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1,791 | 421_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I Go to the Queen's Ferry David sleeps a restless night, aware of his uncle's great dislike, even hatred of him. But, in his youth, David thinks himself the better man, and makes plans to trick his uncle and get the upper hand of him, and eventually to control him. When he confronts his uncle the next morning, the uncl... | [
"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. | What Befell at the Queen's Ferry David and Ebenezer meet Hoseason, who is staying in an inn. Ebenezer sends David down to amuse himself while he and the captain speak. David goes and speaks to the sailors of the Covenant, whom he finds to be rather dirty and rude. He talks with the bartender of the inn, who informs him... | [
"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. | I Go to Sea in the Brig "Covenant" of Dysart David awakens in the brig of the Covenant, in pain and bound by ropes on his hands and feet. He is suffering from seasickness as well, and each lurch of the ship brings a fresh batch of pains. Several days and nights pass as David wanders in and out of consciousness and he i... | [
"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. | The Round-House Ransome is brought into the forecastle; Mr. Shuan has killed him. Hoseason orders David to become the new cabin boy. He sends him to the Round-House, the officers' cabin. Shuan is a wreck; killing the boy has ruined his already tenuous sanity. David becomes used to his duties, and finds it not so bad a ... | [
"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... |
1,796 | 421_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Siege of the Round-House Captain Hoseason enters the Round-House to discover Alan and David prepared for battle. A few moments later, the battle begins as the Captain and his men attack Alan, while David guards the rear of the Round-House. Several men attempt to break the rear door down with a battle-ram; David fir... | [
"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. | The Captain Knuckles Under Alan and David are now in control of the Round-House, which has most of the food and all of the liquor. Alan seems certain that the Captain and his first mate Riach will surrender soon, primarily due to their lack of alcohol. In honor of David's brave performance, and for saving Alan's life, ... | [
"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 ... |
1,799 | 421_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Loss of the Brig Hoseason comes to the Round-House and informs Alan and David that something is wrong. He asks them to come up, and points to several large rocks in the distance. Alan identifies them as the Torran Rocks, a series of large boulders that just out of the sea and pose a danger to ships. Alan is not sur... | [
"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. | The Islet David finds himself on a small islet, cut off from the mainland by a small river. He tries to cross the river, but finds it is too wide and deep. He returns to the shore to get his piece of wood, planning to try and float across, but the yard has floated back out to sea. David is now miserable. He begins eati... | [
"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... |
1,802 | 421_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven David takes a ferry from Torosay to mainland Scotland. On the way, he sees what he first thinks is an emigrant ship, bound for the American colonies, full of Scottish "criminals" being forced into exile. David speaks to the captain of the ship, who informs him that he is to... | [
"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 Death of the Red Fox David crosses the Linnhe Loch into Appin. Once there, he walks to a side road, pops out of a bush and asks a small group of travelers the way to Aucharn, where Alan is supposed to be waiting for David. The travelers turn out to be none other than Colin Campbell of Glenure, his lawyer, and two o... | [
"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. | I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore Alan and David awake. David is angry; he believes Alan murdered Glenure in cold blood. He wants to part immediately, but Alan is offended and demands an explanation. When David voices his suspicions, Alan denies that he had anything to do with the murder, and points out that h... | [
"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. | The House of Fear Alan and David move through the night and reached the house of James Stewart, the lead of Alan's clan. James, his family, and his clansmen are in a nervous flurry of activity. James is certain he will be blamed for the murder of Colin Campbell. James offers David and Alan a change of clothes. Alan ref... | [
"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. | The Flight in the Heather: the Rocks David and Alan begin fleeing through the Highland wilderness. They reach a rushing river, broken up at one point by several large rocks. Alan and David leap to one rock, halfway across, and then Alan leaps to the other bank, but David nearly freezes in fear. David makes the second j... | [
"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... |
1,808 | 421_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Flight in the Heather: The Moors David and Alan hike for seven hours and come to the end of mountain range. Now they must decide which direction to go in. Appin, to the west, is crawling with soldiers. The land to the south is crawling with Campbells, and going north will not work for David, who wants to get to Edi... | [
