Lochinvar: A Novel

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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