The Last of the Kintyres
“Malcolm had predicted, and the following morning, left to her own devices and curiously restive, Elizabeth set out for a long walk to pass the time till his return. She had helped Mrs. Malcolm about the house, and now she was free to make the acquaintance of Ardlamond in detail.When she reached the boundary wall of the estate she was, immediately confronted by the hill, and all the morning sunshine seemed to be lingering up there.It would be an adventure, she decided, to climb as high as she co...uld—as high as the white cottage, perhaps, which stood out plainly once she had reached the moor road.It looked so small from the road, no more than a two-roomed croft or a summer shieling nestling in a green fold between the rocky spurs, remote and high and alone, like an eagle’s eyrie set up there where only the bravest foot would tread.Something about its stern isolation on the brow of the hill vibrated a chord in her memory, too vague to be connected with any specific thing or person, yet it drew her on in a peculiar way.The road that went up the hill was no more than a cart track leading, at length, into a miniature glen where she lost sight of the lonely croft for a while.MoreLess
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