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Title: John Splendid
The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

Author: Neil Munro

Release Date: August 15, 2007 [EBook #22321]

Language: English

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JOHN SPLENDID

The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

By Neil Munro

William Blackwood And Sons

Edinburgh And London

MDCCCXCVIII

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CONTENTS: (Note: Chapter XII notation
skipped in the print copy.)

CHAPTER I.--FROM THE FOREIGN FIELD.

CHAPTER II.--GILLESBEG GRUAMACH.

CHAPTER III.--THE LADY ON THE STAIR.

CHAPTER IV.--A NIGHT ALARM.

CHAPTER V.--KIRK LAW.

CHAPTER VI.--MY LADY OF MOODS.

CHAPTER VII.--CHILDREN OF THE MIST.

CHAPTER VIII.--THE BALE-FIRES ON THE BENS.

CHAPTER IX.--INVASION.

CHAPTER X.--THE FLIGHT TO THE FOREST.

CHAPTER XI.--ON BENS OF WAR.

CHAPTER XIII.--WHERE TREADS THE DEER.

CHAPTER XIV.--MY LADY AND THE CHILD.

CHAPTER XV.--CONFESSIONS OF A MARQUIS.

CHAPTER XVI.--OUR MARCH FOR LOCHABER.

CHAPTER XVII.--IN THE LAND OF LORN.

CHAPTER XVIII.--BARD OF KEPPOCH.

CHAPTER XIX.--THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY.

CHAPTER XX.--INVERLOCHY.

CHAPTER XXI.--SEVEN BROKEN MEN.

CHAPTER XXII.--DAME DUBH.

CHAPTER XXIII.--THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE.

CHAPTER XXIV.--A NIGHT'S SHELTER.

CHAPTER XXV.--THE ANGRY EAVESDROPPER.

CHAPTER XXVI.--TRAPPED.

CHAPTER XXVII.--A TAVERN IN THE WILDS.

CHAPTER XXVIII.--LOST ON THIS MOOR OF KANNOCH.

CHAPTER XXIX.--THE RETURN.

CHAPTER XXX.--ARGILE'S BEDROOM.

CHAPTER XXXI.--MISTRESS BETTY.

CHAPTER XXXII.--A SCANDAL AND A QUARREL.

CHAPTER XXXIII.--THE BROKEN SWORD.

CHAPTER XXXIV.--LOVE IN THE WOODS.

CHAPTER XXXV.--FAREWELL.

DEDICATION.

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 fa