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Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson

book · Item 189

A reason to turn the page

He says fortune sits under their feet while they skulk—one man's fury at cowardice breaks the air.

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“You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg! You’d be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it’s here, and you stand there skulking. There wasn’t one of you dared face Bill, and I did it--a blind man! And I’m to lose my chance for you! I’m to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still.”