The Little Minister

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Barrie James Matthew. The Little Minister

Chapter One. THE LOVE-LIGHT

Chapter Two. RUNS ALONGSIDE THE MAKING OF A MINISTER

Chapter Three. THE NIGHT-WATCHERS

Chapter Four. FIRST COMING OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN

Chapter Five. A WARLIKE CHAPTER, CULMINATING IN THE FLOUTING OF THE MINISTER BY THE WOMAN

Chapter Six. IN WHICH THE SOLDIERS MEET THE AMAZONS OF THRUMS

Chapter Seven. HAS THE FOLLY OF LOOKING INTO A WOMAN’S EYES BY WAY OF TEXT

Chapter Eight. 3 A.M. – MONSTROUS AUDACITY OF THE WOMAN

Chapter Nine. THE WOMAN CONSIDERED IN ABSENCE – ADVENTURES OF A MILITARY CLOAK

Chapter Ten. FIRST SERMON AGAINST WOMEN

Chapter Eleven. TELLS IN A WHISPER OF MAN’S FALL DURING THE CURLING SEASON

Chapter Twelve. TRAGEDY OF A MUD HOUSE

Chapter Thirteen. SECOND COMING OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN

Chapter Fourteen. THE MINISTER DANCES TO THE WOMAN’S PIPING

Chapter Fifteen. THE MINISTER BEWITCHED – SECOND SERMON AGAINST WOMEN

Chapter Sixteen. CONTINUED MISBEHAVIOUR OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN

Chapter Seventeen. INTRUSION OF HAGGART INTO THESE PAGES AGAINST THE AUTHOR’S WISH

Chapter Eighteen. CADDAM – LOVE LEADING TO A RUPTURE

Chapter Nineteen. CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO THE FIRST SERMON IN APPROVAL OF WOMEN

Chapter Twenty. END OF THE STATE OF INDECISION

Chapter Twenty-One. NIGHT – MARGARET – FLASHING OF A LANTERN

Chapter Twenty-Two. LOVERS

Chapter Twenty-Three. CONTAINS A BIRTH, WHICH IS SUFFICIENT FOR ONE CHAPTER

Chapter Twenty-Four. THE NEW WORLD, AND THE WOMAN WHO MAY NOT DWELL THEREIN

Chapter Twenty-Five. BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Chapter Twenty-Six. SCENE AT THE SPITTAL

Chapter Twenty-Seven. FIRST JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Chapter Twenty-Eight. THE HILL BEFORE DARKNESS FELL – SCENE OF THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE

Chapter Twenty-Nine. STORY OF THE EGYPTIAN

Chapter Thirty. THE MEETING FOR RAIN

Chapter Thirty-One. VARIOUS BODIES CONVERGING ON THE HILL

Chapter Thirty-Two. LEADING SWIFTLY TO THE APPALLING MARRIAGE

Chapter Thirty-Three. WHILE THE TEN O’CLOCK BELL WAS RINGING

Chapter Thirty-Four. THE GREAT RAIN

Chapter Thirty-Five. THE GLEN AT BREAK OF DAY

Chapter Thirty-Six. STORY OF THE DOMINIE

Chapter Thirty-Seven. SECOND JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Chapter Thirty-Eight. THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS – DEFENCE OF THE MANSE

Chapter Thirty-Nine. HOW BABBIE SPENT THE NIGHT OF AUGUST FOURTH

Chapter Forty. BABBIE AND MARGARET – DEFENCE OF THE MANSE CONTINUED

Chapter Forty-One. RINTOUL AND BABBIE – BREAKDOWN OF THE DEFENCE OF THE MANSE

Chapter Forty-Two. MARGARET, THE PRECENTOR, AND GOD BETWEEN

Chapter Forty-Three. RAIN – MIST – THE JAWS

Chapter Forty-Four. END OF THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Chapter Forty-Five. TALK OF A LITTLE MAID SINCE GROWN TALL

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On the east coast of Scotland, hidden, as if in a quarry, at the foot of cliffs that may one day fall forward, is a village called Harvie. So has it shrunk since the day when I skulked from it that I hear of a traveller’s asking lately at one of its doors how far he was from a village; yet Harvie throve once and was celebrated even in distant Thrums for its fish. Most of our weavers would have thought it as unnatural not to buy harvies in the square on the Muckle Friday, as to let Saturday night pass without laying in a sufficient stock of halfpennies to go round the family twice.

Gavin was born in Harvie, but left it at such an early age that he could only recall thatched houses with nets drying on the roofs, and a sandy shore in which coarse grass grew. In the picture he could not pick out the house of his birth, though he might have been able to go to it had he ever returned to the village. Soon he learned that his mother did not care to speak of Harvie, and perhaps he thought that she had forgotten it too, all save one scene to which his memory still guided him. When his mind wandered to Harvie, Gavin saw the door of his home open and a fisherman enter, who scratched his head and then said, “Your man’s drowned, missis.” Gavin seemed to see many women crying, and his mother staring at them with a face suddenly painted white, and next to hear a voice that was his own saying, “Never mind, mother; I’ll be a man to you now, and I’ll need breeks for the burial.” But 8 Adam required no funeral, for his body lay deep in the sea.

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“Matthew, twelve and thirty-one,” he said.

“Dagont, Tammas,” exclaimed the baffled Cruickshanks, “you’re aye quoting Scripture. How do you no quote Feargus O’Connor?”

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