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Excerpt: "The last of the West Bow balls before Lady Charlotte ran away with her dancing-master was on a dirty evening in November. Edinburgh was all day wrapped in haar, and now came rain that made the gutters run like mountain burns and overflow into the closes, to fall in shallow cataracts to the plain below. There was a lively trade in the taverns. "Lord! there's a sneezer for ye!" said the customers ordering in their ale, not really minding the weather much, for it was usual and gave a good excuse for more assiduous scourging of the nine-gallon tree; p. 4but their wives, spanging awkwardly on pattens through the mud on their way to the fishwife at the Luckenbooths for the supper haddocks, had such a breeze in their petticoats and plaids they were in a terror that they should be blown away upon the blasts that came up the gulleys between the towering "lands," and daring slates and chimney-pots, and the hazards of emptied vessels from the flats above, kept close to the wall as luggers scrape the shore of Fife when the gale's nor'-west."
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length4 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE WEST BOW BALL.
7ISLE OF ILLUSION.
2CHAPTER II. THE FIRE.
8THE TUDOR CUP.
3YOUNG PENNYMORE.
9“COPENHAGEN”: A CHARACTER.
4A RETURN TO NATURE.
10THE SILVER DRUM.
5THE BROOCH.
11THE SCOTTISH POMPADOUR.
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6THE FIRST-FOOT.
12THE TALE OF THE BOON COMPANION.