"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 Cage Cluny welcomes them to his home in Ben Alder. It is a hut made from trees, leaves and other natural things, and it serves as an excellent hideout. Cluny is a fugitive chief of a clan put down by the English government. He lives well in his small home, but he can hardly ever leave. He has been cooped up so ... | [
"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. | The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel Alan and David continue their hike through the woods. David is still angry at Alan, who is miserable, knowing he has done David a wrong. But David is very angry, and he cannot bring himself to forgive Alan. Alan apologizes, but David remains bitter. Alan offers, perhaps a bit chil... | [
"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. | In Balquhidder Alan takes the sick and exhausted David to a house in Balquhidder, which is fortunately a house of the Stewart-friendly McLarens. The owner takes David in and puts him in a bed, and the area doctor is called for. Soon the whole surrounding community is aware that they are harboring Alan Breck Stewart and... | [
"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. | End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth It is late August, and Alan and David finally choose to depart Balquhidder. They plan to head south, cross the Forth River into Stirling, and head into Edinburgh from there. They go to the bridge, but there is a guard. Instead, they sneak down the river to the small town of Limekiln... | [
"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. | I Come to Mr. Rankeillor David and Alan arrange to meet again later in the day, after David has spoken to his lawyer, Mr. Rankeillor. After wandering the streets of Newhalls looking for Rankeillor. He finally runs into the man by accident, who takes him in, and David unloads the entire story. At the mention of Alan's ... | [
"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. | I Go in Quest of My Inheritance Mr. Rankeillor tells David the truth about David's father, Alexander Balfour, and David's uncle Ebenezer. Ebenezer was the younger of the two brothers, and very handsome at one time. He was admired and beloved by many people. Both men fell for the woman that would become David's mother, ... | [
"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. | I Come Into My Kingdom David, Alan, and Rankeillor go to the House of Shaws. Alan goes up to the door alone and knocks. He tells Ebenezer that he is from a family near the Isle of Mull, and that they discovered David after the shipwreck and held on to him. They are now holding him for ransom. Ebenezer doesn't want to p... | [
"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. | Good-bye David has to help Alan escape to France. He also desires to clear the name of James Stewart of the Glens, but to do so would risk having himself caught and blamed, and possibly hanged. David believes he must perform his duty, which impresses Mr. Rankeillor. Rankeillor gives him two letters. One letter is to th... | [
"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 novel opens with David Balfour's narration of his adventures. On a June morning in 1751, after the death of his father, David leaves the place of his birth to go in search of fortune. The minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, comes forward to bid him good-bye. He also hands over to David a letter written by his fath... | [
"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. | The novel opens with David Balfour's narration of his adventures. On a June morning in 1751, after the death of his father, David leaves the place of his birth to go in search of fortune. The minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, comes forward to bid him good-bye. He also hands over to David a letter written by his fath... | [
"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. | David is ushered into the gloomy house and led to the kitchen by the stranger who answered the door. The room is barely furnished. A bowl of porridge and a glass of beer are on the table. The stranger looks like a crook and is shabbily dressed. David is not able to guess either his age or his profession. The old man of... | [
"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. | David is ushered into the gloomy house and led to the kitchen by the stranger who answered the door. The room is barely furnished. A bowl of porridge and a glass of beer are on the table. The stranger looks like a crook and is shabbily dressed. David is not able to guess either his age or his profession. The old man of... | [
"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. | Waking up the next morning, David starts contemplating the events of the previous night. Assured of his superior strength, he goes up to release his uncle from his room. Shortly afterwards, a cabin boy appears at the door and delivers a letter to Mr. Balfour. Reading the letter, Ebenezer tells David that they will have... | [
"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. | Waking up the next morning, David starts contemplating the events of the previous night. Assured of his superior strength, he goes up to release his uncle from his room. Shortly afterwards, a cabin boy appears at the door and delivers a letter to Mr. Balfour. Reading the letter, Ebenezer tells David that they will have... | [
"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 David regains consciousness, he experiences excruciating pain. The noise of the sea deafens his ears, and the smell of the ship's cabin nauseates him. He feels stiff and realizes his hands and legs are tied up. Restricted in his movements and feeling dizzy in the darkness, he falls down in a swoon. He is awakened ... | [
