The Witching HourEveryone knows the devil is real. |
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... father over again, stubborn and blind and selfish. My Mary gave you nothing of herself at all. If I hadn't delivered you into this world with my own hands, I'd have thought you were changed at birth.' Granny knew where to plunge her ...
... father over again, stubborn and blind and selfish. My Mary gave you nothing of herself at all. If I hadn't delivered you into this world with my own hands, I'd have thought you were changed at birth.' Granny knew where to plunge her ...
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... father - he was a big man, not given to talking much. He was a rover by nature, Tam said. He came to the Isle of Bute from the mainland to fetch the Laird of Keames's cattle and drive them east across the hills to sell in Glasgow. He ...
... father - he was a big man, not given to talking much. He was a rover by nature, Tam said. He came to the Isle of Bute from the mainland to fetch the Laird of Keames's cattle and drive them east across the hills to sell in Glasgow. He ...
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... father's legs and sucking him back into the depths. 'An accident, Maidie. Nothing more.' Tam heaved a sigh. 'Your father was taking the cattle to the mainland up by Colintraive, making them swim across the narrows there. He'd done it a ...
... father's legs and sucking him back into the depths. 'An accident, Maidie. Nothing more.' Tam heaved a sigh. 'Your father was taking the cattle to the mainland up by Colintraive, making them swim across the narrows there. He'd done it a ...
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... father had come from a place called Kilmacolm, over on the mainland. A brother of his, my Uncle Blair, lived there still, as far as I knew - on a farm called Ladymuir. I had sometimes dreamed of being spirited away from Granny to live ...
... father had come from a place called Kilmacolm, over on the mainland. A brother of his, my Uncle Blair, lived there still, as far as I knew - on a farm called Ladymuir. I had sometimes dreamed of being spirited away from Granny to live ...
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... father's. I hurried over the last bit of field, tugging Blackie's halter to make her walk faster, and as soon as she was safe in her stall I went into the cottage and pulled out the salt box, wanting to hold the buckle and feel its ...
... father's. I hurried over the last bit of field, tugging Blackie's halter to make her walk faster, and as soon as she was safe in her stall I went into the cottage and pulled out the salt box, wanting to hold the buckle and feel its ...
Contents
Section 14 | 188 |
Section 15 | 203 |
Section 16 | 224 |
Section 17 | 237 |
Section 18 | 260 |
Section 19 | 279 |
Section 20 | 297 |
Section 21 | 311 |
Section 9 | 91 |
Section 10 | 106 |
Section 11 | 129 |
Section 12 | 151 |
Section 13 | 170 |
Section 22 | 325 |
Section 23 | 345 |
Section 24 | 377 |
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