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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: CHAPTER III. THE DEAD WOMAN. At five o'clock the next morning, when Solomon Mucklebackit, candle in hand, descended the stairs, he found the minister sitting by the bedside fast asleep, with his grey head resting on the side of the pillow, and his right arm outstretched over the counterpane above the still slumbering child. At the sound of Solomon's entrance, however, Mr. Lorraine awoke at once, rubbed his eyes, and looked in adazed way around him; then his eyes fell upon the infant, and his face grew bright as sunshine. ' Bless me, meenister Hae ye been watching here a' nicht ?' ' I fell to sleep, ' was the reply, ' and I was dreaming, Solomon, such bonnie dreams I thought that I was up yonder among the angels, and that one of them came to me with a face I well remember?ah, so bright ?and put a little bairn?- this bairn?into my arms; and then, as I held the pretty one, a thousand voices sang an old Scotch song, the Land o' the Leal. Dear me ?and it is nearly daybreak, I suppose ?' Solomon did not reply in words, but, pulling up the blind, showed the outer world still dark, but trembling to the firstdim rays of wintry dawn, while snow was thickly falling, and the garden was covered with a sheet of virgin white. The minister rose shivering, for the air was bitter cold; his limbs, too, were stiff and chilly. ' What's to be done now ?' asked Solomon gloomily. ' I maun awa' an' feenish the grave, but Mysie will be here at six.' ' I will watch until Mysie comes, ' answered Mr. Lorraine; then, bending over the bed, he continued: ' See, Solomon, my man, how soundly she sleeps, and how pretty she looks ' Solomon grunted, and moved towards the door. ' Will I put on the parritch mysel' ?' he demanded. ' Ye maun be wanting something after sic a night.' ' N...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217336123 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217336124 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 126 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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