This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore Preface This work is called a ‘romance,’ because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber
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Produced by Don Lainson EREMA; OR, MY FATHER’S SIN by R. D. BLACKMORE 1877 CHAPTER I A LOST LANDMARK “The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on