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Excerpt from Fortune's Wheel, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
I do not doubt it, Mr Ross - I do not doubt it, replied the other, motioning away with an affable wave of the arm the tender of the Highlander's snuff-mull. He was excited, and could not help showing it, though he prided himself on the serenity of his deportment. We do what we can; but man's powers are limited, and we must have resident proprietors if we are to develop the local traffic. Donald Ross rumpled up his shaggy eye brows. He was a fine specimen of the elderly hillman - as tall as the station-master, and far more muscular. Hard-looking and weather beaten, he seemed to have worked away, in a long life among the hills, all superabundant flesh from his bone and sinew. Though his Saxon was serviceable, like the cobs, he was not strong in it; he failed to catch the mean ing of the station-master, and he struck back into his own line of thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
