Margaret Wilson Oliphant
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 330
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Excerpt from It Was a Lover and His Lass There stands in one of the northern counties of Scotland, in the midst of a wild and wooded landscape, with the background Of a fine range of hills, and in the vicinity of a noble trout-stream, a great palace, uninhabited and unfinished. There it stands, white and splendid, raising its turreted roofs, such a house as a prince might live in, which would accommodate dozens Of guests, and for which scores of servants would be needful. But all naked, vacant, and silent, the glassless windows like empty sockets without eyes, the rooms all unfinished, grass growing on the broad steps that lead up to the great barricaded door, and weeds flourishing upon the approach. At night, or when the evening glooms are falling, nothing can be more startling than to stray into the presence of this huge thing, which is not a habitation, and which seems, all complete yet so incomplete, to have strayed into regions quite uncongenial and out of sympathy with it, where it stands as much out of its element as a stranded boat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.