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Patsy By: Samuel R. Crockett (1860-1914) |
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BY S. R. CROCKETT AUTHOR OF "THE RAIDERS," "THE STICKIT MINISTER," "LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM,"
"ANNE OF THE BARRICADES," ETC.
SYNDICATE PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1913.
Reprinted February, 1913; April, December, 1913.
[Illustration: "Yes, I," said Patsy.]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. HEIRESS AND HEIR CHAPTER II. THE MAIDENS' COVE CHAPTER III. THE BOTHY CHAPTER IV. BY FORCE OF ARMS CHAPTER V. PATSY'S CONFESSIONS CHAPTER VI. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS CHAPTER VII. THE LADS IN THE HEATHER CHAPTER VIII. THE BLACK PEARL OF CAIRN FERRIS CHAPTER IX. HIS LIFE IN HIS HAND CHAPTER X. THE WICKED LAYETH A SNARE CHAPTER XI. THE TRAMPLING OF HORSE IN THE NIGHT CHAPTER XII. PATSY'S RESCUE CHAPTER XIII. PLOTS AND PRINCES CHAPTER XIV. THE END OF AN OLD FEUD CHAPTER XV. THE FECHTIN' FOOL CHAPTER XVI. A RIDER COMES TO CASTLE RAINCY CHAPTER XVII. PATSY HELD IN HONOUR CHAPTER XVIII. UNCLE JULIAN'S PRINCESS CHAPTER XIX. MISS ALINE TAKES COMMAND CHAPTER XX. LOUIS RAINCY ENDURES HARDNESS CHAPTER XXI. THE CAVE OF ADULLAM CHAPTER XXII. WINTER AFTERNOON CHAPTER XXIII. PATSY HAS GREATNESS THRUST UPON HER CHAPTER XXIV. THE LOST FOLK'S ACRE CHAPTER XXV. THE HIGH STILE CHAPTER XXVI. THE GIBBET RING CHAPTER XXVII. THE DUKES ... AND SUPSORROW CHAPTER XXVIII. THE "GREEN DRAGON" CHAPTER XXIX. ENEMY'S COUNTRY CHAPTER XXX. A CREDIT TO THE "GREEN DRAGON" CHAPTER XXXI. THE NIGHT LANDING CHAPTER XXXII. ORDEAL BY FIRE CHAPTER XXXIII. PATSY RAISES THE COUNTRY CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PRISON BREAKERS CHAPTER XXXV. THE PICTS' WAY IS THE WOMAN'S WAY CHAPTER XXXVI. STIFF NECKED AND REBELLIOUS CHAPTER XXXVII. A PICTISH HONEYMOON CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE LAND OF ALWAYS AFTERNOON CHAPTER XXXIX. REBEL GALLOWAY CHAPTER XL. "WHY DO THEY LOVE YOU?" CHAPTER XLI. THE BATTLE OF THE CAUSEWAY
CHAPTER I HEIRESS AND HEIR
They stood high on the Abbey cliff edge an old man, eagle profiled,
hawk beaked, cockatoo crested, with angry grey eyebrows running peakily
upwards towards his temples at either side ... and a boy. They were the Earl Raincy and his grandson Louis all the world knew
them in that country of the Southern Albanach. For Leo Raincy was a
great man, and the lad the heir of all he possessed. For all or almost all they looked upon belonged to the Earl of Raincy.
Even those blue hills bounding the meadow valleys to the north hid a
fair half of his property, and he was sorry for that. Because he was a
land miser, hoarding parishes and townships. He grudged the sea its
fringe of foam, the three mile fishing limit, the very high and low mark
between the tides which was not his, but belonged to the crown along
which the common people had a right to pass, and where fisherfolk from
the neighbouring villages might fish and dry their nets, when all ought
to have been his. The earl's dark eyes passed with carelessness over hundreds of
farm towns, snug sheltered villages, mills with little threads of white
wimpling away from the unheard constant clack of the wheel, barns, byres
and stackyards all were his, but of these he took no heed. Behind them Castle Raincy itself stood up finely from the plain of
corn land and green park, an artificial lake in front, deep trees all
about, patterned gardens, the fiery flash of hot house glass where the
sun struck, and pinnacles high in air, above all the tall tower from
which Margaret de Raincy had defied the English invader during the
minority of James the Fifth. The earl's eyes passed all these over. He
did not see them as aught to take pride in. What he lingered upon was the wide pleasant valley beneath him, with a
burn running and lurking among twinkling birches, interspersed with
alders, many finely drained fields with the cows feeding belly deep with
twitching tails, and the sweep of the ripening crops which ran off to
either side over knolls carefully planed down and so back and back to
the shelter of dark fir woods... Continue reading book >>
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