Category: Novels
Black night lay over sea and land; there was a low continuous murmur round the rocks and shores; and out here, at the end of the little wooden quay, two men were slowly pacing up and down in the dark. They were the serious-visaged Coinneach Breac and his taller and younger com...
Black night lay over sea and land; there was a low continuous murmur round the rocks and shores; and out here, at the end of the little wooden quay, two men were slowly pacing u...
7. CHAPTER VII.The night was dark and yet clear; the sea still; not a whisper stirred in the birch-woods nor along the shores; the small red points of fire, that told of the distant village, b...
6. CHAPTER VI.Mary rose quickly, her clear eyes showing such obvious pleasure that Kaethchen was inclined to be indignant. 'Mamie, have you no pride!' Kaethchen said in her heart. 'It is not...
5. CHAPTER V.It soon became sufficiently evident that it was not solely for fishing and shooting that Mr. Frank Meredyth had come to Loch-garra; keepers, gillies, dogs, guns, fly-books occup...
8. CHAPTER VIII.But at first the two young men--especially when they were in the society of the young women--professed to make light of the threatened invasion. What harm could come of allowing...
4. CHAPTER IV."It will be all different now," said Kaethchen, one evening, when they were come to within a week of the arrival of Mary's brother and his friend Frank Meredyth. "And you deserv...
2. CHAPTER II.But wonders will never cease. It was a couple of days after these occurrences, and Mary Stanley and Kate Glendinning were just about to sit down to lunch, when the Highland maid...
3. CHAPTER III.One morning Mary Stanley and her companion had been away on some distant errand, and when on their return they came to the summit of the hill overlooking the bay, Mary paused fo...