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A lonely place; a lonely man, and the last of his name - poor as one gently born could be, ill-favoured both by nature and fortune, and with neither kith nor kin, wife nor friend. Thirty years past he had come into the world crying on the breast of a dead mother, and ten years later his father had broken his neck in a mad gallop homeward after a night of revel in the town of Dumfries, leaving the few barren acres and the dismal homestead as all the inheritance of his orphaned boy. The shadow of those early calamities had passed into the soul of Douglas, and made it dark and solitary. With the torso and trunk of a tall man, he was only five feet six inches high. But he was strong as Hercules, with the sinewy chest of a lion and the long muscular arms of a man-ape.
Come ben, come ben cried a shrill voice from within. What keeps ye there glowering in the cauld blast and the rain? Come ben, laird, and bar the door!
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