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They were nearing the outskirt fields of cultivation. It was past five when, dropping from the level of the tors, they came into the sunny vale of Monkland. "They say," said Crocker, reading from his guide-book "they say this place occupies a position of unique isolation." The two travellers, in tranquil solitude, took their seats under an old lime-tree on the village green.
And she whispered: "Only a little while, Eusty!" Old Lady Harbinger dying in the early February of the following year, the marriage of Barbara with her son was postponed till June. Much of the wild sweetness of Spring still clung to the high moor borders of Monkland on the early morning of the wedding day.
"Ha!" said Lady Casterley, and led on at her brisk pace towards the avenue. All the way down the drive she discoursed on woodcraft, glancing sharply at the trees. Forestry she said-like building, and all other pursuits which required, faith and patient industry, was a lost art in this second-hand age. Here, at Monkland, they were monstrously neglected.
He had about this time an interview with his father which confirmed the impression each had formed of the other. It took place in the library at Monkland Court, on a late November afternoon. The light of eight candles in thin silver candlesticks, four on either side of the carved stone hearth, illumined that room.
Thanks to Lady Valleys, a patroness of birds, no owl was ever shot on the Monkland Court estate, and those soft-flying spirits of the dusk hooted and hunted, to the great benefit of all except the creeping voles. By every farm, cottage, and field, they passed invisible, quartering the dark air.
Mother has three functions still to stay for, and I shall have to come back again for our last evening, the political one so I don't want to go all the way to Monkland; and anywhere else, except with you, would be rackety. Eustace looks so seedy. I'll try and bring him, if I may. Granny is terribly well. "Best love, dear, from your
Later he draws the plan of a canal that was to bring coals from Monkland to Glasgow, and superintends the execution of it.
It was not till the morning of polling day itself that Courtier left Monkland Court. He had already suffered for some time from bad conscience. For his knee was practically cured, and he knew well that it was Barbara, and Barbara alone, who kept him staying there.
At Monkland, which was all Court estate, there were naturally but few supporters of Miltoun's opponent, Mr.
By every consideration, therefore, the honoured name of Baird is entitled to a place in these sketches. Mr. James Baird of Cambusdoon is the only survivor of a family of eight sons, whose ancestors for several generations followed the primitive occupation of farming in the parish of Old Monkland.
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