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TO
AN UNDYING MEMORY
AUTHOR’S NOTE
BEFORE proceeding with this story I must apologize for a striking inaccuracy which it contains. I have represented the educated characters as speaking, but for certain turns of phrase, the ordinary English which is now universal. But, in Scotland, in the very early nineteenth century, gentle and simple alike kept a national distinction of language, and remnants of it lingered in the conversation, as I remember it, of the two venerable and unique old ladies from whom the characters of Miss Hersey Robertson and her sister are taken. They called it ‘Court Scots.’
For the assistance of that tender person, the General Reader, I have ignored it.
V. J.
1903.
CONTENTS | ||
| BOOK I | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | [THE HEIR] | 1 |
| II. | [AT GARVIEKIRK] | 14 |
| III. | [FRIENDSHIP] | 24 |
| IV. | [JIMMY] | 36 |
| V. | [THE STRIFE OF TONGUES] | 49 |
| VI. | [THE DOVECOTE OF MORPHIE] | 59 |
| VII. | [THE LOOKING-GLASS] | 73 |
| VIII. | [THE HOUSE IN THE CLOSE] | 81 |
| IX. | [ON FOOT AND ON WHEELS] | 91 |
| X. | [KING COPHETUA’S CORRESPONDENCE] | 101 |
| XI. | [THE MOUSE AND THE LION] | 111 |
| XII. | [GRANNIE TAKES A STRONG ATTITUDE] | 117 |
| XIII. | [PLAIN SPEAKING] | 127 |
| XIV. | [STORM AND BROWN SILK] | 140 |
| XV. | [THE THIRD VOICE] | 150 |
| XVI. | [BETWEEN LADY ELIZA AND CECILIA] | 160 |
| XVII. | [CECILIA PAYS HER DEBTS] | 168 |
| XVIII. | [THE BOX WITH THE LAUREL-WREATH] | 177 |
| BOOK II | ||
| XIX. | [SIX MONTHS] | 186 |
| XX. | [ROCKET] | 194 |
| XXI. | [THE BROKEN LINK] | 205 |
| XXII. | [CECILIA SEES THE WILD GEESE] | 215 |
| XXIII. | [AN EMPTY HOUSE] | 225 |
| XXIV. | [A ROYAL VISIT] | 234 |
| XXV. | [MRS. SOMERVILLE HAS SCRUPLES] | 241 |
| XXVI. | [ALEXANDER BARCLAY DOES HIS BEST] | 251 |
| XXVII. | [THE SKY FALLS ON GILBERT] | 257 |
| XXVIII. | [AGNETA ON THE UNEXPECTED] | 269 |
| XXIX. | [THE QUEEN OF THE CADGERS TAKES THE ROAD] | 275 |
| XXX. | [MORPHIE KIRK] | 286 |
| [EPILOGUE] | 298 | |