"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. | When David regains consciousness, he experiences excruciating pain. The noise of the sea deafens his ears, and the smell of the ship's cabin nauseates him. He feels stiff and realizes his hands and legs are tied up. Restricted in his movements and feeling dizzy in the darkness, he falls down in a swoon. He is awakened ... | [
"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. | Ten days after the start of its journey, the "Covenant" strikes another boat while heading south on a foggy night. Only one occupant of the boat survives, and he is brought to the Round- house. He is a small man, but appears to be strong and agile. In spite of the accident and the death of all his other shipmates, the ... | [
"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. | Ten days after the start of its journey, the "Covenant" strikes another boat while heading south on a foggy night. Only one occupant of the boat survives, and he is brought to the Round- house. He is a small man, but appears to be strong and agile. In spite of the accident and the death of all his other shipmates, the ... | [
"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. | At six o'clock the next morning, Alan and David assess their position. They are satisfied with their performance in the fight. In the aftermath of victory, they sit down to have a drink. Alan commends David for his abilities and gives him a silver button from his coat as a mark of friendship. A short while later, Mr. R... | [
"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. | At six o'clock the next morning, Alan and David assess their position. They are satisfied with their performance in the fight. In the aftermath of victory, they sit down to have a drink. Alan commends David for his abilities and gives him a silver button from his coat as a mark of friendship. A short while later, Mr. R... | [
"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. | At six o'clock the next morning, Alan and David assess their position. They are satisfied with their performance in the fight. In the aftermath of victory, they sit down to have a drink. Alan commends David for his abilities and gives him a silver button from his coat as a mark of friendship. A short while later, Mr. R... | [
"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. | It is late when David reaches the shore. He aimlessly walks along the deserted beach until daybreak. Then, he climbs to the top of a rugged hill to view his surroundings and to search the sea. He is not able to see the "Covenant" or any other boat; neither does he spy any humans. As he turns and walks towards the south... | [
"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 is late when David reaches the shore. He aimlessly walks along the deserted beach until daybreak. Then, he climbs to the top of a rugged hill to view his surroundings and to search the sea. He is not able to see the "Covenant" or any other boat; neither does he spy any humans. As he turns and walks towards the south... | [
"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 travels by ferry from Torosay to the mainland. Although the boat is crowded, David enjoys the ride. The friendly passengers entertain him with their Gaelic boat-songs, while the sea air and bright weather lift his spirits. This pleasant atmosphere becomes clouded for a while when they catch sight of a massive shi... | [
"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. | David travels by ferry from Torosay to the mainland. Although the boat is crowded, David enjoys the ride. The friendly passengers entertain him with their Gaelic boat-songs, while the sea air and bright weather lift his spirits. This pleasant atmosphere becomes clouded for a while when they catch sight of a massive shi... | [
"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. | David travels by ferry from Torosay to the mainland. Although the boat is crowded, David enjoys the ride. The friendly passengers entertain him with their Gaelic boat-songs, while the sea air and bright weather lift his spirits. This pleasant atmosphere becomes clouded for a while when they catch sight of a massive shi... | [
"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. | Under cover of night, David and Alan walk through the mountains to reach the house of James of the Glens. The lighted house has its door open, but soldiers walk around it with their weapons. James comes forward to welcome Alan in Gaelic. He looks anxious and predicts disturbances in the area as a consequence of the dea... | [
"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. | Under cover of night, David and Alan walk through the mountains to reach the house of James of the Glens. The lighted house has its door open, but soldiers walk around it with their weapons. James comes forward to welcome Alan in Gaelic. He looks anxious and predicts disturbances in the area as a consequence of the dea... | [
"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. | Alan and David move stealthily through the mountains in the dark until they reach a cave with a stream close by. In this pleasant hideout they spend five days cooking porridge, grilling trout and sleeping on heather beds. Alan decides to send word to James of the Glens about his safety. In the night he visits the house... | [
"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 David move stealthily through the mountains in the dark until they reach a cave with a stream close by. In this pleasant hideout they spend five days cooking porridge, grilling trout and sleeping on heather beds. Alan decides to send word to James of the Glens about his safety. In the night he visits the house... | [
