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A Noble Life

CHAPTER 10
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And how the boys will go skating on Dunsappi Loch, and golfing over Bruntsfield Links.

Oh, we'll make them all so happy!" added he, with pleasure shining in those contented eyes, which drew half their light from the joy that they saw, and caused to shine in the eyes around him.
It was after many days of fatiguing travel that Lord Cairnforth reached the ferry opposite Cairnforth.
There the Castle stood, just as he had left it, its white front gleaming against the black woods, then yellow and brown with autumn, but now only black, or with a faint amber shadow running through them, preparatory to the green of spring.

Between lay the beautiful loch, looking ten times more beautiful than ever to eyes which had not seen it for many long months.

How it danced and dimpled, as it had done before the squall in which the earl's father was drowned, and as it would do many a time again, after the fashion of these lovely, deceitful lochs, and of many other things in this world.
"Oh, Malcolm, it's good to be at home!" said the earl, as he gazed fondly at his white castle walls, at the ivy-covered kirk, and the gable end of the Manse.

He had been happy in Edinburg, but it was far sweeter to come to the dear old friends that loved him.


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