sundoon

Updated: May 4, 2025

He hung up the new English saddle, and sat down before the blazing hearth without speaking a word. "What detained you so long, James? You ought to have had half an acre of land, at least, ploughed to-day." "Verra true, mistress; it was nae fau't o' mine. I had mista'en the hour; the funeral did na come in afore sundoon, an' I cam' awa' as sune as it was owre." "Was it any relation of yours?"

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