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25:2: RAMBLES NORTHWiED. '
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•*— The Road From Melvich To Tongue Skir...
' _.-. Triumphant was the hostess , repentant and ashamed the lassie , and from that day forth the stranger was as one of the family ,
hostess and lassie vieing with each other in unobtrusive attention . endearing Through the him _whole to all wint who er did came he stay in his , his way gen ; tleness and many and simp was licity the
friend a kind word and a kind act secured him among the peasantry of spoke the little neighbourhood and gave no for account miles of and himself miles , around it was , easy and to thoug contained see h that he
he other was books both beside a gentl the eman Bible and and a schol over ar these . The lie was _knapsack wont to poie for , hours and hours togethersitting up late into the night reading-.
, "" As time went on , the clothes , shabby at his arrival , wore into rags and tatters , the Hoots into great holes . Humoring the peculiarities
of her guestj Mrs . Ross at last ventured upon replacing the old boots with a pair of new ones she had caused to be made , and
Not placin a g word them or outside look , his however door , , evinced waited her the guest result ' s knowled with curiosity ge that .
the boots had been exchanged , and when , in the next week ' s bill , their price was insertedit "was paid without a question . Thus
enb couraged article , the Mrs bills . Ross being in , invariabl like manner y paid renewed without question his wardrobe or comment , article .
Two y or three , months thus passed away , when one morning- this taciturn guest announced his intention of going to to get
some money at the bankers , upon which mission he was absent several days , passing , with this exception , the whole of the winter
and spring at Durness . In the early summer he took his departure ; '' missed him
sorely , " said Mrs . Ross , " for a quieter , kinder gentleman never lived . " He went as unknown as he had come , and his many
friends never looked to see him among them again ; no sooner , howeverdid the following winter make its appearance than with it
came the , silent _gxiest as before , dropping in as though just returned from an ordinary daily ramble . It proved a very long and severe
lonel winter y , rambles with many of her falls guest of caused snow and Mrs continued . Ross much frost uneasiness , and the ; long "but ,
gentle as he was , it was easy to see that any opposition to his mode of proceedinghowever kindly meantwas unpalatable in the
ex-, , treme . March came with its driving winds and snow , when one morning he announced his intention , as before , of visiting
to get some money . Alarmed at such a journey in such weather , MrsRoss did her best to prevent it ; begged , entreated , all but
. commanded , reminding him of the long and lonely road , and particularlof a certain dreary moorperilous in the extreme at such a
season y of the year , especially if , fresh snow should fall . But lier remonstrances were all in vainandanxious and grieved , she
, , sent him forth on his dangerous journey , with every precaution she could devise . Pie had not long been gone ere the snow
-began to fall , and she looked _anxioiisly for his return ; . but days
25:2: Rambles Northwied. '
25 : 2 : RAMBLES _NORTHWiED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/36/
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