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"Catriona" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novel published in 1893 as a sequel to "Kidnapped". The story follows David Balfour as he attempts to secure justice for a man wrongly accused of murder in 18th-century Scotland. When his efforts fail, David meets and falls in love with Catriona Drummond, daughter of an imprisoned Scottish outlaw. Their relationship unfolds across Scotland, Holland, and France amid political intrigue, betrayal, and adventure, as David navigates both dangerous conspiracies and the mysteries of romance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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To
CHARLES BAXTER, Writer to the Signet.

My Dear Charles,

It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them;
and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre
in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late
re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when
I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There
should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some
long-legged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and
wanderings of so many years ago; he will relish the pleasure, which
should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered
houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and
Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park, and Pilrig, and poor old
Lochend—if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins—if there be any
of them left; or to push (on a long holiday) so far afield as Gillane
or the Bass. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series
of the generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and
nugatory gift of life.

You are still—as when first I saw, as when I last addressed you—in the
venerable city which I must always think of as my home. And I have come
so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see
like a vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and the whole
stream of lives flowing down there far in the north, with the sound of
laughter and tears, to cast me out in the end, as by a sudden freshet,
on these ultimate islands. And I admire and bow my head before the
romance of destiny.

R. L. S.

Vailima, Upolu,
Samoa, 1892.

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