Love Joins the Clans by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788671255
Published: 2018-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Riding out of the stable yard with Jamie McBlane, Clova was conscious of feeling wildly excited.

She was thrilled by the beauty of the morning sunshine percolating through the trees, the mist over the moors and the glimmer of silver when she was within sight of the river.

It was all so lovely, so very unlike France, and she found herself exulting,

‘This is mine, mine!’

She rode South from The Castle, deliberately keeping below the road that began to rise almost immediately over the moors.

They moved slowly along the river where it was easy going for the horses and a number of sheep were grazing on the green grass.

Clova found it thrilling to be once again on horseback, although she was certain that after years of not riding, she would later be very stiff.

When her mother had first run away from Scotland with Lionel Arkwright, she had ridden every day with them both in the Bois de Boulogne.

Even after he had left them, there were several of Lottie’s admirers who owned outstanding stables and, because Clova was a very pretty child, they had enjoyed taking her riding with them.

It was only later, when Lottie’s suitors were apt to belong to other social circles and some of them, like Jan Maskill, came from far-off countries, that there were no horses for Clova to ride.

Still, whenever Lottie had money to spend, she was only too glad to allow Clova to hire horses from a livery stable wherever they might be at that moment and to ride accompanied by a groom.

But the last three years had been barren of horseflesh and Clova now felt an irrepressible joy and excitement because she was riding again and her horse was well-bred and spirited.

She had seen in the stables and in the Park round The Castle sturdy little ponies that were used on the moors and she looked forward to riding them.

At the moment, however, she was concerned more than anything else to discover where Castle Cowan was situated.

It seemed to her that they very quickly reached the place near the river where she had helped Tarquil McCowan land his salmon.

It was then that she had an idea, but was half-afraid to express it.

She had found out that her cousin Jamie had an estate of his own, which she gathered from what he said was prosperous.

As they talked, she found that, although he was not very eloquent, he was very interested in current affairs and she felt sure that he was more enlightened than some of her other relatives.

They had ridden quite a way before he said,

“I think now, Cousin Clova, we have reached the boundary of the McBlane estate in this direction. It extends very much further North and also West, but here it is bordered by the land belonging to the McCowans.”

Clova drew in her breath and then she said,

“You heard what I said yesterday, Cousin Jamie, about repudiating ancient feuds.”

“I think you were quite right,” he said.

She smiled at him and then she asked,

“In that

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