White Heather: A Novel (Volume 3 of 3)

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William Black. White Heather: A Novel (Volume 3 of 3)

CHAPTER I. A MESSAGE

CHAPTER II. IN GLASGOW TOWN

CHAPTER III. A RESOLVE

CHAPTER IV. A BOLDER STEP

CHAPTER V. A MEETING

CHAPTER VI. CONFESSION

CHAPTER VII. AT THE PEAR-TREE WELL

CHAPTER VIII. THE COMING OF TROUBLES

CHAPTER IX. IN OTHER CLIMES

CHAPTER X. A CHALLENGE

CHAPTER XI. A WEDDING

CHAPTER XII. IN DARKENED WAYS

CHAPTER XIII. IN ABSENCE

CHAPTER XIV. WANDERINGS IN THE WEST

CHAPTER XV. A PLEDGE REDEEMED

CHAPTER XVI. THE FACTOR OF BALNAVRAIN

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It was as late as half-past ten o'clock – and on a sufficiently gray and dull and cheerless morning – that Ronald's landlady, surprised not to have heard him stirring, knocked at his room. There was no answer. Then she knocked again, opened the door an inch or two, and dropped a letter on the floor.

'Are ye no up yet?'

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She stalked from the room, and banged the door behind her when she left. But she was really a good-hearted kind of creature; before she had reached the outer door she had recovered herself; and she turned and came into the room again, a single step or so.

'Ronald,' she said, in quite a different voice, 'it 'll no be for your good to quarrel wi' me —

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