Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume II)

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William Black. Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume II)

CHAPTER I. DOUBTS AND DREAMS

CHAPTER II. BY NORTHERN SEAS

CHAPTER III "HOLY PALMER'S KISS."

CHAPTER IV. INTERPOSITION

CHAPTER V. THE GNAWING FOX

CHAPTER VI. PUT TO THE PROOF

CHAPTER VII. RENEWING IS OF LOVE

CHAPTER VIII. ON THE BRINK

CHAPTER IX "AND HAST THOU PLAYED ME THIS!"

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Here, in front of the great, square, old-fashioned Scotch mansion, which was pleasantly lit up by the morning sun, stood the family waggonette which had just been filled by those of the house-party who were bound for church; and here, too, in the spacious porch, was Mrs. Ellison, smiling her adieux with rather a sad air.

"Good-bye, dear," said her kindly hostess. "I hope you will have got rid of your headache by the time we get back." And therewith the carriage was driven away along the pebbled pathway, through an avenue of magnificent wide-spreading elms.

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"There – enough of that! I did not intend to bother you with my small troubles when I stayed behind for you this morning. Come, shall we go out on to the rocks, and round by the little bay? What do you call it – Ganovan?"

"Yes; I think they call it Little Ganovan," he said, absently, as he and she together emerged from the twilight of larch and pine, and proceeded, leisurely and in silence, to cross the semicircular sweep of yellow sand.

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