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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: 71 MACDONAID'S RETURN. A Lovely summer evening had succeeded a long day of persistent rain, as so often happens in the West Highlands, and when Wright proposed after dinner that we should take a stroll outside, I willingly consented. We lit our cigars in the porch, and walked down the drive under the trees, then with one accord pushed open the gate and stepped out on to the road which runs by the side of the loch. The red sunset glow had not yet faded out of the west, and a faint pink tinged the distant hills, but the moon had risen over the great shoulder of Ben More, and was sending long silvery gleams over the waters at our feet. Ben More's top stood out clear and distinct against the cloudless sky, but the woods round its base, and the slopes and corries of the lesser hills were lost in deep purple shadow. The air was fresh and mild, there was not a breath of wind; not a sound was to be heard but the rush of the swollen burns, and the swirl of the water as the incoming tide met the outflowing river. We stood in silence for quite five minutes; the scene was too beautiful to be disturbed by adjectives of admiration; then Wright said abruptly, ' Let's go to the boathouse; I want to look at the Canadian canoe, ' and we moVed on. An old man sitting on a stone disentangling a fishing-line rose up as we approached, and respectfully touched his cap. A boat lay ready at the water's edge, a wretched old tub, patched and mended till very little of the original wood was left. I had noticed it in the boathouse when I was rowed across from the railway station on the other side of the loch a week before, and wondered why Wright did not break it up for firewood. ' Going out fishing in that old boat of yours, Malcolm ?' said Wright in his strong hearty voice. ' Why won't you try one..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217580250 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217580254 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 484 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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