Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
CHARACTERS
GREY DAYLIGHT
PATRON
PUBLISHER
PRINTER
THIN ICE
SCOTIA’S DARLING SEAT
THE TENTH WORTHY
THE EDINBURGH GENTRY
THE BARD AND THE BISHOP
HENRY MACKENZIE’S VERDICT
THE OFFER OF PATRICK MILLER
LETTERS TO AYR
SUBSTITUTES
JAMES SIBBALD
VERDICTS
THE CADDIE’S ADVICE
CORPORAL TRIM’S HAT
BALLOON TYTLER
THE PORTRAIT PAINTER
DUNDAS AND BRAXFIELD
THE MEN OF LETTERS
THE BUBBLE OF FAME
LOWLAND PEGGY
LETTER TO JOHN BALLANTINE
“Your much indebted humble servant...”
THE FRIEND OF FERGUSSON
SAINT CECILIA’S HALL
A FRIENDSHIP IS BORN
CROCHALLAN CRONIES
LOOK UP AND SEE
THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE
ALL THE BLUE DEVILS
BEGINNING TO DRIFT
ROBERT CLEGHORN
SPRING SUNSHINE
A QUESTION OF FAITH
SALE OF A BIRTHRIGHT
GOOD-BYE TO PEGGY CAMERON
PURPOSE
MRS. CARFRAE SAYS GOOD-BYE
GRATITUDE
MAY MORNING
OVER THE LAMMERMUIRS
SUNDAY AT BERRYWELL
ON ENGLISH SOIL
MELTING PLEASURE
THE GUIDWIFE OF WAUCHOPE HOUSE
SWEET ISABELLA LINDSAY
GILBERT KER OF STODRIG
WILLIE’S AWA’
ELIBANKS AND ELIBRAES
BACK TO DUNSE
THE NYMPH WITH THE MANIA
DOCTOR BOWMAKER AND CIMON GRAY
SWEET RACHEL AINSLIE
ENGLISH JOURNEY
THE LASS AT LONGTOWN
NATIVE HEATH
LASSIE, MY DEARIE
FAMILY FAVOURITE
JAMES ARMOUR FORGETS
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
PRESENT FOR JOHN RANKINE
DALJARROCK PEGGY
A SNUB FOR HOLY WILLIE
DADDY AULD IS TROUBLED
LASSIE, LIE NEAR ME
THE FAIR ELIZA
INQUEST ON MARY CAMPBELL
CAMPBELL COUNTRY
HYMN TO THE SUN
FREEDOM OF DUMBARTON
COWGATE NIGHTS
HEAT WAVE IN AULD REEKIE
BED AT WILLIE NICOL’S
INTERVIEWS
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
HURRAH FOR THE HIGHLANDS
A CLASSIC TEXT
A LOVELY MORNING
THE OLD BLUE WHINSTONE
STIRLING CASTLE
ON DEVON’S BANKS
INSTINCTS OF A GENTLEMAN
THE BOB O’ DUNBLANE
NORTHERN SCENES
THE BIRKS OF ABERFELDY
A FIDDLER FROM THE NORTH
CUMHA CHLAIBHERS
WORTH GOING A MILE
GHOSTING THE GLOAMING
NEVER AT THE CENTRE
SCENE OF A MURDER
A HIGHLAND BAILLIE
THE LONG GRAVES
BONNIE CASTLE GORDON
ABERDEEN AWA’
FATHERLAND
BACK TO AULD REEKIE
END OF AN IDYLL
REASON FOR LIVING
THE ROSEBUD
AYRSHIRE INTERVIEW
NO ESCAPE
MORE PATIENCE
HISTORY OF A YOUNG WIDOW
MISTRESS AND MAID
THE ONSLAUGHT
THE FIRST LETTER
EVIL STAR
LOVE LETTERS
THE WEAKEST LINK
WOMEN MUST WAIT
MASKS OFF
TO GRAHAM OF FINTRY
NEWS OF JEAN
BEHIND THE SCENES
HEAVEN—AND CLARINDA
JENNY CLOW
HUMILIATION
THE BARRIERS DOWN
THE FIRST PARTING
THE THOUGHT FOR THE DEED
CLARINDA SHOWS HER CARDS
PROVISION FOR JEAN
THE RECANTATION OF FATHER AULD
THE MAHOGANY BED
ON THE BANKS OF THE NITH
NO QUESTION OF BAPTISM
TAIT’S MASTERPIECE
GAVIN HAMILTON’S CLAY FEET
TO ROBERT MUIR, DYING
CLARINDA’S CLAWS
WEAL OR WOE
AULD REEKIE AGAIN
THE SECRET CHAMBER
THE EXCISE COMMISSION
JAMES JOHNSON
THE INSTALLATION OF AINSLIE
JENNY’S BAWBEE
THE DEATH OF SYLVANDER
FAREWELL TO AULD REEKIE
A CRACK WI’ ADAMHILL
CONCERNING THE EXCISE
SONG WITHOUT WORDS
DADDY AULD DELIBERATES
THE MOTHER
ETERNITY IN A SIGH
THE WORDS AND THE SONG
GLOSSARY