THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 3 March 2024
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A young soldier escaping a search party in the dead of night finds an open door to a wealthy home wherein a night of suspense takes place in which the man, unable to escape, must make a series of life and death decisions by daybreak.. Stevenson's imagery, characterization, and suspense clearly show why his stories remain classics.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Oh, you're not. Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. Today a |
| 0:39.6 | story of honor, loyalty and redemption and a love story, the Sire de Malatroy's Door by Robert |
| 0:47.2 | Louis Stevenson. |
| 0:49.8 | And now our story. |
| 0:52.4 | Denise de Bois is not yet two and twenty, but he counted himself a grown man and a very |
| 0:57.5 | accomplished cavalier into the bargain. |
| 1:00.8 | Lads were early formed in that rough wayfaring epic, and when one has been in a pitched battle and a dozen raids, |
| 1:07.0 | has killed one's man in an honorable fashion, and knows a thing or two of strategy and mankind. |
| 1:12.0 | A certain swagger in the gate is surely to be pardoned. |
| 1:16.3 | He had put up his horse with due care and supped with due deliberation and then, in a very |
| 1:22.4 | agreeable frame of mind, went out to pay a visit in the gray |
| 1:25.7 | of the evening. |
| 1:27.9 | It was not a very wise proceeding on the young man's part. |
| 1:31.5 | He would have done better to remain beside the fire or go decently to bed. |
| 1:35.1 | For the town was full of the troops of Burgundy and England under a mixed command. |
| 1:39.7 | And though Denny was there on safe conduct, his safe conduct was like to serve him little on a chance encounter. |
| 1:47.0 | It was September 1429. The weather had fallen sharp. |
| 1:52.0 | A flighty piping wind laden with showers beat about the township, |
| 1:57.0 | and the dead leaves ran right along the streets. |
| 2:00.0 | Here and there a window was already lighted up, and the noise of men at arms making Mary |
| 2:06.0 | over supper within came forth in fits and was swallowed up and carried away by the wind. |
| 2:12.4 | The night fell swiftly. The flag of England, fluttering on the |
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