Tales of a pilgrim, by the author of 'A summer ramble in the North Highlands'. |
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Tales of a Pilgrim, by the Author of 'a Summer Ramble in the North Highlands' Alexander Sutherland Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 350 - ... readily complied with this requisition ; and, apparently satisfied with its contents, he returned it, and, pointing in the direction of the kitchen, turned away. I fancied that he muttered a curse on my country as we parted ; but I let it pass unnoticed. I had been but a very short time an inmate of this mansion, ere I was struck by the unwonted silence and gloom that pervaded it. In the kitchen, — in France almost invariably the seat of mirth, — all was dulness and monotony. A couple of...
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