description: There were two circumstances that served me as ballast to so much sail. The first was the very difficult and deadly business I had still to handle; the second, the place that I was in. The tall, black city, and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk, made a new world for me, after the moorland braes, the sea-sands and the still country-sides that I had frequented up to then. The throng of the citizens in particular abashed me. Rankeillor's son was short and small in the girth; his clothes scarce held on me; and it was plain I was ill qualified to strut in the front of a bank-porter. It was plain, if I did so, I should but set folk laughing, and (what was worse in my case) set them asking questions. So that I behooved to come by some clothes of my own, and in the meanwhile to walk by the porter's side, and put my hand on his arm as though we were a pair of friends.Includes a biography of the author.
language: English
title: David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home And Abroad, Second Part
titlecomplete: David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home And Abroad, Second Part
characters: Catriona Drummond, Alan Breck Stewart, David Balfour
genres: Historical, Literature, Novels, Scotland, Romance, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, British Literature
ratings_count: 1484
places: Scotland, Leiden, Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
series: David Balfour
publisher: Indypublish.Com