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.
2CHAPTER I.—FROM THE FOREIGN FIELD.
3CHAPTER II.—GILLESBEG GRUAMACH.
4CHAPTER III.—THE LADY ON THE STAIR.
5CHAPTER IV.—A NIGHT ALARM.
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6CHAPTER V.—KIRK LAW.
7CHAPTER VI.—MY LADY OF MOODS.
8CHAPTER VII.—CHILDREN OF THE MIST.
9CHAPTER VIII.—THE BALE-FIRES ON THE BENS.
10CHAPTER IX.—INVASION.
11CHAPTER X.—THE FLIGHT TO THE FOREST.
12CHAPTER XI.—ON BENS OF WAR.
13CHAPTER XIII.—WHERE TREADS THE DEER.
14CHAPTER XIV.—MY LADY AND THE CHILD.
15CHAPTER XV.—CONFESSIONS OF A MARQUIS.
16CHAPTER XVI.—OUR MARCH FOR LOCHABER.
17CHAPTER XVII.—IN THE LAND OF LORN.
18CHAPTER XVIII.—BARD OF KEPPOCH.
19CHAPTER XIX.—THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY.
20CHAPTER XX.—INVERLOCHY.
21CHAPTER XXI.—SEVEN BROKEN MEN.
22CHAPTER XXII.—DAME DUBH.
23CHAPTER XXIII.—THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE.
24CHAPTER XXIV.—A NIGHT’S SHELTER.
25CHAPTER XXV.—THE ANGRY EAVESDROPPER.
26CHAPTER XXVI.—TRAPPED.
27CHAPTER XXVII.—A TAVERN IN THE WILDS.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.—LOST ON THIS MOOR OF KANNOCH.
29CHAPTER XXIX.—THE RETURN.
30CHAPTER XXX.—ARGILE’S BEDROOM.
31CHAPTER XXXI.—MISTRESS BETTY.
32CHAPTER XXXII.—A SCANDAL AND A QUARREL.
33CHAPTER XXXIII.—THE BROKEN SWORD.
34CHAPTER XXXIV.—LOVE IN THE WOODS.
35CHAPTER XXXV.—FAREWELL.
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