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Hearts and the Highway; A Romance of the Road, First Set Forth by Lady Katherine Clanranald and Sir Hugh Richmond and Now Transcribed
Hearts and the Highway A Romance of the Road First Set Forth by Lady Katherine Clanranald and Sir Hugh Richmond and Now Transcribed Author:Cyrus Townsend Brady General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR r... more »eprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter III How I ate, drank, and gamed with Sir Hugh Richmond, under whom I would fain see Service FOR all my cogitations, I had settled upon nothing, and I was not only surprised but confused when there stepped out on the porch and made toward me -- the clatter of his boots upon the pavement caused me to turn my head -- a cavalier, whom I instantly divined to be the bearer of our evil tidings. Abstractly, I had a welcome in my heart for him such as Pharaoh of old entertained for similar messengers, and I purposed to meet him in much the same way, too; concretely, my first thought was one of pleased surprise at his appearance. He was tall, well-knit, well-bronzed, of darker skin and eyes than mine. His face was handsome in a stern and somewhat martial way. His bearing was that of a soldier and accorded well with the rich uniform he wore. I observed that hemade directly to me, and, therefore, I inferred that he had come to seek me. I was annoyed at myself that I had enjoyed no more time for preparation for the meeting. I must have been deeply absorbed in my thoughts, I decided, not to have heard the clatter he made riding up to the door of the inn on the other side. I had taken off my hat -- heavy, clumsy felt thing that it was! -- but, as the new-comer approached, I clapped it firmly on my head and rose, resisting with difficulty a wild inclination to wrap my riding-coat...« less