Neil Munro
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664598691
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I—WHEN THE GEAN-TREE BLOSSOMED
CHAPTER VII—THE MAN ON THE QUAY
CHAPTER VIII—THE SHERIFF’S SUPPER PARTY
CHAPTER X—ON HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE
CHAPTER XI—THE SOUND OF THE DRUM
CHAPTER XIV—THE CORNAL’S LOVE STORY
CHAPTER XV—ON BOARD THE “JEAN”
CHAPTER XVI—THE DESPERATE BATTLE
CHAPTER XXI—THE SORROWFUL SEASON
CHAPTER XXVI—AGAIN IN THE GARDEN
CHAPTER XXVIII—GILIAN’S OPPORTUNITY
CHAPTER XXXII—AN OLD MAID’S SECRET
GILIAN THE DREAMER
PART I
CHAPTER I—WHEN THE GEAN-TREE BLOSSOMED
Rain was beating on the open leaf of plane and beech, and rapping at the black doors of the ash-bud, and the scent of the gean-tree flourish hung round the road by the river, vague, sweet, haunting, like a recollection of the magic and forgotten gardens of youth. Over the high and numerous hills, mountains of deer and antique forest, went the mist, a slattern, trailing a ragged gown. The river sucked below the banks and clamoured on the cascades, drawn unwillingly to the sea, the old gluttonous sea that must ever be robbing the glens of their gathered waters. And the birds were at their loving, or the building of their homes, flying among the bushes, trolling upon the bough. One with an eye, as the saying goes, could scarcely pass among this travail of the new year without some pleasure in the spectacle, though the rain might drench him to the skin. He could not but joy in the thrusting crook of the fern and bracken; what sort of heart was his if it did not lift and swell to see the new fresh green blown upon the grey parks, to see the hedges burst, the young firs of the Blaranbui prick