Flemington And Tales From Angus

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Violet Jacob. Flemington And Tales From Angus

FLEMINGTON. TALES FROM ANGUS

Contents

TALES FROM ANGUS

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

‘Thievie’

The Disgracefulness of Auntie Thompson

The Debatable Land

The Fiddler

A Middle-Aged Drama

Annie Cargill

The Watch-Tower

The Figurehead

Euphemia

The Overthrow of Adam Pitcaithley

The Lum Hat. I

II

III

IV1

V

VI

The Fifty-Eight Wild Swans

The Yellow Dog

Anderson

Notes

FLEMINGTON

Contents

Introduction

NOTES

Prologue

Jetsam

A Coach-and-Five

Business

‘The Happy Land’

In Darkness and in Light

Treachery

The Heavy Hand

‘Toujours de l’Audace’

Adrift

The Guns of Montrose

Inchbrayock

The Interested Spectator

In Search of Sensation

Wattie has Theories

The Two Ends of the Line

Society

Balnillo finds Perfection

The Winter

The Parting of the Ways

Huntly Hill

Huntly Hill (continued)

The Muir of Pert

The Vanity of Men

A Royal Duke

The Vanishing Bird

Epilogue

Notes

Glossary

Other Books by Violet Jacob

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Author’s Note

About the Author

Copyright

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‘I wadna gang.’

He smiled as he said this and held the box tighter. As she looked at it in his grasp, some inherited instinct rose in her, and though it had been mainly valuable to her for what it would bring, should it pass from his drowned hands into her living ones, it became, at that moment, a thing desired and desirable for itself. She did not know what sum was in it, but the rage for possession of it came to her.

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