Other Fiction Robertson, Margaret M: The Orphans of Glen Elder. v1. 30 May 2013*

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Margaret Murray Robertson (22 April 1823 – 14 February 1897) was a Scottish-born teacher and writer.

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“Up to the fifth landing, and then straight on. You canna miss the door.”
For a moment the person thus addressed stood gazing up into the darkness of the narrow staircase, and then turned wearily to the steep ascent. No wonder she was weary; for at the dawn of that long August day, now closing so dimly over the smoky town, her feet had pressed the purple heather on the hills that skirt the little village of Kirklands. A neighbouring farmer had driven her part of the way, but she had walked since then seven-and-twenty miles of the distance that lay between her and her home.

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