Lochinvar: A Novel
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Crockett Samuel Rutherford. Lochinvar: A Novel
FOREWORD TO THE TALE, TELLING WHAT BEFELL AT THE HOUSE OF BALMAGHIE IN THE YEAR OF GRACE 1685, AND HOW MY LADY WELLWOOD PARTED TWO YOUNG LOVERS
CHAPTER I. FROM LIKING TO LOVE
CHAPTER II. WHY KATE HATED LOCHINVAR
CHAPTER III. THE BULL, THE CALF, AND THE KILLER
CHAPTER IV. THE DUEL AT THE INN OF BREDERODE
CHAPTER V. HAXO THE BULL INTERFERES
CHAPTER VI. THE PRINCE OF ORANGE
CHAPTER VII. MISTRESS MAISIE LENNOX, DIPLOMATIST
CHAPTER VIII. THE STREET OF THE BUTCHERY
CHAPTER IX. MY LORD OF BARRA
CHAPTER X. THE DESCENT OF AVERNUS
CHAPTER XI. THE HEARTS OF WOMEN
CHAPTER XII. THE PRISON OF AMERSFORT
CHAPTER XIII. MY LORD OF BARRA'S VOW
CHAPTER XIV. MAISIE'S NIGHT QUEST
CHAPTER XV. A NIGHT OF STORM
CHAPTER XVI. THE BREAKING OF THE PRISON
CHAPTER XVII. JACK SCARLETT CALLS HIMSELF A FOOL
CHAPTER XVIII. A PERILOUS MEETING
CHAPTER XIX. THE BATTLE OF THE DUNES
CHAPTER XX. CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
CHAPTER XXI. THE GOOD SHIP SEA UNICORN
CHAPTER XXII. WISE JAN PETTIGREW
CHAPTER XXIII. WISE JAN WAXES WISER
CHAPTER XXIV. MADCAP MEHITABEL
CHAPTER XXV. TRUE LOVE AND PIGNUTS
CHAPTER XXVI. A BOAT IN SIGHT AT SULISCANNA
CHAPTER XXVII. THE TIDE-RACE OF SULISCANNA
CHAPTER XXVIII. JOHN SCARLETT COMES ASHORE
CHAPTER XXIX. WAT'S ISLE OF REFUGE
CHAPTER XXX. WAT SWIMS THE WATER CAVERN
CHAPTER XXXI. BESS LANDSBOROUGH'S CATECHISM
CHAPTER XXXII. THE SURRENDER OF THE BELOVED
CHAPTER XXXIII. AN ANCIENT LOVE AFFAIR
CHAPTER XXXIV. CAPTOR AND CAPTIVE
CHAPTER XXXV. SKIRTING THE BREAKERS
CHAPTER XXXVI. PASSAGE PERILOUS
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE ISLE OF BLISS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. MISFORTUNATE COLIN
CHAPTER XXXIX. SATAN SPIES OUT PARADISE
CHAPTER XL. SERPENT'S EGGS
CHAPTER XLI. LOVE THAT THINKETH NO EVIL
CHAPTER XLII. THE FIERY CROSS
CHAPTER XLIII. COLL O' THE COWS
CHAPTER XLIV. GREAT DUNDEE
CHAPTER XLV. KILLIEKRANKIE
CHAPTER XLVI. THE LEAGUER OF DUNKELD
CHAPTER XLVII. THE GOLDEN HEART
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE MASTER COMES HOME
CHAPTER XLIX. THE CURATE OF DALRY
CHAPTER L. LOCHINVAR KEEPS TRYST
CHAPTER LI. THE BRIDE'S LOVING-CUP
CHAPTER LII. CATCH THEM WHO CAN!
CHAPTER LIII. WITHIN THE KING'S MERCY
EPILOGUE OF SUPEREROGATION. BEING CHAPTER FIFTY-FOURTH, AND LAST
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It was graying to the edge of dark upon one of the evenings towards the end of April, in the year 1688, when Walter Gordon, of Lochinvar in Galloway, and now for some time private in the Prince of Orange's Douglas regiment of dragoons, strode up the stairs of his cousin Will's lodging in the ancient Dutch city of Amersfort. The young man had come straight from duty at the palace, and his humor was not exactly gracious.
But Wat Gordon could not long remain vexed in spirit in the presence of his cousin Will's wife, Maisie Lennox. Her still, sweet smile killed enmity, even as spring sunshine kills the bite of frost. The little, low-roofed Dutch room, panelled with oak, had its windows open towards the sun-setting, and there in the glow of the west two girls were sitting. At sight of them Walter Gordon stopped suddenly in the doorway as he came bursting in. He had been expecting to see but one – his cousin's young wife, into whose pretty ear of patientest sympathy he might pour his fretful boyish disappointments and much-baffled aspirations.
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"But are there, then, no others?" said the young man, jealously.
"None who have never forgotten, never slighted, never complained, never faltered in their love, save only my sweet Maisie Lennox," returned the girl, as she rose from her place and went towards the door, from behind which came the soft hum of voices in friendly conference.
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