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Heather and Snow By: George MacDonald (1824-1905) |
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BY GEORGE MACDONALD CONTENTS I. A RUNAWAY RACE
II. MOTHER AND SON
III. AT THE FOOT OF THE HORN
IV. DOG STEENIE
V. COLONEL AND SERGEANT
VI. MAN STEENIE
VII. CORBYKNOWE
VIII. DAVID AND HIS DAUGHTER
IX. AT CASTLE WEELSET
X. DAVID AND FRANCIS
XI. KIRSTY AND PHEMY
XII. THE EARTH HOUSE
XIII. A VISIT FROM FRANCIS GORDON
XIV. STEENIE'S HOUSE
XV. PHEMY CRAIG
XVI. SHAM LOVE
XVII. A NOVEL ABDUCTION
XVIII. PHEMY'S CHAMPION
XIX. FRANCIS GORDON'S CHAMPION
XX. MUTUAL MINISTRATION
XXI. PHEMY YIELDS PLACE
XXII. THE HORN
XXIII. THE STORM AGAIN
XXIV. HOW KIRSTY FARED
XXV. KIRSTY'S DREAM
XXVI. HOW DAVID FARED
XXVII. HOW MARION FARED
XXVIII. HUSBAND AND WIFE
XXIX. DAVID, MARION, KIRSTY, SNOOTIE, AND WHAT WAS LEFT OF STEENIE
XXX. FROM SNOW TO FIRE
XXXI. KIRSTY SHOWS RESENTMENT
XXXII. IN THE WORKSHOP
XXXIII. A RACE WITH DEATH
XXXIV. BACK FROM THE GRAVE
XXXV. FRANCIS COMES TO HIMSELF
XXXVI. KIRSTY BESTIRS HERSELF
XXXVII. A GREAT GULF
XXXVIII. THE NEIGHBOURS
XXXIX. KIRSTY GIVES ADVICE
XL. MRS. GORDON
XLI. TWO HORSEWOMEN
XLII. THE LAIRD AND HIS MOTHER
XLIII. THE CORONATION
XLIV. KIRSTY'S TOCHER
XLV. KIRSTY'S SONG
CHAPTER I
A RUNAWAY RACE Upon neighbouring stones, earth fast, like two islands of an
archipelago, in an ocean of heather, sat a boy and a girl, the girl
knitting, or, as she would have called it, weaving a stocking, and
the boy, his eyes fixed on her face, talking with an animation that
amounted almost to excitement. He had great fluency, and could have
talked just as fast in good English as in the dialect in which he was
now pouring out his ambitions the broad Saxon of Aberdeen. He was giving the girl to understand that he meant to be a soldier like
his father, and quite as good a one as he. But so little did he know of
himself or the world, that, with small genuine impulse to action, and
moved chiefly by the anticipated results of it, he saw success already
his, and a grateful country at his feet. His inspiration was so purely
ambition, that, even if, his mood unchanged, he were to achieve much
for his country, she could hardly owe him gratitude. 'I'll no hae the warl' lichtly ( make light of ) me!' he said. 'Mebbe the warl' winna tribble itsel aboot ye sae muckle as e'en to
lichtly ye!' returned his companion quietly. ' Ye do naething ither!' retorted the boy, rising, and looking down on
her in displeasure. 'What for are ye aye girdin at me? A body canna lat
his thouchts gang, but ye're doon upo them, like doos upo corn!' 'I wadna be girdin at ye, Francie, but that I care ower muckle aboot ye
to lat ye think I haud the same opingon o' ye 'at ye hae o' yersel,'
answered the girl, who went on with her knitting as she spoke. 'Ye'll never believe a body!' he rejoined, and turned half away. 'I
canna think what gars me keep comin to see ye! Ye haena a guid word to
gie a body!' 'It's nane ye s' get frae me, the gait ye're gaein, Francie! Ye think a
heap ower muckle o' yersel. What ye expec, may some day a' come true,
but ye hae gien nobody a richt to expec it alang wi' ye, and I canna
think, gien ye war fair to yersel, ye wad coont yersel ane it was to be
expeckit o'!' 'I tauld ye sae, Kirsty! Ye never lay ony weicht upo what a body says!' That depen's upo the body. Did ye never hear maister Craig p'int oot
the differ atween believin a body and believin in a body, Francie?' 'No and I dinna care.' 'I wudna like ye to gang awa thinking I misdoobtit yer word, Francie! I
believe onything ye tell me, as far as I think ye ken, but maybe no
sae far as ye think ye ken. I believe ye, but I confess I dinna
believe in ye yet. What hae ye ever dune to gie a body ony richt to
believe in ye? Ye're a guid rider, and a guid shot for a laddie, and ye
rin middlin fest I canna say like a deer, for I reckon I cud lick ye
mysel at rinnin! But, efter and a', ' 'Wha's braggin noo, Kirsty?' cried the boy, with a touch of not
ill humoured triumph... Continue reading book >>
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