"Well, good-bye,"

said Alan, and held out his left hand.

"Good-bye," said I, and gave the hand a little grasp, and went off down hill.

Neither one of us looked the other in the face, nor so long as he was in my view did I take one back glance at the friend I was leaving. But as I went on my way to the city, I felt so lost and lonesome, that I could have found it in my heart to sit down by the dyke, and cry and weep like a baby.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
Statue by Alexander Stoddart, unveiled by Sir Sean Connery, 2004. This can be seen where the characters Alan Breck (real) and David Balfour (fictional) parted company.