- Fiction, Scots, Clergy, Zulu (African people)
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it, a terror which was surely more than the due of a few truant lads breaking the Sabbath with their play.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- John Buchan
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 249
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Boston, IndyPublish.com, eBooksLib
- Editions
- 339
- Language
- Chinese, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9798681659624
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“I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man.”
A Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan>Wikipedia</a>).
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