# The Thirty Nine Steps ## Metadata * Author: [John Buchan](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B00Z47BLL6 * ISBN: 1544011520 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Z47BLL6 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00Z47BLL6) ## Highlights 'Richard — location: [63](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00Z47BLL6&location=63) ^ref-53767 --- About six in the evening I came out of the moorland to a white ribbon of road which wound up the narrow vale of a lowland stream. As I followed it, fields gave place to bent, the glen became a plateau, and presently I had reached a kind of pass where a solitary house smoked in the twilight. The road swung over a bridge, and leaning on the parapet was a young man. He was smoking a long clay pipe and studying the water with spectacled eyes. In his left hand was a small book with a finger marking the place. Slowly he repeated— As when a Gryphon through the wilderness With winged step, o'er hill and moory dale Pursues the Arimaspian. He jumped round as my step rung on the keystone, and I saw a pleasant sunburnt boyish face. 'Good evening to you,' he said gravely. 'It's a fine night for the road.' The smell of peat smoke and of some savoury roast floated to me from the house. — location: [418](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00Z47BLL6&location=418) ^ref-49436 As clear and beautiful a description as any. ---