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DONAL GRANT

BY
GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D.

1905 edition

CONTENTS

[I. FOOT-FARING.]
[II. A SPIRITUAL FOOT-PAD.]
[III. THE MOOR.]
[IV. THE TOWN.]
[V. THE COBBLER.]
[VI. DOORY.]
[VII. A SUNDAY.]
[VIII. THE GATE.]
[IX. THE MORVEN ARMS.]
[X. THE PARISH CLERGYMAN.]
[XI. THE EARL.]
[XII. THE CASTLE.]
[XIII. A SOUND.]
[XIV. THE SCHOOLROOM.]
[XV. HORSE AND MAN.]
[XVI. COLLOQUIES.]
[XVII. LADY ARCTURA.]
[XVIII. A CLASH.]
[XIX. THE FACTOR.]
[XX. THE OLD GARDEN.]
[XXI. A FIRST MEETING.]
[XXII. A TALK ABOUT GHOSTS.]
[XXIII. A TRADITION OF THE CASTLE.]
[XXIV. STEPHEN KENNEDY.]
[XXV. EVASION.]
[XXVI. CONFRONTMENT.]
[XXVII. THE SOUL OF THE OLD GARDEN.]
[XXVIII. A PRESENCE YET NOT A PRESENCE.]
[XXIX. EPPY AGAIN.]
[XXX. LORD MORVEN.]
[XXXI. BEWILDERMENT.]
[XXXII. THE SECOND DINNER WITH THE EARL.]
[XXXIII. THE HOUSEKEEPER’S ROOM.]
[XXXIV. COBBLER AND CASTLE.]
[XXXV. THE EARL’S BEDCHAMBER.]
[XXXVI. A NIGHT-WATCH.]
[XXXVII. LORD FORGUE AND LADY ARCTURA.]
[XXXVIII. ARCTURA AND SOPHIA.]
[XXXIX. THE CASTLE-ROOF.]
[XL. A RELIGION-LESSON.]
[XLI. THE MUSIC-NEST.]
[XLII. COMMUNISM.]
[XLIII. EPPY AND KENNEDY.]
[XLIV. HIGH AND LOW.]
[XLV. A LAST ENCOUNTER.]
[XLVI. A HORRIBLE STORY.]
[XLVII. MORVEN HOUSE]
[XLVIII. PATERNAL REVENGE.]
[XLIX. FILIAL RESPONSE.]
[L. A SOUTH-EASTERLY WIND.]
[LI. A DREAM.]
[LII. INVESTIGATION.]
[LIII. MISTRESS BROOKES UPON THE EARL.]
[LIV. LADY ARCTURA’S ROOM.]
[LV. HER BED-CHAMBER.]
[LVI. THE LOST ROOM.]
[LVII. THE HOUSEKEEPER’S ROOM.]
[LVIII. A SOUL DISEASED.]
[LIX. DUST TO DUST.]
[LX. A LESSON ABOUT DEATH.]
[LXI. THE BUREAU.]
[LXII. THE CRYPT.]
[LXIII. THE CLOSET.]
[LXIV. THE GARLAND-ROOM.]
[LXV. THE WALL.]
[LXVI. PROGRESS AND CHANGE.]
[LXVII. THE BREAKFAST-ROOM.]
[LXVIII. LARKIE.]
[LXIX. THE SICK-CHAMBER.]
[LXX. A PLOT.]
[LXXI. GLASHGAR.]
[LXXII. SENT, NOT CALLED.]
[LXXIII. IN THE NIGHT.]
[LXXIV. A MORAL FUNGUS.]
[LXXV. THE PORCH OF HADES.]
[LXXVI. THE ANGEL OF THE LORD.]
[LXXVII. THE ANGEL OF THE DEVIL.]
[LXXVIII. RESTORATION.]
[LXXIX. A SLOW TRANSITION.]
[LXXX. AWAY-FARING.]
[LXXXI. A WILL AND A WEDDING.]
[LXXXII. THE WILL.]
[LXXXIII. INSIGHT.]
[LXXXIV. MORVEN HOUSE.]

CHAPTER I.
FOOT-FARING.

It was a lovely morning in the first of summer. Donal Grant was descending a path on a hillside to the valley below—a sheep-track of which he knew every winding as well as any boy his half-mile to and from school. But he had never before gone down the hill with the feeling that he was not about to go up again. He was on his way to pastures very new, and in the distance only negatively inviting. But his heart was too full to be troubled—nor was his a heart to harbour a care, the next thing to an evil spirit, though not quite so bad; for one care may drive out another, while one devil is sure to bring in another.