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J. M. Barrie. The Little Minister
The Little Minister
Table of Contents
Footnote
Chapter One. THE LOVE-LIGHT
Chapter Two. RUNS ALONGSIDE THE MAKING OF A MINISTER
Chapter Three. THE NIGHT-WATCHERS
Chapter Four. FIRST COMING OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN
Chapter Five. A WARLIKE CHAPTER, CULMINATING IN THE FLOUTING OF THE MINISTER BY THE WOMAN
Chapter Six. IN WHICH THE SOLDIERS MEET THE AMAZONS OF THRUMS
Chapter Seven. HAS THE FOLLY OF LOOKING INTO A WOMAN’S EYES BY WAY OF TEXT
Chapter Eight. 3 A.M.—MONSTROUS AUDACITY OF THE WOMAN
Chapter Nine. THE WOMAN CONSIDERED IN ABSENCE—ADVENTURES OF A MILITARY CLOAK
Chapter Ten. FIRST SERMON AGAINST WOMEN
Chapter Eleven. TELLS IN A WHISPER OF MAN’S FALL DURING THE CURLING SEASON
Chapter Twelve. TRAGEDY OF A MUD HOUSE
Chapter Thirteen. SECOND COMING OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN
Chapter Fourteen. THE MINISTER DANCES TO THE WOMAN’S PIPING
Chapter Fifteen. THE MINISTER BEWITCHED—SECOND SERMON AGAINST WOMEN
Chapter Sixteen. CONTINUED MISBEHAVIOUR OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN
Chapter Seventeen. INTRUSION OF HAGGART INTO THESE PAGES AGAINST THE AUTHOR’S WISH
Chapter Eighteen. CADDAM—LOVE LEADING TO A RUPTURE
Chapter Nineteen. CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO THE FIRST SERMON IN APPROVAL OF WOMEN
Chapter Twenty. END OF THE STATE OF INDECISION
Chapter Twenty-One. NIGHT—MARGARET—FLASHING OF A LANTERN
Chapter Twenty-Two. LOVERS
Chapter Twenty-Three. CONTAINS A BIRTH, WHICH IS SUFFICIENT FOR ONE CHAPTER
Chapter Twenty-Four. THE NEW WORLD, AND THE WOMAN WHO MAY NOT DWELL THEREIN
Chapter Twenty-Five. BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Chapter Twenty-Six. SCENE AT THE SPITTAL
Chapter Twenty-Seven. FIRST JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Chapter Twenty-Eight. THE HILL BEFORE DARKNESS FELL—SCENE OF THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE
Chapter Twenty-Nine. STORY OF THE EGYPTIAN
Chapter Thirty. THE MEETING FOR RAIN
Chapter Thirty-One. VARIOUS BODIES CONVERGING ON THE HILL
Chapter Thirty-Two. LEADING SWIFTLY TO THE APPALLING MARRIAGE
Chapter Thirty-Three. WHILE THE TEN O’CLOCK BELL WAS RINGING
Chapter Thirty-Four. THE GREAT RAIN
Chapter Thirty-Five. THE GLEN AT BREAK OF DAY
Chapter Thirty-Six. STORY OF THE DOMINIE
Chapter Thirty-Seven. SECOND JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Chapter Thirty-Eight. THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS—DEFENCE OF THE MANSE
Chapter Thirty-Nine. HOW BABBIE SPENT THE NIGHT OF AUGUST FOURTH
Chapter Forty. BABBIE AND MARGARET—DEFENCE OF THE MANSE CONTINUED
Chapter Forty-One. RINTOUL AND BABBIE—BREAKDOWN OF THE DEFENCE OF THE MANSE
Chapter Forty-Two. MARGARET, THE PRECENTOR, AND GOD BETWEEN
Chapter Forty-Three. RAIN—MIST—THE JAWS
Chapter Forty-Four. END OF THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Chapter Forty-Five. TALK OF A LITTLE MAID SINCE GROWN TALL
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J. M. Barrie
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“You saw my father crying the minister back? It was to gie him twa pound, and, says my father, ‘God helping me,’ he says, ‘I’ll droon mysel in the dam rather than let the drink master me, but in case it should get haud o’ me and I should die drunk, it would be a michty gratification to me to ken that you had the siller to bury me respectable without ony help frae the poor’s rates.’ The minister wasna for taking it at first, 35 but he took it when he saw how earnest my father was. Ay, he’s a noble man. After he gaed awa my father made me learn the names o’ the apostles frae Luke sixth, and he says to me, ‘Miss out Bartholomew,’ he says, ‘for he did little, and put Gavin Dishart in his place.’”
Feeling as old as he sometimes tried to look, Gavin turned homeward. Margaret was already listening for him. You may be sure she knew his step. I think our steps vary as much as the human face. My bookshelves were made by a blind man who could identify by their steps nearly all who passed his window. Yet he has admitted to me that he could not tell wherein my steps differed from others; and this I believe, though rejecting his boast that he could distinguish a minister’s step from a doctor’s, and even tell to which denomination the minister belonged.
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