The Elect Lady
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George MacDonald. The Elect Lady
THE ELECT LADY
CHAPTER I. LANDLORD’S DAUGHTER AND TENANT’S SON
CHAPTER II. AN ACCIDENT
CHAPTER III. HELP
CHAPTER IV. THE LAIRD
CHAPTER V. AFTER SUPPER
CHAPTER VI. ABOUT THE LAIRD
CHAPTER VII. THE COUSINS
CHAPTER VIII. GEORGE AND THE LAIRD
CHAPTER IX. IN THE GARDEN
CHAPTER X. ANDREW INGRAM
CHAPTER XI. GEORGE AND ANDREW
CHAPTER XII. THE CRAWFORDS
CHAPTER XIII. DAWTIE
CHAPTER XIV. SANDY AND GEORGE
CHAPTER XV. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XVI. ANDREW AND DAWTIE
CHAPTER XVII. DAWTIE AND THE CUP
CHAPTER XVIII. DAWTIE AND THE LAIRD
CHAPTER XIX. ANDREW AND ALEXA
CHAPTER XX. GEORGE AND ANDREW
CHAPTER XXI. WHAT IS IT WORTH?
CHAPTER XXII. THE GAMBLER AND THE COLLECTOR
CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE MOOR
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WOOER
CHAPTER XXV. THE HEART OF THE HEART
CHAPTER XXVI. GEORGE CRAWFORD AND DAWTIE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE WATCH
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WILL
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SANGREAL
CHAPTER XXX. GEORGE AND THE GOLDEN GOBLET
CHAPTER XXXI. THE PROSECUTION
CHAPTER XXXII. A TALK AT POTLURG
CHAPTER XXXIII. A GREAT OFFERING
CHAPTER XXXIV. ANOTHER OFFERING
CHAPTER XXXV. AFTER THE VERDICT
CHAPTER XXXVI. AGAIN THE GOBLET
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN
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In a kitchen of moderate size, flagged with slate, humble in its appointments, yet looking scarcely that of a farmhouse—for there were utensils about it indicating necessities more artificial than usually grow upon a farm—with the corner of a white deal table between them, sat two young people evidently different in rank, and meeting upon no level of friendship. The young woman held in her hand a paper, which seemed the subject of their conversation. She was about four- or five-and-twenty, well grown and not ungraceful, with dark hair, dark hazel eyes, and rather large, handsome features, full of intelligence, but a little hard, and not a little regnant—as such features must be, except after prolonged influence of a heart potent in self-subjugation. As to her social expression, it was a mingling of the gentlewoman of education, and the farmer’s daughter supreme over the household and its share in the labor of production.
As to the young man, it would have required a deeper-seeing eye than falls to the lot of most observers, not to take him for a weaker nature than the young woman; and the deference he showed her as the superior, would have enhanced the difficulty of a true judgment. He was tall and thin, but plainly in fine health; had a good forehead, and a clear hazel eye, not overlarge or prominent, but full of light; a firm mouth, with a curious smile; a sun-burned complexion; and a habit when perplexed of pinching his upper lip between his finger and thumb, which at the present moment he was unconsciously indulging. He was the son of a small farmer—in what part of Scotland is of little consequence—and his companion for the moment was the daughter of the laird.
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“Perhaps after all you were in the right, Sandy!” said Andrew.
“I was just going to say that; when I think about it, perhaps I wasn’t so much in the right as I thought I was!”
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