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1  Rapidly I described to him my adventures, and he heard me out in silence.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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2  It would have been a poor end of my adventures to get shot down by my own party in mistake.
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3  He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh-water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.
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4  All was drawing alow and aloft; everyone was in the bravest spirits because we were now so near an end of the first part of our adventure.
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5  The scheme had an air of adventure that inspired me, and the thought of the water breaker beside the fore companion doubled my growing courage.
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6  Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
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7  I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving; and now, at sight of this clumsy stranger, who was to stay here in my place beside my mother, I had my first attack of tears.
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8  The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures.
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