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Tonight, we'll read the opening to Lorna Dune, A Romance of Exmoor, a novel published in 1869 and written by

English author Richard Dudridge Blackmore.

Lorna Dune is based on a group of historical characters set in the late 17th century.

Jan Red is the son of a farmer who is murdered by a member of the Dune Clan.

The Dunes were once noble, but now outlaws. Chan falls in love with a girl named Lorna who turns

out to be from this very clan he loaves.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now, take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 1 Elements of Education

If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, Jan Red, of the

parish of Orr in the County of Somerset, farmer and churchwarden have seen and had

a share in some doings of this neighborhood, which I will try to set down in order, God sparing my life and memory.

And they who light upon this book should bear in mind not only that I write for the clearing of our parish from ill

fame and calumny but also a thing which I will, I think, appear too often in it, to wit, that I am nothing

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