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The Portent; A Story of the Inner Vision of the Highlanders, Commonly Called the Second Sight
The Portent A Story of the Inner Vision of the Highlanders Commonly Called the Second Sight Author:George MacDonald General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder and Co. Subjects: Highlands (Scotland) English fiction Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you ... more »get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER m. MY OLD NURSE'S STORY I Was now almost nineteen. I had completed the usual curriculum of study at one of the Scotch universities; and, possessed of a fair knowledge of mathematics and physics, and what I considered rather more than a good foundation for classical and metaphysical acquirement, I resolved to apply for the first suitable situation that offered. But I was spared the trouble. A certain Lord Hilton, an English nobleman, residing in one of the midland counties, having heard that one of my father's sons was desirous ofsuch a situation, wrote to him, offering me the post of tutor to his two boys, of the ages of ten and twelve. He had been partly educated at a Scotch university; and this, it may be, had prejudiced him in favour of a Scotch tutor; while an ancient alliance of the families by marriage, was supposed by my nurse to be the reason of his offering me the situation. Of this connection, however, my father said nothing to me, and it went for nothing in my anticipations. I was to receive a hundred pounds a year, and to hold in the family the position of a gentleman, which might mean anything or nothing, according to the disposition of the heads of the family. Preparations for my departure were immediately commenced. I set out one evening for the cottage of my old nurse, to bid her good-bye for many months, probably years. I was to leave thenext day for Edinburgh, on my way to London, whence I had to repair by coach to my new abode -- almost to me like the land beyond the grave, so little d...« less