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ROSE COTTAGE
by
MARY STEWART


ROSE

COTTAGE

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Copyright 1997 by Mary Stewart

First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Hodder & Stoughton

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To the gentle shades of Henry, George, Patsy, Nip, Rosy, Maudie and
Muffin, and all the other friends whom I met again in my stroll down
Memory Lane.

 It is 1947, a calm, still day of June. On the wide spreading
moorland the ling is dark and as yet un flowering but the bell heather
is out, and bees are busy. Sunday afternoon peace. A grouse calls
somewhere, safe still for a few weeks from men and guns.

The weather has been fine, and the hillside is dry, but a little way
down the slope the cotton-grass shows fluffy-white among the reeds and
dwarf thickets of bog myrtle. A tiny burn drips and trickles down to