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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Subjects: Scotland English fiction Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II ONE LEG GREEN AND ONE LEG PINK For, after all, Laurence was a good deal older than I. And that makes a difference. Besides, he had known me from the time that Maud Lindsay sent me off to play with him, that she might have the more time (and the better) in which to torment his brother Sholto with her wilfulnesses. That was, of course, before they were married and had five children. Some time before. But all of that may be read in the history, that is titled after the chief of our house, The Black Douglas. But that is writ solemnly and of set purpose ; also straight on, as a book should be, while this which for my pleasure I am writing contains just the things that a woman has done and thought and heard and seen ever since she was a girl, and is of little value save to herself and to make the winter nights pass. And so Laurence M'Kim was an abbot, and, indeed, might have been a bishop had he wished it. But he was not given that way, having enough knowledge of himself to know that he was not worthy. That he was a real Lord Abbot I knew. For had not I myself made him so -- or, rather, my cousins William and James, who acted for me, and did not cross me in aught, save only in sending me to this abominable convent! But that is always the way with men. They give us a thousand things we do not want; they refuse us the one thing we do. I wonder, indeed, how they wo
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