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Munro Neil. Children of Tempest
Children of Tempest
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA
CHAPTER II. IN THE BLACK HOUSES
CHAPTER III. THE WIDOW AND HER SONS
CHAPTER IV. THE FIFTY-YEARS’ FORTUNE
CHAPTER V. THREE ISLANDS
CHAPTER VI. THE LOST LADY
CHAPTER VII. FOLLOWERS OF THE SEA
CHAPTER VIII. CRAFTY COL
CHAPTER IX. NIGHT SOUNDS
CHAPTER X. HIGH TIDE
CHAPTER XI. THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER XII. THE DEAD MONTHS
CHAPTER XIII. OVER TO BOISDALE
CHAPTER XIV. TIR-NAN-OIG
CHAPTER XV. A MESSENGER
CHAPTER XVI. A CONFESSION
CHAPTER XVII. LOVERS’ MOONS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BLOW
CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT CAROUSE
CHAPTER XX. HALF-BROTHERS
CHAPTER XXI. DUNCAN’S DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XXII. A STRICKEN HEART
CHAPTER XXIII. IN SHEALING DAYS
CHAPTER XXIV. SAND DRIFT
CHAPTER XXV. THE KIDNAPPING OF ANNA
CHAPTER XXVI. A NIGHT’S VOYAGE
CHAPTER XXVII. A PRISONER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SURRENDER OF THE SECRET
CHAPTER XXX. ANNA’S RETURN
CHAPTER XXXI. MINGULAY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE BLOOD OF THE MERRY DANCERS
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TURN OF THE TIDE
CHAPTER XXXIV. CONCLUSION
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Neil Munro
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He turned on his heel to go down from the rock the way he had mounted, when the open door of the chapel seemed to call him in. He hesitated for a little, bit his beard again, then challenged his resolution, went in with his cap in his hand, and awkwardly dipped a finger in the porringer. The bowl, perched precariously in its nook, toppled and fell on the floor, breaking in fragments, and splashing his boots with the holy water.
“God be about us, that’s bad!” said he, turning quickly from the unlucky omen. His going had been delayed but a few moments, yet they made nigh twelve months’ difference to the life of the man in the lug-sail boat, who was buffeted in the Sound where the black squalls chased each other. For what to him upon the rock was to be the last glance out to sea showed the lug-sail shake a moment, then belly suddenly, then the skiff upset and sink.
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