"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. | When they reach Cluny's dwelling, the Jacobite leader welcomes Alan and David with open arms. The strange house, called 'Cluny's Cage,' is mounted on a hillside with a tree serving as the central beam for the roof. The cage, which is comfortable, serves as one of Cluny's hideouts. Cluny plays the part of a good host by... | [
"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. | When they reach Cluny's dwelling, the Jacobite leader welcomes Alan and David with open arms. The strange house, called 'Cluny's Cage,' is mounted on a hillside with a tree serving as the central beam for the roof. The cage, which is comfortable, serves as one of Cluny's hideouts. Cluny plays the part of a good host by... | [
"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 and David arrive at the house of Duncan Dhu Maclaren, who welcomes them with open arms and does his best to keep them in comfort. David is put to bed and the doctor is called. Under the doctor's supervision and the care provided by Duncan's family, David regains his health in a month's time. While David lives in t... | [
"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 David arrive at the house of Duncan Dhu Maclaren, who welcomes them with open arms and does his best to keep them in comfort. David is put to bed and the doctor is called. Under the doctor's supervision and the care provided by Duncan's family, David regains his health in a month's time. While David lives in t... | [
"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. | On reaching land, David walks towards Queensferry to go the residence of Mr. Rankeillor, his attorney. In the meantime, Alan hides himself in the fields by the roadside. David meets the lawyer, who inquires about his birth and parentage before inviting him to dine with him. Mr. Rankeillor hears the boy's tales of adven... | [
"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. | On reaching land, David walks towards Queensferry to go the residence of Mr. Rankeillor, his attorney. In the meantime, Alan hides himself in the fields by the roadside. David meets the lawyer, who inquires about his birth and parentage before inviting him to dine with him. Mr. Rankeillor hears the boy's tales of adven... | [
"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. | Mr. Ebenezer makes his appearance first at the window and then at the door. He listens to Alan's claim that he has news of David. Armed with a gun, he threatens Alan of the consequences if he is proved a liar. Ebenezer then listens to Alan's fabricated tale of how David had been saved from drowning and kept in a ruined... | [
"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. | Mr. Ebenezer makes his appearance first at the window and then at the door. He listens to Alan's claim that he has news of David. Armed with a gun, he threatens Alan of the consequences if he is proved a liar. Ebenezer then listens to Alan's fabricated tale of how David had been saved from drowning and kept in a ruined... | [
"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_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The sixteen-year-old narrator, David Balfour, begins his story one morning in June 1751 as he is leaving his family home in Essendean, in the Lowlands of Scotland to seek his fortune. His father has recently died and his mother has been dead for some time. Mr. Campbell, the preacher who has looked after David since his... | [
"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_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his second day of walking, David reaches the neighborhood of the house of Shaws. When he asks passers-by for directions, he finds that they are wary of the place and of Ebenezer, and warn him against going there. Near sundown, David asks a woman for further directions. She points out a ruined house in the next valle... | [
"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_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The man lets David into the house, which is as bare and run-down on the inside as it is on the outside. The table is set with a poor meal of porridge. The man is wearing a nightgown over a ragged shirt, and David wonders if he is an elderly servant. The man demands to see David's letter, but David says it is for Mr. Ba... | [
"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_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Examining Ebenezer's books, David finds one with an inscription on the flyleaf in his father's mature style of handwriting. It reads: "To my brother Ebenezer on his fifth birthday. David is baffled. He had assumed that his father was the younger brother, as then Ebenezer, as the elder and first-born son, would have inh... | [
"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_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David feels proud of having defeated his uncle's plot to kill him, and fantasizes about taking "the upper hand," driving him "like a herd of sheep," and becoming "that man's king and ruler. When he confronts his uncle the next morning, Ebenezer tries to pass off his actions as a joke. There is a knock at the door. It i... | [
"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_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Ebenezer and Hoseason talk business in an upstairs room, Ebenezer sends David downstairs to amuse himself. David walks to the beach and chats to some of the sailors, who are a rough bunch of men. Then he talks to the landlord of the inn, who calls Ebenezer a wicked old man. He says that Jennet Clouston is not the... | [
"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_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David regains consciousness and finds himself tied up in the dark underbelly of the Covenant. He is furious with his uncle and with his own folly, and is suffering from seasickness. Mr. Riach, the second officer, arrives, gives David a drink of brandy, and brings Hoseason to look at him. Riach tells Hoseason that David... | [
