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A Knight of the Nets (Hardcover)
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A Knight of the Nets (Hardcover)
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It would be easy to walk many a time through "Fife and all the
lands about it" and never once find the little fishing village of
Pittendurie. Indeed, it would be a singular thing if it was found,
unless some special business or direction led to it. For clearly it
was never intended that human beings should build homes where these
cottages cling together, between sea and sky, - a few here, and a
few there, hidden away in every bend of the rocks where a little
ground could be levelled, so that the tides in stormy weather break
with threat and fury on the very doorstones of the lowest cottages.
Yet as the lofty semicircle of hills bend inward, the sea follows;
and there is a fair harbour, where the fishing boats ride together
while their sails dry in the afternoon sun. Then the hamlet is very
still; for the men are sleeping off the weariness of their night
work, while the children play quietly among the tangle, and the
women mend the nets or bait the lines for the next fishing. A
lonely little spot, shut in by sea and land, and yet life is there
in all its passionate variety - love and hate, jealousy and
avarice, youth, with its ideal sorrows and infinite expectations,
age, with its memories and regrets, and "sure and certain hope."
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