Heather And Snow
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HEATHER AND SNOW - 1893 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I CHAPTER I1 MOTHER AN D SON, . CHAPTER I11 AT THE FOOT OF THE HORN, . CHAPTER IV DOG-STEENIE . , CHAPTER V COLONE A L IV D SERGEANT . , . CHAPTER V1 MAN-STEENIE . . CHAPTER V11 CORBYKNOW . E , CHAPTER VIII DAVID AX D HIS DAUGHTER, CHAPTER IX AT CASTLWE EELSET, CHAPTER X DAVID A ND FRANCIS, ... 111 PAGE . I CONTENTS CHAPTER XI CIIAPTER S I I I A VISIT F...
MoreHEATHER AND SNOW - 1893 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I CHAPTER I1 MOTHER AN D SON, . CHAPTER I11 AT THE FOOT OF THE HORN, . CHAPTER IV DOG-STEENIE . , CHAPTER V COLONE A L IV D SERGEANT . , . CHAPTER V1 MAN-STEENIE . . CHAPTER V11 CORBYKNOW . E , CHAPTER VIII DAVID AX D HIS DAUGHTER, CHAPTER IX AT CASTLWE EELSET, CHAPTER X DAVID A ND FRANCIS, ... 111 PAGE . I CONTENTS CHAPTER XI CIIAPTER S I I I A VISIT FROM FRAXC G I O S R DOS, CFIAPTER XIV STEESIES I-IOCSE, . CIIXPTEK XV PIIE ICYR AIG, . CH- PTER S-I SHAII LOVE, . CIIAPTER XVII A KOVEL ACDL-CTIOS, CHAPTER SVIII PIIELIYSC HA IPIOS . , CHAPTER XIX FRASCI G S ORDOSSC HAJIPIOS, . PAGE - 69 CI-IAPTER XSIII T rr S T ORMA CAIS, , CONTENTS CIIAPTER XSIV PACE How I IRST F Y A RED, . 134 CIIAPTER XSV I IRSTYDSR EAM. . . ISG CIIAPTER XSVI Hon7 DAVID F ARED, . . rgr CHAPTER SXVII How RIARIONF ARED, 194 CHAPTER XXVIII I CSBAX A D KD I F E , 197 CHAPTER XSIX DAVID, IARIOXI, IRSTY, AND WHAT WAS LEFT OF STEESIE, . . 202 CIIAPTER XXS FROM SN OW T O FIRE, . . 207 CI1APTER XXXI I IRSTSYH OWSR ESESTJIEST, . . 213 CHAPTER XXXIII A RACE IVITII DEATII, . . 219 CHAPTER XXXIV 9 BACK FROM THE GRAVE, . . 224 CHAPTER XSXV FRASC C IS O NES T O III ISELF, . . 229 CHAPTER XXXVI KIRSTY BESTIRS HERSELF, . . 233 CONTENTS CI-IAPTER XSSVII CHAPTER XSSVIII TIIE A-EIGHBORS, CI-IAPTER XSSIX KIRSTYG IVESA DVICE, . CHAPTER XI, MRS. GORDOX. . CHAPTER XL11 THE LAIRD A XD IIIS IOTIIER . , CHAPTER XLIII THE COROSATIOS, . CHAPTER XLIV KIRSTYST OCHER, . CHAPTER XLV KIRSTYS S OKG, PAGE . 2-43 HEATHER AND SNOW CHAPTER I - A RUNAWAY RACE UPON neighboring stones, earth-fast, like two islands of an archipelago, in an ocean of heather, sat a boy and a girl, the girl knitting, or, as she would have called it, wea-Jilzg a stocking, and the boy, his eyes fixedon her face, talking with an animation that amounted almost to excitement. He had great fluency, and could have talked just as fast in good English as in the dialect in which he was now pouring out his ambitions-the broad Saxon of Aberdeen. He was giving the girl to . understand that he meant to be a soldier like his father, and quite as good a one as he. But so little did he know himself or the world, that, with-small genuine impulse to action, and moved chiefly by the anticipated results of it, he saw success already his, and a grateful country at his feet. His inspiration was so purely ambition, that, even if, his mood unchanged, he were. to achieve much for his country, she could hardly owe him gratitude. Ill no hae the warl lichtly make ZQht of me he said Mebbe the warl winna tribble itsel aboot ye sae muckle as een to lichtly ye returned his companion quietly. Ye do naething ither retorted the boy, rising and looking down on her in displeasure. What for are ye aye girdin at me A body canna lat his thouchts gang, but yere doon upo them, like doos up0 corn I wadna be girdin at ye, Francie, but that I care ower muckle aboot ye to lat ye think I haud the sarne opingon o ye at ye hae o yersel, answered the girl, who went on with her knitting as she spoke. Yell never believe a body he rejoined, and turned half away. I canna think what gars me keep comin to see ye Ye haena ae guid word to gie a body L Its nane ye S get frae me, the gait yere gaein, Francie Ye think a heap ower muckle o yersel. What ye expec, may some day a come true, but ye hae gien ilobody a richt to expec it alang wi ye, and I canna think, gien ye war fair to yersel, ye wad coont yersel ane it was to be expeckit o I tauld ye sae, Kirsty Ye never lay ony weicht upo what a body says That depens upo the body...
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