, hidden in quiet places of\nthe hills. When we came to... |
1,807 | 421_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before dawn, Alan and Davie reach their goal: a giant cleft in the peak of a mountain that gives them a view of the sea and parts of both Appin and Mamore, the land of the Camerons. This cleft in the mountain is called the Heugh of Corrynakiegh. They spend five days in a cave nestled in this cleft, sleeping on beds mad... | [
"Early as day comes in the beginning of July, it was still dark when we\nreached our destination, a cleft in the head of a great mountain, with a\nwater running through the midst, and upon the one hand a shallow cave\nin a rock. Birches grew there in a thin, pretty wood, which a little\nfarther on was changed into ... |
1,808 | 421_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan and Davie travel for a solid seven hours until they reach a patch of barren, open ground they have to cross. Alan says that this is a "kittle" bit - Scots for tricky or perplexing. Davie is confused: he thinks that Alan is just asking if Davie can go on when he must be tired. But no, says Alan, the issue is this: ... | [
"Some seven hours' incessant, hard travelling brought us early in the\nmorning to the end of a range of mountains. In front of us there lay a\npiece of low, broken, desert land, which we must now cross. The sun was\nnot long up, and shone straight in our eyes; a little, thin mist went up\nfrom the face of the moorl... |
1,809 | 421_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cluny's house, on top of a rocky cliff, is known as "Cluny's Cage" , and it's built around a thick group of trees used as living supports for the structure. Since the end of the Jacobite uprising in 1746, Cluny had spent his time moving from hiding place to hiding place, from caves to the homes of his clansmen to this ... | [
"We came at last to the foot of an exceeding steep wood, which scrambled\nup a craggy hillside, and was crowned by a naked precipice.",
"\"It's here,\" said one of the guides, and we struck up hill.",
"The trees clung upon the slope, like sailors on the shrouds of a ship,\nand their trunks were like the rounds ... |
1,810 | 421_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After this squabble, Alan and Davie set out east, on the other side of Loch Errocht , accompanied by one of Cluny's servants as a guide. Things are awkward: Davie is angry at Alan for taking his money and losing it, and Alan is ashamed and angry at Davie for taking it so hard. With their friendship strained, Davie thin... | [
"Alan and I were put across Loch Errocht under cloud of night, and went\ndown its eastern shore to another hiding-place near the head of Loch\nRannoch, whither we were led by one of the gillies from the Cage. This\nfellow carried all our luggage and Alan's great-coat in the bargain,\ntrotting along under the burthe... |
1,811 | 421_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Here's the problem with the region of Balquhidder: unlike Mamore or Appin , this is an area that doesn't belong to any single clan in particular. There are lots of different smaller groups struggling amongst one another. Luckily, the door Alan knocks on first belongs to a member of the Maclaren family, who are allied w... | [
"At the door of the first house we came to, Alan knocked, which was of\nno very safe enterprise in such a part of the Highlands as the Braes of\nBalquhidder. No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed\nby small septs, and broken remnants, and what they call \"chiefless\nfolk,\" driven into the wild c... |
1,812 | 421_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan and Davie are now so broke that they have to try and resolve Davie's inheritance problems or else they'll starve. So they wind up planning to cross the Forth River directly into the Lowlands, again using the logic that the most obvious path is sometimes the best for throwing their pursuers off the track. They deci... | [
"The month, as I have said, was not yet out, but it was already far\nthrough August, and beautiful warm weather, with every sign of an early\nand great harvest, when I was pronounced able for my journey. Our money\nwas now run to so low an ebb that we must think first of all on speed;\nfor if we came not soon to Mr... |
1,813 | 421_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan lies low for the day as Davie goes to visit his lawyer, Mr. Rankeillor, the man whom his uncle Ebenezer didn't want him to meet. Davie's really nervous about speaking to Mr. Rankeillor because he has no evidence for his story, no money, and he's on the run from the law. He walks up and down the main street in Quee... | [
"The next day it was agreed that Alan should fend for himself till\nsunset; but as soon as it began to grow dark, he should lie in the\nfields by the roadside near to Newhalls, and stir for naught until he\nheard me whistling. At first I proposed I should give him for a signal\nthe \"Bonnie House of Airlie,\" which... |
