Nine. The Woman Considered in Absence—Adventures of a Military Cloak
Chapter Ten. First Sermon Against Women
Chapter Eleven. Tells in a Whisper of Man’s Fall During the Curling Season
Chapter Twelve. Tragedy of a Mud House
Chapter Thirteen. Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman
Chapter Fourteen. The Minister Dances to the Woman’s Piping
Chapter Fifteen. The Minister Bewitched—Second Sermon Against Women
Chapter Sixteen. Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman
Chapter Seventeen. Intrusion of Haggart Into These Pages Against the Author’s Wish
Chapter Eighteen. Caddam—Love Leading to a Rupture
Chapter Nineteen. Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women
Chapter Twenty. End of the State of Indecision
Chapter Twenty-One. Night—Margaret—Flashing of a Lantern
Chapter Twenty-Three. Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter
Chapter Twenty-Four. The New World, and the Woman Who May Not Dwell Therein
Chapter Twenty-Five. Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours
Chapter Twenty-Six. Scene at the Spittal
Chapter Twenty-Seven. First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours
Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Hill Before Darkness Fell—Scene of the Impending Catastrophe
Chapter Twenty-Nine. Story of the Egyptian
Chapter Thirty. The Meeting for Rain
Chapter Thirty-One. Various Bodies Converging on the Hill
Chapter Thirty-Two. Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage
Chapter Thirty-Three. While the Ten O’clock Bell was Ringing
Chapter Thirty-Four. The Great Rain
Chapter Thirty-Five. The Glen at Break of Day
Chapter Thirty-Six. Story of the Dominie
Chapter Thirty-Seven. Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours
Chapter Thirty-Eight. Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours—Defence of the Manse
Chapter Thirty-Nine. How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth
Chapter Forty. Babbie and Margaret—Defence of the Manse Continued
Chapter Forty-One. Rintoul and Babbie—Breakdown of the Defence of the Manse
Chapter Forty-Two. Margaret, the Precentor, and God Between
Chapter Forty-Three. Rain—Mist—The Jaws
Chapter Forty-Four. End of the Twenty-Four Hours
Chapter Forty-Five. Talk of a Little Maid Since Grown Tall
“I’LL GI’E YOU MY RABBIT,” MICAH SAID, “IF YOU’LL GANG AWA’.”
Chapter One.
The Love-Light
Long ago, in the days when our caged blackbirds never saw a king’s soldier without whistling impudently, “Come ower the water to Charlie,” a minister of Thrums was to be married, but something happened, and he remained a bachelor. Then, when he was old, he passed in our square the lady who was to have been his wife, and her hair was white, but she, too, was still unmarried. The meeting had only one witness, a weaver, and he said solemnly afterwards, “They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een.” No more is remembered of these two, no being now living ever saw them, but the poetry that was in the soul of a battered weaver makes them human to us for ever.
It is of another minister I am to
