A DAUGHTER OF RAASAY A TALE OF THE '45
By WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE
Illustrated by STUART TRAVIS
NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
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Copyright, 1901, by Frank Leslie Publishing House
Copyright, 1902, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
Published in October, 1902
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[Illustration: AILEEN]
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TO MR. ELLERY SEDGWICK
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. The Sport of Chance 1 II A Cry in the Night 19 III Deoch Slaint an Righ! 39 IV Of Love and War 60 V The Hue and Cry 79 VI In The Matter of a Kiss 99 VII My Lady Rages 116 VIII Charles Edward Stuart 133 IX Blue Bonnets are Over the Border 151 X Culloden 159 XI The Red Heather Hills 180 XII Volney Pays a Debt 202 XIII The Little God has an Innings 223 XIV The Aftermath 231 XV A Reprieve! 251 XVI Volney's Guest 266 XVII The Valley of the Shadow 278 XVIII The Shadow Falls 297 The Afterword 309
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THE LADIES OF ST. JAMES'S
The ladies of St. James's Go swinging to the play; Their footmen run before them With a "Stand by! Clear the way!" But Phyllida, my Phyllida! She takes her buckled shoon. When we go out a-courting Beneath the harvest moon.
The ladies of St. James's! They are so fine and fair, You'd think a box of essences Was broken in the air: But Phyllida, my Phyllida! The breath of heath and furze When breezes blow at morning, Is not so fresh as hers.
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white it stays forever, Their red it never dies: But Phyllida, my Phyllida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers like a rose.
The ladies of St. James's! You scarce can understand The half of all their speeches, Their phrases are so grand: But Phyllida, my Phyllida! Her shy and simple words Are clear as after raindrops The music of the birds.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Daughter of Raasay by William MacLeod Raine
- 2: I heard Major Wolfe whisper to Lord Balmerino
- 3: As even Sir Robert Volney may find out
- 4: The choicest blackleg in England
- 5: Lord Balmerino gave me a chance
- 6: He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar
- 7: You had a stake in the country then
- 8: The slogan echoed and reechoed through the silent streets
- 9: The Stuarts may have been weak
- 10: I tossed aside my cloak and stooped to help him
- 11: Some one was coming down round the bend of the stairway
- 12: He left me with Hamish Gorm in lodgings
- 13: And then the door opened to let in Volney
- 14: Take my advice and out Garrick Garrick
- 15: And the lady we have just left
- 16: I knew Volney well enough for that
- 17: I surmised that Balmerino stood sponsor for me
- 18: Balmerino introduced him as Captain Donald Roy Macdonald
- 19: Then Lord Balmerino interrupted
- 20: I'm here by invitation of Lord Balmerino
- 21: It is sixty years since the Stuarts were driven out
- 22: Anthony Creagh was good enough to say
- 23: But how are we to know you are not again meestaken
- 24: The friendship of Balmerino and Captain Macdonald
- 25: Cried Creagh in his rollicking way
- 26: Presently rug headed Hamish Gorm entered
- 27: Said Volney as easy as you please
- 28: Here is a piece of good turf under the moonlight
- 29: Iss there no other way whatever
- 30: And parried by sheer luck his brilliant lunges
- 31: The high guard is the one fault Well parried
- 32: And Volney sat looking at us with an ironic smile
- 33: Aileen treated the baronet with such shy gentle womanliness
- 34: Long ago Donald had established his relationship with Aileen
- 35: Though Creagh had come to warn me of Volney's latest move
- 36: Tony Creagh was the best companion in the world
- 37: Also at Duprez's for the butifull little hat I ordered
- 38: I slid from the horse and kissed Cloe
