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Excerpt: "It is an odd thing, chance—the one element to baffle the logician and make the scheming of the wisest look as foolish in the long run as the sandy citadel a child builds upon the shore without any thought of the incoming tide. A strange thing, chance; and but for chance I might this day be the sheriff of a shire, my head stuffed with the tangled phrase and sentiment of interlocutors, or maybe no more than an advocate overlooked, sitting in John's Coffeehouse in Edinburgh—a moody soured man with a jug of claret, and cursing the inconsistencies of preferment to office. I might have been that, or less, if it had not been for so trifling a circumstance as the burning of an elderly woman's batch of scones. Had Mistress Grant a more attentive eye to her Culross griddle, what time the scones for her lodgers, breakfast were a-baking forty years ago, I would never have fled furth my native land in a mortal terror of the gallows: had her griddle, say, been higher on the swee-chain by a link or two, Paul Greig would never have foregathered with Dan Risk, the blackguard skipper of a notorious craft; nor pined in a foreign jail; nor connived, unwitting, at a prince's murder; nor marched the weary leagues of France and fought there on a beggar's wage. And this is not all that hung that long-gone day upon a woman's stair-head gossip to the neglect of her cuisine, for had this woman been more diligent at her baking I had probably never seen my Isobel with a lover's eye."
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length10 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
22CHAPTER XXIV
2CHAPTER II
23CHAPTER XXV
3CHAPTER III
24CHAPTER XXVI
4CHAPTER IV
25CHAPTER XXVII
5CHAPTER V
26CHAPTER XXVIII
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6CHAPTER VI
27CHAPTER XXIX
7CHAPTER VII
28CHAPTER XXX
8CHAPTER VIII
29CHAPTER XXXI.
9CHAPTER IX
30CHAPTER XXXII.
10CHAPTER X
31CHAPTER XXXIII
11CHAPTER XI
32CHAPTER XXXIV
12CHAPTER XII
33CHAPTER XXXV
13CHAPTER XIII
34CHAPTER XXXVI
14CHAPTER XIV
35CHAPTER XXXVII
15CHAPTER XV
36CHAPTER XXXVIII
16CHAPTER XVI
37CHAPTER XXXIX
17CHAPTER XVII
38CHAPTER XL
18CHAPTER XIX
39CHAPTER XLI
19CHAPTER XX
40CHAPTER XLII
20CHAPTER XXI
41CHAPTER XLIII
21CHAPTER XXII
42CHAPTER XLIV
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