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Malcolm

George MacDonald

The story is set in a small fishing village and unfolds around the central character, Malcolm, who navigates a world filled with unique personalities, such as Miss Horn and the Mad Laird, while dealing with themes of love, loss, and personal growth.

"Malcolm" by George MacDonald is a novel. The story is set in a small fishing village and unfolds around the central character, Malcolm, who navigates a world filled with unique personalities, such as Miss Horn and the Mad Laird, while dealing with themes of love, loss, and personal growth.

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“Na, na; I hae nae feelin’s, I’m thankfu’ to say. I never kent ony guid come o’ them. They’re a terrible sicht i’ the gait.”

“Naebody ever thoucht o’ layin’ ’t to yer chairge, mem.”

“’Deed, I aye had eneuch adu to du the thing I had to du, no to say the thing ’at naebody wad du but mysel’. I hae had nae leisur’ for feelin’s an’ that,” insisted Miss Horn.

But here a heavy step descending the stair just outside the room attracted her attention, and checking the flow of her speech perforce, with three ungainly strides she reached the landing.

“Watty Witherspail! Watty!” she called after the footsteps down the stair.

“Yes, mem,” answered a gruff voice from below.

“Watty, whan ye fess the bit boxie, jist pit a hemmer an’ a puckle nails i’ your pooch to men’ the hen-hoose-door. The tane maun be atten’t till as weel ’s the tither.”

“The bit boxie” was the coffin of her third cousin Griselda Campbell, whose body lay in the room on her left hand as she called down the stair. Into that on her right Miss Horn now re-entered, to rejoin Mrs Mellis, the wife of the principal draper in the town, who had called ostensibly to condole with her, but really to see the corpse.

“Aih! she was taen yoong!” sighed the visitor, with long-drawn tones and a shake of the head, implying that therein lay ground of complaint, at which poor mortals dared but hint.

“No that yoong,” returned Miss Horn. “She was upo’ the edge o’ aucht an’ thirty.”

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Miss Horn.
  2. 02Chapter II. Barbara Catanach.
  3. 03Chapter III. The Mad Laird.
  4. 04Chapter IV. Phemy Mair.
  5. 05Chapter V. Lady Florimel.
  6. 06Chapter VI. Duncan Macphail.
  7. 07Chapter VII. Alexander Graham.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Swivel.
  9. 09Chapter IX. The Salmon-Trout.
  10. 10Chapter X. The Funeral.
  11. 11Chapter XI. The Old Church.
  12. 12Chapter XII. The Churchyard.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. The Marquis of Lossie.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Meg Partan’s Lamp.
  15. 15Chapter XV. The Slope of the Dune.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. The Storm.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. The Accusation.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Quarrel.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Duncan’s Pipes.
  20. 20Chapter XX. Advances.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Mediation.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Whence and Whither?
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Armageddon.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The Feast.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. The Night Watch.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. Not at Church.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Lord Gernon.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. A Fisher-Wedding.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Florimel and Duncan.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Revival.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Wandering Stars.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. The Skipper’s Chamber.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. The Library.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Milton, and the Bay Mare.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. Kirkbyres.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. The Blow.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. The Cutter.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. The Two Dogs.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Colonsay Castle.
  40. 40Chapter XL. The Deil’s Winnock.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. The Clouded Sapphires.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. Duncan’s Disclosure.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. The Wizard’s Chamber.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. The Hermit.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. Mr Cairns and the Marquis.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. The Baillies’ Barn.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. Mrs Stewart’s Claim.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. The Baillies’ Barn Again.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. Mount Pisgah.
  50. 50Chapter L. Lizzy Findlay.
  51. 51Chapter LI. The Laird’s Burrow.
  52. 52Chapter LII. Cream or Scum?
  53. 53Chapter LIII. The Schoolmaster’s Cottage.
  54. 54Chapter LIV. One Day.
  55. 55Chapter LV. The Same Night.
  56. 56Chapter LVI. Something Forgotten.
  57. 57Chapter LVII. The Laird’s Quest.
  58. 58Chapter LVIII. Malcolm and Mrs Stewart.
  59. 59Chapter LIX. An Honest Plot.
  60. 60Chapter LX. The Sacrament.

About this edition

Author
George MacDonald
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
586 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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