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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIALOGUE III. SCENE I. ?Oban. A parlour in Craig Ard Hotel, with a view towards Mull. PERSONS.?MacDonald?Church?Bucherblume. After dinner, inter pocula. Ch.?Well, a fine round you have led us, indeed, Mac; up one long leg of the isosceles triangle and down the other, till we stand here at the opposite angle of the short base, as near as I can guess. Mac.?Exactly so; a tourist means a fellow who goes round about, not a man who marches right on by the shortest road. Knowing that your destiny was lona, with, perhaps, a touch of Mull and a glimpse of Skye, I certainly did mean to make you see as much of the mainland as possible before I let you loose on free wing in those remote regions. I am only sorry I did not whirl you a little further north, that you might have seen the brave Duke's magnificent residence on the fringe of the big German waves at Dunrobin, and, what is much more worth seeing, his Titanic operations with the steam-plough on the slope of Loch Shin. Pity also that neither the weather nor our leisure allowed us to stay at Torres for the sake of seeing the valley of the Findhorn, one of the finest stretches of dark mountain water and of picturesque wood in the Highlands; the land of the Cummings, a race famous in Scottish history, and still sending forth from their native seat men of daring nerve and ladies of adventurous Intellect and brilliant grace, of whom any country might be proud. I should likewise have wished to have led your steps quietly out of the track of railroads and the rut of mail-gigs into Strathnaver, that you might see something of the abomination of desolation as it has been practised in those parts. Ch.?I have heard something of that; but one need not go out of his way in the Highlands to seek desolation; and from my inmost heart I...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217164023 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217164021 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $21.51 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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