The Waif Woman
By Robert Louis Stevenson
28 Oct, 2019
The Waif Woman is a short story suppressed by Stevenson and published twenty years after his death. Many editors prefer not to include this story in their selections because The Waif Woman is unfinished.............In the spring of that year, a ship
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The Waif Woman is a short story suppressed by Stevenson and published twenty years after his death. Many editors prefer not to include this story in their selections because The Waif Woman is unfinished.............In the spring of that year, a ship sailed from the South Isles to traffic and fell becalmed inside Snowfellness. The winds had speeded her; she was the first comer of the year, and the fishers drew alongside to hear the news of the south, and eager folk put out in boats to see the merchandise and make prices. From the doors of the hall on Frodis Water, the house folk saw the ship becalmed and the boats about her, coming and going; and the merchants from the ship could see the smoke go up and the men and women trooping to their meals in the hall. Less