CONTENTS

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I.The Love-Light.[1]
II.Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister.[7]
III.The Night-Watchers.[17]
IV.First Coming of the Egyptian Woman.[30]
V.A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman.[42]
VI.In Which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums.[50]
VII.Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman’s Eyes by way of Text.[62]
VIII.3 A.M.—Monstrous Audacity of the Woman.[69]
IX.The Woman Considered in Absence—Adventures of a Military Cloak.[79]
X.First Sermon Against Women.[89]
XI.Tells in a Whisper of Man’s Fall During the Curling Season.[100]
XII.Tragedy of a Mud House.[110]
XIII.Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman.[117]
XIV.The Minister Dances to the Woman’s Piping.[125]
XV.The Minister Bewitched—Second Sermon against Women.[135]
XVI.Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman.[143]
XVII.Intrusion of Haggart into These Pages against the Author’s Wish.[151]
XVIII.Caddam—Love Leading to a Rupture.[161]
XIX.Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women.[169]
XX.End of the State of Indecision.[177]
XXI.Night—Margaret—Flashing of a Lantern.[186]
XXII.Lovers.[196]
XXIII.Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter.[205]
XXIV.The New World, and the Woman Who May Not Dwell Therein.[211]
XXV.Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours.[217]
XXVI.Scene at the Spittal.[225]
XXVII.First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours.[232]
XXVIII.The Hill before Darkness Fell—Scene of the Impending Catastrophe.[237]
XXIX.Story of the Egyptian.[244]
XXX.The Meeting for Rain.[252]
XXXI.Various Bodies Converging on the Hill.[259]
XXXII.Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage.[268]
XXXIII.While the Ten O’Clock Bell Was Ringing.[274]
XXXIV.The Great Rain.[281]
XXXV.The Glen at Break of Day.[285]
XXXVI.Story of the Dominie.[299]
XXXVII.Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours.[308]
XXXVIII.Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours—Defence of the Manse.[315]
XXXIX.How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth.[324]
XL.Babbie and Margaret—Defence of the Manse Continued.[330]
XLI.Rintoul and Babbie—Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse.[337]
XLII.Margaret, the Precentor, and God Between.[345]
XLIII.Rain—Mist—The Jaws.[353]
XLIV.End of the Twenty-Four Hours.[363]
XLV.Talk of a Little Maid Since Grown Tall.[369]

“I’LL GI’E YOU MY RABBIT,” MICAH SAID, “IF YOU’LL GANG AWA’.”—[Page 215].