The Moonstone

CHAPTER I In the first part of _Robinson Crusoe_, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: “Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.” Only yesterday, I opened my _Robinson Crusoe_ at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and f...