From Generation to Generation, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Of course his way of telling it left it very imperfect. It was like a chain broken over and over again, till you could only gather up a few of the links that had fallen apart, and were scattered here and there. For Douglas did not speak as to a stranger. I was no stranger to him; he filled up outlines with which I was already in possession. The scenes of his home-life were familiar to me; he had not to describe much, and that was well. Douglas was not good at description, or at what is called character-drawing. Instead of explain ing to you what he thought of people, he just told simply what they said and did, and by that means (for he was very just), I think one grew to understand with great clearness what they were like.

So when, as I have, said Douglas was out, looking after his sheep-farm or his fishing.

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