Guy Mannering
A young traveller sheltering at Ellangowan casts a horoscope for the laird's newborn son as a joke and does not like what it says. Years later the boy is gone, the estate is passing into the hands of the family's own lawyer, and the gypsy Meg Merrilies is still watching the coast. Scott's first turn to the Galloway smuggling country, and the one that fixed the lost-heir plot for the century.
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