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The Marquis of Lossie

George MacDonald

The story is centered around Malcolm Colonsay, a complex character who is revealed to be the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Lossie.

"The Marquis of Lossie" by George MacDonald is a novel. The story is centered around Malcolm Colonsay, a complex character who is revealed to be the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Lossie.

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It was one of those exquisite days that come in every winter, in which it seems no longer the dead body, but the lovely ghost of summer. Such a day bears to its sister of the happier time something of the relation the marble statue bears to the living form; the sense it awakes of beauty is more abstract, more ethereal; it lifts the soul into a higher region than will summer day of lordliest splendour. It is like the love that loss has purified.

Such, however, were not the thoughts that at the moment occupied the mind of Malcolm Colonsay. Indeed, the loveliness of the morning was but partially visible from the spot where he stood—the stable-yard of Lossie House, ancient and roughly paved. It was a hundred years since the stones had been last relaid and levelled: none of the horses of the late Marquis minded it but one—her whom the young man in Highland dress was now grooming—and she would have fidgeted had it been an oak floor. The yard was a long and wide space, with two-storied buildings on all sides of it. In the centre of one of them rose the clock, and the morning sun shone red on its tarnished gold. It was an ancient clock, but still capable of keeping good time—good enough, at least, for all the requirements of the house, even when the family was at home, seeing it never stopped, and the church clock was always ordered by it.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I.the Stable-Yard.
  2. 02Chapter Ii.the Library.
  3. 03Chapter Iii.miss Horn
  4. 04Chapter Iv.kelpie’s Airing.
  5. 05Chapter V.lizzy Findlay.
  6. 06Chapter Vi.mr Crathie.
  7. 07Chapter Vii.blue Peter.
  8. 08Chapter Viii.voyage to London.
  9. 09Chapter Ix.london Streets.
  10. 10Chapter X.the Tempest.
  11. 11Chapter Xi.demon and the Pipes.
  12. 12Chapter Xii.a New Livery.
  13. 13Chapter Xiii.two Conversations.
  14. 14Chapter Xiv.florimel.
  15. 15Chapter Xv.portlossie.
  16. 16Chapter Xvi.st James the Apostle.
  17. 17Chapter Xvii.a Difference.
  18. 18Chapter Xviii.lord Liftore.
  19. 19Chapter Xix.kelpie in London.
  20. 20Chapter Xx.blue Peter.
  21. 21Chapter Xxi.mr Graham.
  22. 22Chapter Xxii.richmond Park.
  23. 23Chapter Xxiii.painter and Groom.
  24. 24Chapter Xxiv.a Lady.
  25. 25Chapter Xxv.the Psyche.
  26. 26Chapter Xxvi.the Schoolmaster.
  27. 27Chapter Xxvii.the Preacher.
  28. 28Chapter Xxviii.the Portrait.
  29. 29Chapter Xxix.an Evil Omen.
  30. 30Chapter Xxx.a Quarrel.
  31. 31Chapter Xxxi.the Two Daimons.
  32. 32Chapter Xxxii.a Chastisement.
  33. 33Chapter Xxxiii.lies.
  34. 34Chapter Xxxiv.an Old Enemy.
  35. 35Chapter Xxxv.the Evil Genius.
  36. 36Chapter Xxxvi.conjunctions.
  37. 37Chapter Xxxvii.an Innocent Plot.
  38. 38Chapter Xxxviii.the Journey.
  39. 39Chapter Xxxix.discipline.
  40. 40Chapter Xl.moonlight.
  41. 41Chapter Xli.the Swift.
  42. 42Chapter Xlii.st Ronan’s Well.
  43. 43Chapter Xliii.a Perplexity.
  44. 44Chapter Xliv.the Mind of the Author.
  45. 45Chapter Xlv.the Ride Home.
  46. 46Chapter Xlvi.portland Place.
  47. 47Chapter Xlvii.portlossie and Scaurnose.
  48. 48Chapter Xlviii.torture.
  49. 49Chapter Xlix.the Philtre.
  50. 50Chapter L.the Demoness at Bay.
  51. 51Chapter Li.the Psyche.
  52. 52Chapter Lii.hope Chapel.
  53. 53Chapter Liii.a New Pupil.
  54. 54Chapter Liv.the Fey Factor.
  55. 55Chapter Lv.the Wanderer.
  56. 56Chapter Lvi.mid-Ocean.
  57. 57Chapter Lvii.the Shore.
  58. 58Chapter Lviii.the Trench.
  59. 59Chapter Lix.the Peacemaker.
  60. 60Chapter Lx.an Offering.

About this edition

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

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