KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD

By L. M. MONTGOMERY

Author of “Anne’s House of Dreams,” “Rainbow Valley,"
“Rilla of Ingleside,” etc.

Transcriber’s Note:
This book has been put on-line as part of the BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative at the Celebration of Women Writers through the combined work of Elizabeth Morton and Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Reformatted by Ben Crowder

TO MY COUSIN
Beatrice A. McIntyre
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

“Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace,
But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny’s face;
As still was her look, and as still was her ee,
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea,
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Such beauty bard may never declare,
For there was no pride nor passion there;
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Her seymar was the lily flower,
And her cheek the moss-rose in the shower;
And her voice like the distant melodye
That floats along the twilight sea.”
— The Queen’s Wake JAMES HOGG

CONTENTS

[ CHAPTER I. THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH ]

[ CHAPTER II. A LETTER OF DESTINY ]

[ CHAPTER III. THE MASTER OF LINDSAY SCHOOL ]

[ CHAPTER IV. A TEA TABLE CONVERSATION ]

[ CHAPTER V. A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT ]

[ CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF KILMENY ]

[ CHAPTER VII. A ROSE OF WOMANHOOD ]

[ CHAPTER VIII. AT THE GATE OF EDEN ]

[ CHAPTER IX. THE STRAIGHT SIMPLICITY OF EVE ]

[ CHAPTER X. A TROUBLING OF THE WATERS ]

[ CHAPTER XI. A LOVER AND HIS LASS ]