| Direct He Him His | Indirect Tu Tum Tus |
Ex.: He seized tum by tus throat; but tu at the same moment caught him by his hair. A fellow could write hurricanes with an inflection like that! Yet there would be difficulties too.
Please add to my former orders—
Le Chevalier Des Touches Les Diabohques | } | by Barbey d’Aurevilly. |
Correspondence de Henri Beyle (Stendahl). |
Yours sincerely,
R. L. Stevenson.
To the Rev. S. J. Whitmee
In this letter the essential points of Stevenson’s policy for Samoa are defined more clearly than anywhere else. His correspondent, an experienced missionary who had been absent from the islands and lately returned, and whom Stevenson describes as being of a nature essentially “childlike and candid,” had been induced to support the idea of a one-man power as necessary for putting an end to the existing confusion, and to suggest the Chief Justice, Mr. Cedercrantz, as the person to wield such power. In the present letter and a subsequent conversation Stevenson was able to persuade his correspondent to abandon at least that part of his proposal which concerned the Chief Justice.
[Vailima] Sunday. Better Day, Better Deed.
April 24th, 1892.