Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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let it out slowly,

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Tonight we're relaxing with part two of Edinburgh picturesque notes by Robert Lewis Stevenson, first published in 1878 and republished in 1903 by

Seelian Co. Limited. 38 Great Russell Street, London.

Let's pick up where we left off.

Chapter 4. Legends.

The character of a place is often most perfectly expressed in its associations.

An event strikes root and grows into a legend when it has happened

amongst congenial surroundings. Ugly actions, above all in ugly places, have the true romantic quality, and become

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