"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_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night, Shuan kills Ransome. Ransome's body is carried into the forecastle. Hoseason orders David to be the new cabin boy, and sends David to the round-house, the officers' quarters, where he will work and sleep. The round-house is where the best food and drink, and the firearms, gunpowder and cutlasses are stored. ... | [
"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_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Covenant runs into a boat. There is one survivor, who is brought aboard. The man is a Scot dressed in fine French clothes. In conversation with Hoseason, the man reveals that he is a Jacobite, or supporter of the Stewart/Stuart claim to the English throne. The Jacobites were Catholics. The man says that he fought a... | [
"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_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hoseason appears at the door of the round-house and finds Alan and David guarding it. Moments later, members of the crew attack the round-house, and the battle begins. Alan kills two men with his sword, including Shuan, and David grazes Hoseason with a bullet. The attackers briefly retreat before renewing their attack.... | [
"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_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Alan and David eat breakfast amid blood and broken glass. They are in a powerful position because the round-house contains the best food and all the alcohol, and Hoseason and Riach are dependent upon drink. As a token of respect for David's courage in the battle of the round-house, Alan gives him a si... | [
"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_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan and David tell each other the stories of their lives. When David mentions his friend Mr. Campbell, Alan says that he hates everyone with the name of Campbell. He says that he is an Appin Stewart, and that the Campbells have long persecuted the Stewarts and stolen their lands, often using a legal cloak for trickery... | [
"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_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hoseason appears at the round-house door and tells Alan and David that the ship has sailed into an area with reefs, off the Scottish island of Earraid, and there is danger that it may run into them. David sees that Alan is afraid, though he will not admit it. Just as everyone thinks the ship is safely past the reefs, i... | [
"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_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David finds that he is stranded on a small barren island, separated from the mainland by a creek that is too deep to wade across. He cannot swim and the piece of wood he used to bring him to the shore has drifted away, so he cannot use it to float across. The only food he can find is shellfish, which sometimes make him... | [
"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_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David wades across the creek to the mainland, called the Ross of Mull, and aims for a house from which he had seen smoke rising during his time on the island. An old man is sitting outside the house, and tells David that his shipmates have come safely ashore and eaten a meal in his house the day before. Alan is one of ... | [
"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_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David crosses from Torosay to the Scottish mainland on the ferry. On the way, he sees an emigrant ship bound for the American colonies. Those left on the shore are crying at the loss of their loved ones. David speaks to the skipper of the ferry, a fellow clansman of Alan's, who has orders from Alan to keep David safe. ... | [
"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_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Henderland finds a man to take David across the Linnhe Loch to Appin in his boat. On the way, David sees a group of red-coated soldiers of King George. The boatman says that he thinks they are coming to evict the poor Stewart tenants. The boatman sets David ashore near the wood of Lettermore, in Alan's co... | [
"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_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When David and Alan awake next morning, David is angry with Alan and wants to part from him. He believes that Alan is responsible for the murder of Campbell, whether by pulling the trigger himself or ordering someone else to do it. But Alan insists that he had nothing to do with it: if he had planned to kill Campbell, ... | [
"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_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Night falls. Alan and David arrive at the house of James of the Glens, where members of the Stewart clan are busy hiding weapons by digging them into the moss, in anticipation of a raid by King George's forces seeking the culprit of Campbell's murder. James is angry and worried because he thinks that the Appin Stewarts... | [
"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_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan leads David on an exhausting flight through "the heather. They climb onto some tall rocks with a dish-shaped hollow at the top, and hide by lying in the hollow. Alan admits to two mistakes: he took the wrong road, and so has arrived in dangerous country in daylight; and he has forgotten to bring water. Alan tells ... | [
