As if Torbot McBlane could again sense what she was feeling, he began to talk to her about the history of the McBlanes.
Of the battles they had fought in the past, the miseries they had suffered during the Clearances, when they had been turned out of their homes and from the land where they had been born and raised.
Many of them had been sent cruelly across the seas to Canada, where a great number had died at the hands of the Indians or from starvation because they could not find work and the weather was harsh.
As he spoke, it all seemed to come back to Clova as if she had heard it all before or else it had been dormant in her mind.
Now she could remember many things that she had forgotten and which she had never thought about once they had receded into the mists of the past.
Most of
