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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 V. DULCIE. All trace of Lennard Melfort had been obliterated at Craig- engowan, we have said. He was never mentioned there, and though his family tried to think of him as dead, they did not quite succeed; but the disappearance of his name from the Army List first excited a little speculation, but no inquiry, until a terrible event occurred. The eldest son, the Hon. Cosmo, married the daughter of Lady Drumshoddy, thus securing her thousands, and did his best to console Lord and Lady Fettercairn for ' the disgrace' brought upon them by Lennard, and they regarded him quite is a model son. He shone as Chairman at all kinds of county meetings; became M.P. for a cluster of northern burghs, and was a typical Scottish member, mightily interested when such grand Imperial matters as the gravelling of Park Lane, the ducks on the Serpentine, and the improvements at Hyde Park Corner were before the House, but was oblivious of all Scottish interests, or that such a place as Scotland existed. When she wanted? like other parts of the empire?but never got them?grants for necessary purposes, the Hon. Cosmo was mute as a fish, or if he spoke, it was to record his vote against them. Lennard saw in a chance newspaper, and with natural grief and dismay, that Cosmo had come to an untimely end when deerstalking near Glentilt. He had wounded a large stag, the captain of its herd, and approached rashly or incautiously when the infuriated animal was at bay. It broke its bay, attacked him in turn, and ere the great shaggy hounds could tear it down, Cosmo was trampled under foot and gored to death by its horns. As Lennard read, his sad mind went to the scene where that death must have happened, under mighty Ben-y-gloe, wherethe kestrel builds his nest and the great mountain eagle has h...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217707466 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217707467 |
| Weight | 0.97 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 In |
| List Price | $21.79 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 298 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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