Author of “Anne’s House of Dreams,” “Rainbow Valley,"
“Rilla of Ingleside,” etc.
Transcriber’s Note:
This book has been put on-line as part of the BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative at the Celebration of Women Writers through the combined work of Elizabeth Morton and Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Reformatted by Ben Crowder
TO MY COUSIN
Beatrice A. McIntyre
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
“Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace,
But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny’s face;
As still was her look, and as still was her ee,
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea,
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea.
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Such beauty bard may never declare,
For there was no pride nor passion there;
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Her seymar was the lily flower,
And her cheek the moss-rose in the shower;
And her voice like the distant melodye
That floats along the twilight sea.”
— The Queen’s Wake JAMES HOGG
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH
CHAPTER II. A LETTER OF DESTINY
CHAPTER III. THE MASTER OF LINDSAY SCHOOL
CHAPTER IV. A TEA TABLE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER V. A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF KILMENY
CHAPTER VII. A ROSE OF WOMANHOOD
CHAPTER VIII. AT THE GATE OF EDEN
CHAPTER IX. THE STRAIGHT SIMPLICITY OF EVE
CHAPTER X. A TROUBLING OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER XI. A LOVER AND HIS LASS
CHAPTER XII. A PRISONER OF LOVE
CHAPTER XIII. A SWEETER WOMAN NE’ER DREW BREATH
CHAPTER XIV. IN HER SELFLESS MOOD
CHAPTER XV. AN OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR-OFF THING
CHAPTER XVI. DAVID BAKER’S OPINION
CHAPTER XVII. A BROKEN FETTER
CHAPTER XVIII. NEIL GORDON SOLVES HIS OWN PROBLEM
CHAPTER XIX. VICTOR FROM VANQUISHED ISSUES
KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD
