What's Mine's Mine — Complete
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George MacDonald. What's Mine's Mine — Complete
VOL. I
CHAPTER I. HOW COME THEY THERE?
CHAPTER II. A SHORT GLANCE OVER THE SHOULDER
CHAPTER III. THE GIRLS' FIRST WALK
CHAPTER IV. THE SHOP IN THE VILLAGE
CHAPTER V. THE CHIEF
CHAPTER VI. WORK AND WAGE
CHAPTER VII. MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER VIII. A MORNING CALL
CHAPTER IX. ME. SERCOMBE
CHAPTER X. THE PLOUGH-BULLS
CHAPTER XI. THE FIR-GROVE
CHAPTER XII. AMONG THE HILLS
CHAPTER XIII. THE LAKE
CHAPTER XIV. THE WOLVES
CHAPTER XV. THE GULF THAT DIVIDED
CHAPTER XVI. THE CLAN CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER XVII. BETWEEN DANCING AND SUPPER
VOL. II
CHAPTER I. THE STORY TOLD BY IAN
CHAPTER II. ROB OF THE ANGELS
CHAPTER III. AT THE NEW HOUSE
CHAPTER IV. THE BROTHERS
CHAPTER V. THE PRINCESS
CHAPTER VI. THE TWO PAIRS
CHAPTER VII. AN CABRACH MOR
CHAPTER VIII. THE STAG'S HEAD
CHAPTER IX. ANNIE OF THE SHOP
CHAPTER X. THE ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER XI. A LESSON
CHAPTER XII. NATURE
CHAPTER XIII. GRANNY ANGRY
CHAPTER XIV. CHANGE
CHAPTER XV. LOVE ALLODIAL
CHAPTER XVI. MERCY CALLS ON GRANNIE
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE TOMB
VOL. III
CHAPTER I. AT A HIGH SCHOOL
CHAPTER II. A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER III. HOW ALISTER TOOK IT
CHAPTER IV. LOVE
CHAPTER V. PASSION AND PATIENCE
CHAPTER VI. LOVE GLOOMING
CHAPTER VII. A GENEROUS DOWRY
CHAPTER VIII. MISTRESS CONAL
CHAPTER IX. THE MARCHES
CHAPTER X. MIDNIGHT
CHAPTER XI. SOMETHING STRANGE
CHAPTER XII. THE POWER OF DARKNESS
CHAPTER XIII. THE NEW STANCE
CHAPTER XIV. THE PEAT-MOSS
CHAPTER XV. A DARING VISIT
CHAPTER XVI. THE FLITTING
CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW VILLAGE
CHAPTER XVIII. A FRIENDLY OFFER
CHAPTER XIX. ANOTHER EXPULSION
CHAPTER XX. ALISTER'S PRINCESS
CHAPTER XXI. THE FAREWELL
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The room was handsomely furnished, but such as I would quarrel with none for calling common, for it certainly was uninteresting. Not a thing in it had to do with genuine individual choice, but merely with the fashion and custom of the class to which its occupiers belonged. It was a dining-room, of good size, appointed with all the things a dining-room "ought" to have, mostly new, and entirely expensive—mirrored sideboard in oak; heavy chairs, just the dozen, in fawn-coloured morocco seats and backs—the dining-room, in short, of a London-house inhabited by rich middle-class people. A big fire blazed in the low round-backed grate, whose flashes were reflected in the steel fender and the ugly fire-irons that were never used. A snowy cloth of linen, finer than ordinary, for there was pride in the housekeeping, covered the large dining-table, and a company, evidently a family, was eating its breakfast. But how come these people THERE?
For, supposing my reader one of the company, let him rise from the well-appointed table—its silver, bright as the complex motions of butler's elbows can make it; its china, ornate though not elegant; its ham, huge, and neither too fat nor too lean; its game-pie, with nothing to be desired in composition, or in flavour natural or artificial;—let him rise from these and go to the left of the two windows, for there are two opposite each other, the room having been enlarged by being built out: if he be such a one as I would have for a reader, might I choose—a reader whose heart, not merely his eye, mirrors what he sees—one who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are;—if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.
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"You rascal!" he said; "you keep alongside of me, or I'll pepper you."
As he spoke, he shifted his gun. But Alister had already, with a few long strides, put a space of utter darkness between them. He had taken the shilling, and must carry the bag, but did not feel bound to personal attendance. At the same time he could not deny there was reason in the man's unwillingness to trust him. What had he about him to give him in pledge? Nothing but his watch, his father's, a gift of THE PRINCE to the head of the family!—he could not profane that by depositing it for a game-bag! He must yield to his employer, moderate his pace, and move side by side with the Sasunnach!
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