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The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales

Autor Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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"Mr. Gillespie omitted some of the formalities," said he. "My name is Mackenzie-David Mackenzie; and I live at Ardlaugh Castle, scarcely half a mile up the glen behind us. I warn you that its hospitality is rude, but to what it affords you are heartily welcome." He spoke with a high, precise courtliness which contrasted oddly with his boyish face (I guessed his age at nineteen or twenty), and still more oddly with his clothes, which were threadbare and patched in many places, yet with a deftness which told of a woman's care. We introduced ourselves by name, and thanked him, with some expressions of regret at inconveniencing (as I put it, at hazard) the family at the Castle. "Oh " he interrupted, "I am sole master there. I have no parents living, no family, and," he added, with a slight sullenness which I afterwards recognised as habitual, "I may almost say, no friends: though to be sure, you are lucky enough to have one fellow-guest to-night-the minister of the parish, a Mr. Saul, and a very worthy man.
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ISBN-13: 9781547260997
ISBN-10: 1547260998
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg