Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson [the gingerbread man read aloud txt] 📗

very late of a dark night, and whom you were awakened out of your beds and brought down to the dining-hall to be presented to, by the name of Mr. Jamieson? Or has Alan forgotten what he did at Mr. Jamieson’s request⁠—a most disloyal act⁠—for which, by the letter of the law, he might be hanged⁠—no less than drinking the king’s health across the water? These were strange doings in a good Whig house! But Mr. Jamieson is a man privileged, and might set fire to my corn-barn; and the name they know him by now in France is the Chevalier Stewart.

As for Davie and Catriona, I shall watch you pretty close in the next days, and see if you are so bold as to be laughing at papa and mamma. It is true we were not so wise as we might have been, and made a great deal of sorrow out of nothing; but you will find as you grow up that even the artful Miss Barbara, and even the valiant Mr. Alan will be not so very much wiser than their parents. For the life of man upon this world of ours is a funny business. They talk of the angels weeping; but I think they must more often be holding their sides, as they look on; and there was one thing I determined to do when I began this long story, and that was to tell out everything as it befell.

Endnotes

Conspicuous. ↩

Country. ↩

The Fairies. ↩

Flatteries. ↩

Trust to. ↩

This must have reference to Dr. Cameron on his first visit.⁠—D. B. ↩

Sweethearts. ↩

Child. ↩

Palm. ↩

Gallows. ↩

My Catechism. ↩

Now Prince’s Street. ↩

A learned folklorist of my acquaintance hereby identifies Alan’s air. It has been printed (it seems) in Campbell’s Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II., p. 91. Upon examination it would really seem as if Miss Grant’s unrhymed doggrel (see chapter V) would fit with a little humouring to the notes in question. ↩

A ball placed upon a little mound for convenience of striking. ↩

Patched shoes. ↩

Shoemaker. ↩

Tamson’s mare, to go afoot. ↩

Beard. ↩

Ragged. ↩

Fine things. ↩

Catch. ↩

Victuals. ↩

Trust. ↩

Sea fog. ↩

Bashful. ↩

Rest. ↩

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Catriona
was published in 1893 by
Robert Louis Stevenson.

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