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OUR ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS. 349*
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punch his head , but I never should have dreamt of killing"him . Well No , I no sincerel , Bob , it trust won' I t am do ; you but ' re at in least the Charlie wrong * box will . " ; you
promis sharp " Willing eye e me , on l not y him , the to when trust latter y he yours especial is beside elf l alone y were you with ?" it him for , no , and other to , keep reason a
than to convince you how unfounded your suspicions are . " " That ' s all riht ; and now get up like a good fellowand
lock the door after g me when I go out . " , He did soand I felt more comfortable as I heard the key
grate my own behind : his , me door . was I had ajar to pass as Charlie Ashton 's ' s had room been before , but reaching all was *
dark and still within . Deuchray had been fixed upon as our walk from for next _unkeld day .
beaten It That is eup the track honi highest ousl of tourists y- in named the nei h No _~ ill ghbourhood is human about six being , and miles quite except out D perhaps of the .
. , , , intervals some stray is gamekeeper ever found in or the woo pathless d-feller , wood and th which at onl covers y at rare the
hill almost , to its summit ; but having heard that the view from it According is magnificent ltaking , we our determined lunch with to us go and we set jud out ge for immediatel ourselves y .
y , , miles after breakfast we followed , not intending a h road to return which till wound evening * throug . For h some the
forest ; but that terminating roug in a lonely saw-mill , we were fain to strike into the pathless wood in a direct line for the hill .
with Easy one as it ' s may goal be in to full keep view in , a it where direct becomes line a in very the is difficult to open be country matter but ,
g in loomy This the midst we vistas of of soon a trees thick found around wood out , , and and a small after nothing patch an hour of _' sk s floundering y overhead seen .
very , in almost bogs perpendicular , crashing throug acclivities h underwood onlto , and find climbing deeper valleys rough— on
the other sideit became apparent y to all that we had lost ourselves ,
. that We to stop retrace t , and our held steps a council being impossibl of war , at e which our best it was plan agreed would
be to , plod on , and trust to get out of the , wood some time . On throug we and according climbing h the trees ly , til went l a , stalking streak ht our of , stumbling light Making and , floundering a in glimmer the direction , crashing of water we ,
soon emerged on caug the margin eye of . a little lonely lake , which— , so hemmed in on all sides was it by high wooded face banks of the —resem water
was bled unbroken a well with by mossy a ripp sides le , . and The reflected black every sur rock and tree
more with the lonel fidelity y place . of The a mirror only . thing I thoug which ht spoke I neve of r had civilization seen a :
Our Adventure In The Highlands. 349*
OUR ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS . 349 *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/61/
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