Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850 - 1894) | Robert Louis Stevenson (Story Date February-March 1891)
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (STORY DATE FEBRUARY-MARCH 1891)
SOURCE: Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Bottle Imp." In Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, selected by Marvin Kaye, pp. 46-70. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1985.
The following excerpt is from a story written around 1889 and first published in the New York Herald from February to March, 1891.
Now there was an old brutal Haole drinking with him, one that had been a boatswain of a whaler—a runaway, a digger in gold mines, a convict in prisons. He had a low mind and a foul mouth; he loved to drink and to see others drunken; and he pressed the glass upon Keawe. Soon there was no more money in the company.
"Here, you!" says the boatswain, "you are rich, you have been always saying. You have a bottle or some foolishness."
"Yes," says Keawe, "I am rich; I will go back and get some money from my wife, who keeps it."
"That's...
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