Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? And so, my dear Sidney Colvin, it is with pride that I sign myself affectionately yours, Yet through the letter is directed to all, we have an old and kindly custom of addressing it on the outside to one. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. They alone take his meaning they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped for them in every corner. They keep us worthy of ourselves and when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent.Įvery book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world – all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. Scanned and proofed by David with a Donkey in the Cevennes Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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