"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_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David and Alan spend five nights sleeping in a cave in a mountain cleft called the Heugh of Corrynakeigh. During the day, they fish and practice sword-fighting. Alan decides to send a message to James of the Glens to ask him for money to enable them to travel to their destinations. He borrows his button from David, str... | [
"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_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan and David arrive at the end of a mountain range and try to decide where to go next. They cannot go into Appin country, as it is too dangerous; to the south lies Campbell land; to the north suits neither David, who wants to go to Queensferry, nor Alan, who is heading for France; so they go east. This is risky, as t... | [
"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_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cluny Macpherson's men, Alan, and David arrive at Cluny's house, which is made from trees and earth and is in the middle of a wood on a cliff. This hiding-place has enabled Cluny to escape the detection of King George's soldiers and has meant that unlike other defeated Jacobite clan leaders, he has not been forced into... | [
"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_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan and David continue their journey in silence. David is angry with Alan for gambling away their money, while Alan is ashamed of himself and angry with David for taking offense. David thinks more and more of parting from Alan, but cannot admit this to Alan, as he knows that Alan loves him. In an attempt at reconcilia... | [
"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_xxv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alan takes the sick David to a house in Balquidder belonging to the Maclarens, a clan friendly to the Stewarts. They put David to bed and call a doctor. David is out of bed after a week, and ready to travel again within a month. Alan refuses to leave David, although David often urges him to do so. Soon, the entire comm... | [
"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_xxvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David and Alan continue on their way, and reach David's home country. He is eager to visit Mr. Rankeillor and claim his inheritance. They reach a bridge, but a sentry is there, so they avoid crossing it and strike out across country. They need to cross the Firth of Forth, the estuary of the River Forth. They reach Lime... | [
"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_xxvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David and Alan arrive in Queensferry. David looks for Mr. Rankeillor and runs into him by accident. Mr. Rankeillor invites him into his house, and David tells him his story, though he is worried at the thought that he is Ebenezer's employee. Mr. Rankeillor says that he was, but no longer. On the day that David was ship... | [
"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_xxviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When David has washed and changed, Mr. Rankeillor tells him the story of his father, Alexander Balfour, and his uncle Ebenezer. When both men were young, they fell in love with the same woman, who was to become David's mother. Ebenezer had felt confident that she would choose him, and when she chose David's father, Ebe... | [
"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_xxix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ebenezer appears at the window with his blunderbuss in answer to Alan's knock. David, Mr. Rankeillor, and Mr. Rankeillor's clerk stand out of sight, as witnesses to the scene that follows. Alan tells Ebenezer that he has come about David. Ebenezer concedes that Alan can come in, but Alan will not; he says they must do ... | [
"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_xxx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | David tells Mr. Rankeillor that he must help Alan escape. He also wants to clear the name of James of the Glens concerning the Appin murder. Mr. Rankeillor agrees that David should help Alan to escape. But if he enters the witness box in court to try to clear James, he risks being tried for the crime himself, found gui... | [
"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... |
1,817 | 19337_stave_one | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jacob Marley, the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, died seven years ago. On a dingy Christmas Eve, Scrooge, a cold, unfriendly miser, works in his counting-house while keeping an eye on his clerk, a small man named Bob Cratchit. Scrooge's nephew wishes Scrooge a merry Christmas, but Scrooge answers him with a disd... | [
"STAVE ONE",
"MARLEY'S GHOST",
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.\nThe register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the\nundertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name\nwas good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to... |
1,818 | 19337_stave_two | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scrooge wakes up, and the bell of a neighborhood church rings from six until twelve, then stops. He wonders if he slept through the day and into another night. He looks out the window to an empty scene. He worries over Marley's ghost and wonders if it was a dream. He remembers the ghost's warning of a visit at one at n... | [
"STAVE TWO",
"THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS",
"When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could\nscarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his\nchamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret\neyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church str... |
