St. Ronan's Well. Walter Scott

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СКАЧАТЬ CHAPTER I.

       THEATRICALS.

       CHAPTER II.

       PERPLEXITIES.

       CHAPTER III.

       EXPOSTULATION.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE PROPOSAL.

       CHAPTER V.

       PRIVATE INFORMATION.

       CHAPTER VI.

       EXPLANATORY.

       CHAPTER VII.

       LETTER CONTINUED.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THE REPLY.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE FRIGHT.

       CHAPTER X.

       MEDIATION.

       CHAPTER XI.

       INTRUSION.

       CHAPTER XII.

       DISCUSSION.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       A DEATH-BED.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       DISAPPOINTMENT.

       CHAPTER XV.

       A TEA-PARTY.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       DEBATE.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       A RELATIVE.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       THE WANDERER.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       THE CATASTROPHE.

       CHAPTER XX.

       CONCLUSION.

       AUTHOR'S NOTES.

       Note I., p. 202.

       Note II., p. 213.

       Note III., p. 318.

       EDITOR'S NOTES.

       APPENDIX.

       GLOSSARY.

INTRODUCTION

       TO

       ST. RONAN'S WELL.

       Table of Contents

      The novel which follows is upon a plan different from any other that the author has ever written, although it is perhaps the most legitimate which relates to this kind of light literature.

      It is intended, in a word—celebrare domestica facta—to give an imitation of the shifting manners of our own time, and paint scenes, the originals of which are daily passing round us, so that a minute's observation may compare the copies with the originals. It must be confessed that this style of composition was adopted by the author rather from the tempting circumstance of its offering some novelty in his compositions, and avoiding worn-out characters СКАЧАТЬ