- 39: Where Aileen and Charles were arranging fishing tackle
- 40: Mistress Antoinette Westerleigh
- 41: If you think Volney finished him
- 42: This Northern icicle was not to be melted
- 43: Aileen stood by my side like a queen cut out of marble
- 44: Your note And to philander
- 45: There was a challenge in her manner
- 46: The tie that bound me to Aileen was indefinable
- 47: A low voice from the arbour called Kenn
- 48: Montagu mistakes this for the room of Mistress Westerleigh
- 49: There lived in Edinburgh an unmarried aunt of Aileen
- 50: He broke off to hum 'Now Johnnie
- 51: But you hae played the cuddie brawly
- 52: Miss MacBean invited Creagh and me to join them in dinner
- 53: Whom Major Macleod had put at my service
- 54: We'll owre the water and owre the sea
- 55: And Volney smilingly negatived her appeal
- 56: Three hundred Macleod claymores bar the way
- 57: Despised by all and most of all by Kenneth Montagu
- 58: We'll on an' we'll march to Carlisle Ha'
- 59: Volney bowed himself out of the room
- 60: Aileen was sewing on a white satin cockade
- 61: At the head of each clan regiment rode its chief
- 62: Defeated the army of the Duke of Cumberland
- 63: Who had with him at the time the Stewarts of Appin
- 64: MacEuan of the seeing eyes had predicted disaster
- 65: Scarce a dozen clansmen reached the second line of regulars
- 66: Macdonald recognized him as Charles Fraser
- 67: The trooper presented his piece at the Fraser
- 68: He and Donald Roy are far ben intimate
- 69: CHAPTER XITHE RED HEATHER HILLS A sullen day
- 70: Creagh flung out his answer with an insolent laugh
- 71: Creagh muttered something about the peat smoke affecting his
- 72: With the exception of Clanranald
- 73: The Prince hung close to the heels of Malcolm
- 74: The red cock will aiblins craw at Raasay for this
- 75: Does the sun never shine in Raasay
- 76: But the point of her wit touched Creagh on the riposte
- 77: There iss no other woman for you
- 78: And Murdoch gave the call of the whaup to signal Donald Roy
- 79: There was one thing about Volney I could never enough admire
- 80: I am a fery good servant of the King
- 81: Then turned on Volney a very grim face
- 82: Tender pity and love suffused me
- 83: They are perhaps a blend some pique
- 84: But I think you remarked that the Dutchman was obstinate
- 85: In it he sailed for the mainland with Ronald and Murdoch
- 86: He was extraordinarily loath to let Aileen peril herself
- 87: Softly her breath came and went
- 88: The Duke has a partiality for fine bed linen
- 89: Deaf to her indirect little appeals for friendliness
- 90: She sacrificed me for a raspberry tart
- 91: Your dreamer might be the envy of kings
- 92: Before we parted Aileen had one more word for me
- 93: And from the stairway some three steps up Aileen
- 94: You say you are Sir Robert Volney
- 95: Is Arthur Lord Balmerino guilty of High Treason
- 96: For I heard Balmerino bark out
- 97: In the group I recognized Antoinette Westerleigh
- 98: Creagh slewed round his head and threw up his free hand
- 99: A murmur which broke frankly into applause when Aileen
- 100: Creagh laughed hardily and vaulted into the sledge
- 101: If life were not what the boy Robert Volney had conceived it
- 102: Volney poured him wine and he drank
- 103: Volney clapped his hands softly
- 104: Continued the Macdonald triumphantly
- 105: Watkins is a faithful fellow and devoted to me
- 106: Here are you torn with illness
- 107: But an obstinacy not to be browbeat
- 108: ' returns Woodward just before he faints
- 109: Just arrived from the executions of Balmerino and Kilmarnock
- 110: The sturdy loyalty of you Jacobites
- 111: A poignant grief o'erflowed in me
- 112: We'll maybe return to Lochabar no more
- 113: Craven's evil glance followed Volney
- 114: After Sir Robert Volney has pursued her a year
- 115: Volney turned on his heel and beckoned to Beauclerc
- 116: Volney fell back on the pillows
- 117: Aileen and I moved to our appointed home at once