John Burnet of Barns: A Romance
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Buchan John. John Burnet of Barns: A Romance
BOOK I – TWEEDDALE
CHAPTER I. THE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL ME IN THE WOOD OF DAWYCK
CHAPTER II. THE HOUSE OF BARNS
CHAPTER III. THE SPATE IN TWEED
CHAPTER IV. I GO TO THE COLLEGE AT GLASGOW
CHAPTER V. COUSINLY AFFECTION
CHAPTER VI. HOW MASTER GILBERT BURNET PLAYED A GAME AND WAS CHECKMATED
CHAPTER VII. THE PEGASUS INN AT PEEBLES AND HOW A STRANGER RETURNED FROM THE WARS
CHAPTER VIII. I TAKE LEAVE OF MY FRIENDS
CHAPTER IX. I RIDE OUT ON MY TRAVELS AND FIND A COMPANION
BOOK II – THE LOW COUNTRIES
CHAPTER I. OF MY VOYAGE TO THE LOW COUNTRIES
CHAPTER II. I VISIT MASTER PETER WISHART
CHAPTER III. THE STORY OF A SUPPER PARTY
CHAPTER IV. OUR ADVENTURE ON THE ALPHEN ROAD
CHAPTER V. THE FIRST SUNDAY OF MARCH
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH
CHAPTER VII. I SPEND MY DAYS IN IDLENESS
CHAPTER VIII. THE COMING OF THE BRIG SEAMAW
CHAPTER IX. AN ACCOUNT OF MY HOME-COMING
BOOK III – THE HILLMEN
CHAPTER I. THE PIER O' LEITH
CHAPTER II. HOW I RODE TO THE SOUTH
CHAPTER III. THE HOUSE OF DAWYCK
CHAPTER IV. HOW MICHAEL VEITCH MET HIS END
CHAPTER V. I CLAIM A PROMISE, AND WE SEEK THE HILLS
CHAPTER VI. THE CAVE OF THE COR WATER
CHAPTER VII. HOW TWO OF HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS MET WITH THEIR DESERTS
CHAPTER VIII. OF OUR WANDERINGS AMONG THE MOORS OF CLYDE
CHAPTER IX. I PART FROM MARJORY
CHAPTER X. OF THE MAN WITH THE ONE EYE AND THE ENCOUNTER IN THE GREEN CLEUCH
CHAPTER XI. HOW A MILLER STROVE WITH HIS OWN MILL-WHEEL
CHAPTER XII. I WITNESS A VALIANT ENDING
CHAPTER XIII. I RUN A NARROW ESCAPE FOR MY LIFE
CHAPTER XIV. I FALL IN WITH STRANGE FRIENDS
CHAPTER XV. THE BAILLIES OF NO MAN'S LAND
CHAPTER XVI. HOW THREE MEN HELD A TOWN IN TERROR
CHAPTER XVII. OF THE FIGHT IN THE MOSS OF BIGGAR
CHAPTER XVIII. SMITWOOD
BOOK IV – THE WESTLANDS
CHAPTER I. I HEAR NO GOOD IN THE INN AT THE FORDS O' CLYDE
CHAPTER II. AN OLD JOURNEY WITH A NEW ERRAND
CHAPTER III. THE HOUSE WITH THE CHIPPED GABLES
CHAPTER IV. UP HILL AND DOWN DALE
CHAPTER V. EAGLESHAM
CHAPTER VI. I MAKE MY PEACE WITH GILBERT BURNET
CHAPTER VII. OF A VOICE IN THE EVENTIDE
CHAPTER VIII. HOW NICOL PLENDERLEITH SOUGHT HIS FORTUNE ELSEWHERE
CHAPTER IX. THE END OF ALL THINGS
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I have taken in hand to write this, the history of my life, not without much misgiving of heart; for my memory at the best is a bad one, and of many things I have no clear remembrance. And the making of tales is an art unknown to me, so he who may read must not look for any great skill in the setting down. Yet I am emboldened to the work, for my life has been lived in stirring times and amid many strange scenes which may not wholly lack interest for those who live in quieter days. And above all, I am desirous that they of my family should read of my life and learn the qualities both good and bad which run in the race, and so the better be able to resist the evil and do the good.
My course, by the will of God, has had something of a method about it, which makes the telling the more easy. For, as I look back upon it from the vantage ground of time, all seems spread out plain and clear in an ordered path. And I would but seek to trace again some portion of the way with the light of a dim memory.
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The man stood still for maybe three minutes with his eyes fixed on the ground as if to recover breath. Then he got up with dazed glances, like one wakening from sleep. He stared at me, then at the players, and burst into his tale, speaking in a high, excited voice.
"I hae run frae Drummeller to bring ye word. Quick and get the folk out o' the waterside hooses or the feck o' the toun 'll be soomin' to Berwick in an 'oor."
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