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Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance (Classic Reprint)
Weir of Hermiston An Unfinished Romance - Classic Reprint Author:Robert Louis Stevenson IN the wild end of a moorland parish, far out of the sight of any house, there stands a cairn among the heather, and a little by east of it, in the going down of the brae-side, a monument with some verses half defaced. It was here that Claverhouse shot with his own hand the Praying Weaver of Balweary, and the chisel of Old Mortality has clinked ... more »on that lonely gravestone. Public and domestic history have thus marked with a bloody finger this hollow among the hills; and since the Cameronian gave his life there, two hundred years ago, in a glorious folly, and without comprehension or regret, the silence of the moss has been broken once again by the report of firearms and the cry of the dying.
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CONTENTS; fACt; dedication * » ft Ill; introductor-y » 9 « 3; CHAP ; i life and death op mrs, weir 5; ii father and son 33; iii in the matter of the HAWING of ; duncan jopp 45; iv opinion of THE bench 74; v- winter on the moors ; 1 at hermtston 92; 2 KTRSTTE 99; 3 a border family » ? ? 105; vi a leaf from christina^ tsalm-book «37; vii enter mbphistopi1eles 18;; V1ÍT a nocturnal visit 27; ix at THfi weaver's stone 232; editorial note 243; glossary of scottish words 261
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