I'm glad enough to be Alexander Smollett, bad as he is; and I thank my stars upon my knees that I'm not Silver. But there's the ink-bottle opening. To quarters! And indeed the author was just then begining to write the words: CHAPTER XXXIII R.L. Stevenson, The Persons of the Tale

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An old copy of Fables, by Robert Louis Stevenson, which includes the story, “ The Persons of the Tale.”

I'm glad enough to be Alexander ​Smollett, bad as he is; and I thank my stars upon my knees that I'm not Silver. But there's the ink-bottle opening. To quarters! And indeed the author was just then begining to write the words: CHAPTER XXXIII R.L. Stevenson, The Persons of the Tale