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Quotation from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
“I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house”
Kidnapped, Chapter I (1886 text)
The opening sentence sets the date and the moment David leaves his dead father's house for the unknown House of Shaws.
Citation: "I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house" — Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Chapter I (1886 text). (id kidnapped-q1)
Portrait: RLS Kidnapped 1886 US, Robert Louis Stevenson, Public domain.
