Midwinter: Certain Travellers in Old England

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Buchan John. Midwinter: Certain Travellers in Old England

Midwinter: Certain Travellers in Old England

Table of Contents

Preface By the Editor

I In which a Highland Gentleman Misses his Way

II In which a Nobleman is Perplexed

III In which Private Matters Cut Across Affairs of State

IV Mr. Kyd of Greyhouses

V Chance-Medley

VI Introduces the Runaway Lady

VII How a Man May Hunt with the Hounds and yet. Run with the Hare

VIII Broom at the Cross-Roads

IX Old England

X Snowbound at the Sleeping Deer

XI Night at the Same: Two Visitors

XII The Hut in the Oak Shaw

XIII Journeyman John

XIV Duchess Kitty on the Road

XV Bids Farewell to a Scots Laird

XVI Bids Farewell to an English Lady

XVII Ordeal of Honour

XVIII In which Three Gentlemen Confess their Nakedness

XIX Ramoth-Gilead

Postscript

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John Buchan

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The man shook his head. "I have nothing. For our true name is that I have sung to you. We are the Naked Men." And he crooned again the strange catch.

For an instant Alastair felt his soul clouded by an eeriness which his bustling life had not known since as a little boy he had wandered alone into the corries of Sgurr Dubh. The moonless night was black about him, and it had fallen silent except for the sputter of logs. He seemed cut off from all things familiar by infinite miles of midnight, and in the heart of the darkness was this madman who knew all things and made a mock of knowledge. The situation so far transcended his experience that his orderly world seemed to melt into shadows. The tangible bounds of life dislimned and he looked into outer space. But the fiddler dispelled the atmosphere of awe, for he pulled out a pipe and filled and lit it.

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