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Excerpt from From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond: Being Letters Written by Mrs. M. I. Stevenson During 1887-88, to Her Sister, Jane Whyte Balfour, With a Short Introduction by George W. Balfour, M. D., LL. D., F. R. S. E Scotch manses are all pleasantly Situated, though each may have its Own peculiarities; and in this respect Colinton Manse does not differ from others. If we glance at a photo graph Of the manse as it used to be when Mrs. Stevenson was young, and as Robert Louis Stevenson knew it before the subsequent alterations, we see it as a square house stand ing in the middle of a large garden surrounded by a beech hedge lined with holly, always sweet and green alike in summer and winter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.