1,819 | 19337_stave_three | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scrooge awakes when the bell strikes one, and is immediately prepared for the second Ghost's arrival. After a while, he sees a light come from the adjacent room. A strange voice tells him to enter, and when he does, he sees his room has been decked out with Christmas decorations and a feast. A giant ghost introduces hi... | [
"STAVE THREE",
"THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS",
"Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in\nbed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told\nthat the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he was\nrestored to consciousness in the right nick of tim... |
1,820 | 19337_stave_four | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come solemnly approaches Scrooge in its black garment. It responds to Scrooge's questions with silence and motions for him to follow. They instantly appear in the city and listen in on some businessmen who casually and jokingly discuss someone's death. Scrooge wonders why the Ghost is show... | [
"STAVE FOUR",
"THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS",
"The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him,\nScrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this\nSpirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.",
"It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head... |
1,821 | 19337_stave_five | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scrooge wakes up in his bedroom and joyfully repeats his vow to live from the lessons of the three ghosts. He runs around his house and then outside, where church bells ring. A boy tells him it is Christmas Day, and Scrooge realizes that the ghosts visited him all in one night. Scrooge buys a prize turkey and sends it ... | [
"STAVE FIVE",
"THE END OF IT",
"Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his\nown. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make\namends in!",
"\"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!\" Scrooge repeated\nas he scrambled out of bed. \"The Spirits ... |
1,822 | 42_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narration of the novel begins with two men, Mr. Utterson, a quiet, respectable lawyer, and his distant relative Mr. Richard Enfield, taking a walk through a crowded street in London. On their way, they encounter a mysterious cellar door, which prompts Mr. Enfield to recount a strange experience that happened on thi... | [
"STORY OF THE DOOR",
"MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was\nnever lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in\ndiscourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and\nyet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to\nhis taste, something eminentl... |
1,823 | 42_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening after his walk with Enfield, Utterson returns home and examines Dr. Jekyll's will, which he remembers had strange stipulations referring to the Mr. Hyde Enfield discussed. The will provides that in the case of Henry Jekyll's death or disappearance, all of his possessions should be given to the Edward Hyde.... | [
"SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE",
"THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre\nspirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of\na Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a\nvolume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of\nthe neighbouring ch... |
1,824 | 42_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two weeks later, Dr. Jekyll is holding a dinner party at which Mr. Utterson is a guest. After the guests leave, Utterson confronts Jekyll over the matter of his will and tells him that he has been learning about Mr. Hyde. Jekyll becomes upset when he hears of this and tells Utterson to drop the subject. Utterson urges ... | [
"DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE",
"A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one\nof his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all\nintelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr.\nUtterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had\ndeparted. This was ... |
1,825 | 42_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nearly a year later, a respected member of London society, Sir Danvers Carew, is murdered. A maid sitting by her window in the very early morning hours witnesses the story recounts the event. She gazes out her window, romantically feeling at one with the world, when she sees an aged man with white hair walking along a ... | [
"THE CAREW MURDER CASE",
"NEARLY a year later, in the month of October, 18---, London was\nstartled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more\nnotable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and\nstartling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the\nriver, had gone u... |
1,826 | 42_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the same day of the murder, Mr. Utterson makes his way to Dr. Jekyll's house, and meets with him in his laboratory. Utterson and Jekyll discuss the unfortunate news that Sir Danvers Carew is dead, presumably killed by Mr. Hyde. Jekyll swears that he is not hiding Hyde and that he is, "done with him in this world. Je... | [
"INCIDENT OF THE LETTER",
"IT was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to\nDr. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and\ncarried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had\nonce been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known\nas the laboratory or the ... |
