John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman and the Little Wars of Lorn
By Neil Munro
Length12h 49m
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Excerpt: "To read this tale, dear Hugh, without any association of its incidents with the old respectable chronicles of the Historians is what I should wish you could always do. That is the happy manner with Romance; that is the enviable aptness of the child. But when (by the favour of God) you grow older and more reflective, seeking perhaps for more in these pages than they meant to give, you may wonder that the streets, the lanes, the tenements herein set forth so much resemble those we know to-day, though less than two hundred years ago the bracken waved upon their promontory. You may wonder, too, that the Silver Mines of Coillebhraid, discovered in the time of your greatgrandfather, should have so strangely been anticipated in the age of Gillesbeg Gruamach. Let not those chronological divergences perturb you; they were in the manuscript (which you will be good enough to assume) of Elrigmore, and I would not alter them. Nor do I diminish by a single hour Elrigmore's estimate that two days were taken on the Miraculous Journey to Inverlochy, though numerous histories have made it less. In that, as in a few other details, Elrigmore's account is borne out by one you know to whom The Little Wars of Lorn and Lochaber are yet, as it were, an impulse of yesterday, and the name of Athole is utterly detestable."
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length12 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1DEDICATION.
19CHAPTER XIX.—THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY.
2CHAPTER I.—FROM THE FOREIGN FIELD.
20CHAPTER XX.—INVERLOCHY.
3CHAPTER II.—GILLESBEG GRUAMACH.
21CHAPTER XXI.—SEVEN BROKEN MEN.
4CHAPTER III.—THE LADY ON THE STAIR.
22CHAPTER XXII.—DAME DUBH.
5CHAPTER IV.—A NIGHT ALARM.
23CHAPTER XXIII.—THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE.
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6CHAPTER V.—KIRK LAW.
24CHAPTER XXIV.—A NIGHT’S SHELTER.
7CHAPTER VI.—MY LADY OF MOODS.
25CHAPTER XXV.—THE ANGRY EAVESDROPPER.
8CHAPTER VII.—CHILDREN OF THE MIST.
26CHAPTER XXVI.—TRAPPED.
9CHAPTER VIII.—THE BALE-FIRES ON THE BENS.
27CHAPTER XXVII.—A TAVERN IN THE WILDS.
10CHAPTER IX.—INVASION.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.—LOST ON THIS MOOR OF KANNOCH.
11CHAPTER X.—THE FLIGHT TO THE FOREST.
29CHAPTER XXIX.—THE RETURN.
12CHAPTER XI.—ON BENS OF WAR.
30CHAPTER XXX.—ARGILE’S BEDROOM.
13CHAPTER XIII.—WHERE TREADS THE DEER.
31CHAPTER XXXI.—MISTRESS BETTY.
14CHAPTER XIV.—MY LADY AND THE CHILD.
32CHAPTER XXXII.—A SCANDAL AND A QUARREL.
15CHAPTER XV.—CONFESSIONS OF A MARQUIS.
33CHAPTER XXXIII.—THE BROKEN SWORD.
16CHAPTER XVI.—OUR MARCH FOR LOCHABER.
34CHAPTER XXXIV.—LOVE IN THE WOODS.
17CHAPTER XVII.—IN THE LAND OF LORN.
35CHAPTER XXXV.—FAREWELL.
18CHAPTER XVIII.—BARD OF KEPPOCH.
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