1,814 | 421_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Davie is pleased to look a little more like himself and less like a beggar. Mr. Rankeillor brings him into his office once again and offers to tell him the whole story of his father and uncle. When he was a younger man, Ebenezer Balfour was a fine-looking gentleman with a good spirit. He ran away to join the Jacobite r... | [
"I made what change I could in my appearance; and blithe was I to look in\nthe glass and find the beggarman a thing of the past, and David Balfour\ncome to life again. And yet I was ashamed of the change too, and, above\nall, of the borrowed clothes. When I had done, Mr. Rankeillor caught\nme on the stair, made me ... |
1,815 | 421_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan knocks violently on the door until Ebenezer appears from the upstairs window holding his blunderbuss, just as he did when Davie first arrived. Alan calls up that he's here to speak to Ebenezer about Davie. Ebenezer says he'll let Alan in. Alan says he has no plans to enter Ebenezer's house. He wants to have this c... | [
"For some time Alan volleyed upon the door, and his knocking only roused\nthe echoes of the house and neighbourhood. At last, however, I could\nhear the noise of a window gently thrust up, and knew that my uncle\nhad come to his observatory. By what light there was, he would see Alan\nstanding, like a dark shadow, ... |
1,816 | 421_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There's still, of course, an Alan Breck Stewart-shaped problem in all of this: what's Davie supposed to do with his Highland friend? Rankeillor tells Davie that he owes "Mr. Thomson" a debt of honor, so he has to help "Mr. Thomson" out of the country. But as for James Stewart , he's lost. The Duke of Argyle has a perso... | [
"So far as I was concerned myself, I had come to port; but I had still\nAlan, to whom I was so much beholden, on my hands; and I felt besides a\nheavy charge in the matter of the murder and James of the Glens. On both\nthese heads I unbosomed to Rankeillor the next morning, walking to and\nfro about six of the cloc... |
1,787 | 421_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws The first chapter introduces David Balfour, the hero of the novel. David is a young boy of seventeen who has grown up in the town of Essendean, in the Lowlands of Scotland. David's father has recently died, leaving David an orphan, since his mother died some time ago. Dav... | [
"I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in\nthe month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the\nlast time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine\nupon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time\nI had come as far as the ma... |
1,788 | 421_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I Come to My Journey's End David walks two days toward Edinburgh. It is his first time in the city, and he is taken aback by the sight. He is especially interested in the ships he sees in the harbor. But he continues westward past Edinburgh, toward Cramond, where the House of Shaws is situated. He sees a troop of Briti... | [
"On the forenoon of the second day, coming to the top of a hill, I saw\nall the country fall away before me down to the sea; and in the midst\nof this descent, on a long ridge, the city of Edinburgh smoking like\na kiln. There was a flag upon the castle, and ships moving or lying\nanchored in the firth; both of whi... |
1,789 | 421_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle The old man allows David into the house, which is bare and just as run-down as the outside. The old man has many locks upon the door, and David thinks he is a servant. He is shocked to learn that the old man is, in fact, his uncle. The uncle asks whether he has read the letter he has bro... | [
"Presently there came a great rattling of chains and bolts, and the\ndoor was cautiously opened and shut to again behind me as soon as I had\npassed.",
"\"Go into the kitchen and touch naething,\" said the voice; and while the\nperson of the house set himself to replacing the defences of the door, I\ngroped my wa... |
1,790 | 421_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws David spends most of the day hanging around the House of Shaws. He finds a book in the library, signed by his father and dedicated to his Uncle Ebenezer on his fifth birthday. This confuses David, since he feels sure that Uncle Ebenezer must be much older than his father. It c... | [
"For a day that was begun so ill, the day passed fairly well. We had the\nporridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night; porridge and\nsmall beer was my uncle's diet. He spoke but little, and that in the\nsame way as before, shooting a question at me after a long silence; and\nwhen I sought to lead him to ... |
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