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CHAPTER II.

The Tranter's.

It was a small low cottage with a hatched pyramidal roof, and having dormer windows breaking up into the eaves, a single chimney standing in the very midst. The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire- and candle-light within radiated forth upon the bushes of variegated box and thick laurestinus growing in a throng outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging above in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers, combined with careless climbing

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