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Kidnapped (Hardcover)
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Kidnapped (Hardcover)
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If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more
questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the
Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran
rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed trial is
silent as to all that touches David Balfour. These are nuts beyond
my ability to crack. But if you tried me on the point of Alan's
guilt or innocence, I think I could defend the reading of the text.
To this day you will find the tradition of Appin clear in Alan's
favor. If you inquire, you may even hear that the descendants of
the other man who fired the shot are in the country to this day.
But that other man's name, inquire as you please, you shall not
hear; for the Highlander values a secret for itself and for the
congenial exercise of keeping it I might go on for long to justify
one point and own another indefensible; it is more honest to
confess at once how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy.
evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed
draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his
day has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal
some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile
into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with
some engaging images to mingle with his dreams.
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