The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, volume 11, Catriona: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour

This volume consists of "Catriona", AKA David Balfour, sequel to the classic historical novel "Kidnapped". The story begins: "The 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yester morning, I was like a beggarman by the wayside, clad in rags, brought down to my last shillings, my companion a condemned traitor, a price set on my own head for a crime with the news of which the country rang. To-day I was served heir to my position in life, a landed laird, a bank-porter by me carrying my gold, recommendations in my pocket, and (in the words of the saying) the ball directly at my foot."