Enlightened
“It was too beautiful a day to sit in the carriage for this last and best part of the journey. By getting out here, he could walk a couple of miles over the ridge before dropping down to the glen through a path in the woods that backed onto Laverock House.
David watched the carriage rumble on without him. It would arrive with no passenger, only an economically packed trunk of clothes, three boxes of books and papers he’d picked up from Murdo’s Edinburgh townhouse during his brief visit, and ...a clootie dumpling wrapped up in muslin cloth. This last, his favourite boyhood treat, came from his mother’s kitchen in Midlauder. She’d spent the last three days fussing over him and sent him home not only with the pudding but—despite his protests that his leg was quite better—with a pot of her homemade liniment which, she told him, he was to make sure to keep using every day.
It was a bit of a climb to the top of the next hill, but after that it would be level walking for a good while, and, anyway, it felt good to David to stretch his legs after all the hours he’d spent in the carriage.MoreLess
David watched the carriage rumble on without him. It would arrive with no passenger, only an economically packed trunk of clothes, three boxes of books and papers he’d picked up from Murdo’s Edinburgh townhouse during his brief visit, and ...a clootie dumpling wrapped up in muslin cloth. This last, his favourite boyhood treat, came from his mother’s kitchen in Midlauder. She’d spent the last three days fussing over him and sent him home not only with the pudding but—despite his protests that his leg was quite better—with a pot of her homemade liniment which, she told him, he was to make sure to keep using every day.
It was a bit of a climb to the top of the next hill, but after that it would be level walking for a good while, and, anyway, it felt good to David to stretch his legs after all the hours he’d spent in the carriage.MoreLess
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