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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 II. DY the banks of the Eden, where it flows eastwards from Cupar town through green meadows and under wide-boled willows, stood the house of Jean Maitland and the new home of Douglas Oliphant. Not a year before her appearance below his windows had gone like an arrow-shot to Douglas's heart, Jean had been left this house of Eden Braes by the death of the uncle who had brought her up. She was a bright, vivacious girl. Her wealth of spirits sustained her in the somewhat lonely and sparing life she led with her uncle. His death gave her more freedom and a fortune as well as the little estate. The lands on it were farmed by a grieve. She had few friends. Her household cares were light. So she had her heart's content of walking and riding, and her ponies carried her everywhere in the country-side?and one afternoon, as we have seen, to her fate at the feet of the man with the handsome but somewhat sinister face. That she should have found it where she did surprised many who, poor students of woman's nature, had not learned how useless it is to study it. But it was no surprise to Willy. As far back as he could well remember, the handsome looks of his brother had been remarked. Thus the saying of many an old skipper in those years when Douglas was given up as lost, '' He was a braw lad, your brother was, '' had been backed up too authori- tively by the traditions of the household to trouble him, even had he been given to jealousy. Now that Douglas was back, he had evidence before his eyes, although, it is true, he had in plenty, also, evidence of his brother's unhandsome doings. But love laughs at evidence. Each revelation of the dark side of Douglas's nature pained him, but he remainedloyal to his old ideal. And while others wondered, he thought it only natural that Jean should..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217638906
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217638902
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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