1,827 | 42_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the beginning of Chapter 6, we learn that "time has passed" and no one has been able to capture Hyde. Jekyll, however, free from the evil influence of Hyde, has become a new man. He entertains, devotes himself to charity, and is highly sociable. In early January, Utterson attends a dinner party at Jekyll's home, at ... | [
"REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON",
"TIME ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the\ndeath of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde\nhad disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never\nexisted. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all\ndisreputable: t... |
1,828 | 42_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once again, Mr. Enfield and Mr. Utterson are walking by the mysterious door. Through one of the windows, Utterson spots Dr. Jekyll, whom he has not seen for weeks. Utterson calls to Jekyll and tells him he should get outside more. Jekyll replies that he wishes he could, but doesn't dare. As he finishes his sentence, hi... | [
"INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW",
"IT chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk\nwith Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the\nby-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both\nstopped to gaze on it.",
"\"Well,\" said Enfield, \"that story's at an end at least. We shall\nnev... |
1,829 | 42_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some time later, Utterson is sitting at home by his fireplace when Poole, Jekyll's butler, calls on him. Poole appears quite distraught, and Utterson offers him a glass of wine to calm his nerves. Poole accepts, although he leaves the wine untouched. Poole reveals that he has come to Utterson in desperation. He is seve... | [
"THE LAST NIGHT",
"MR. UTTERSON was sitting by his fireside one evening after\ndinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.",
"\"Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?\" he cried; and then\ntaking a second look at him, \"What ails you?\" he added; \"is the\ndoctor ill?\"",
"\"Mr. Utterson,\" s... |
1,830 | 42_chapters_9-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter nine consists of the text of Lanyon's letter to Utterson, which he was instructed not to open until Lanyon and Jekyll had both died . Lanyon begins at the night after Jekyll's last dinner party. Apparently, he received a very urgent letter from Jekyll that requested Lanyon follow very specific instructions by g... | [
"DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE",
"ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the\nevening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of\nmy colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good\ndeal surprised by this; for we were by no means in the habit of\ncorrespondence; I had seen... |
1,822 | 42_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the novel opens, Mr. Utterson and his friend Richard Enfield are out for their customary Sunday srroll in London. People who know both men find it puzzling that the men are friends; seemingly, they have nothing in common. Yet both men look forward to their weekly Sunday walk as if it were "the chief jewel of each ... | [
"STORY OF THE DOOR",
"MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was\nnever lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in\ndiscourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and\nyet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to\nhis taste, something eminentl... |
1,823 | 42_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening, instead of coming home and ending the day with supper and "a volume of some dry divinity," Mr. Utterson eats, and then he takes a candle and goes into his business room. There, he opens a safe and takes out the will of Dr. Henry Jekyll. He ponders over it for a long time. The terms of the will stipulate t... | [
"SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE",
"THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre\nspirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of\na Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a\nvolume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of\nthe neighbouring ch... |
1,824 | 42_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two weeks later, Dr. Jekyll gives a small dinner party, for which, we gather, he is well known, for the narrator refers to it as being "one of his pleasant dinners." Five or six of Dr. Jekyll's old cronies are invited, and among them is Mr. Utterson. As usual, the food is superb, the wine good, and Utterson manages to ... | [
"DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE",
"A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one\nof his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all\nintelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr.\nUtterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had\ndeparted. This was ... |
1,825 | 42_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This Chapter begins almost a year later and recounts the details of the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, a well-known and highly respected London gentleman. Carew was murdered near midnight on a foggy, full-moon night in October, and his murder was witnessed by a maid who worked and lived in a house not far from the Thames... | [
"THE CAREW MURDER CASE",
"NEARLY a year later, in the month of October, 18---, London was\nstartled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more\nnotable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and\nstartling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the\nriver, had gone u... |
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