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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: which ended in a rupture that was only healed by a peremptory command, which sent her on some household mission, during the performance of which the bickering was forgotten. CHAPTER IX. In the mean time, as much friendliness and intercourse was maintained between the families of Grippy and Plealands as could reasonably be expected from the characters and dispositions of the respective inmates. Shortly, however, after the conversation related in the preceding chapter had taken place, it happened that, as Malachi was returning on horseback from Glasgow, where he had lost a lawsuit, long prosecuted with the most relentless pertinacity against one of his tenants, he was, overtaken on the Mearns Moor by one of those sudden squalls and showers, which the genius of the place so often raises, doubt, purposely to conceal from the weary traveller the dreariness of the view around, and being wetted into the skin, the cold which he caught in consequence, and the irritation of his mind brought on a fever, that terminated fatally on the fifth day. His funeral was conducted according to the fashion of the age; but the day appointed was raw, windy, and sleety; not, however, so much so as to prevent the friends of the deceased from flocking in from every quarter. The assemblage that arrived far transcended all that can be imagined, in these economical days, of the attendance requisite on any such occasion. The gentry were shown into the dining-room, and into every room that could be fitted up with planks and deals for their reception. The barn received the tenantry, and a vast multitude?the whole clanjamphry from all the neighbouring parishes ?assembled on the green in front of the house. The laird in his lifetime maintained a rough and free hospitality; and, as his kindred and acqua...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217624862 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217624863 |
| Weight | 1.12 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.77 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 346 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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