Barbara Lynn: A Tale of the Dales and Fells.
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Barbara Lynn looked up the dale. Thundergay glimmered through the green twilight with his hoary head under the Pole star, and his feet in the wan waters of a tarn. His breath was the North wind. Barbara put up the shutters and turned to an old woman, who was propped against the pillows of a four-post bed. It stood in the full light of a turf fire, and looked like a ship with its sails furled. The Potter had made the new vessel after the pattern of the old, but the spirit of life which each held was different. The girl and her great-grandmother had the same wide brows, the same well-chiseled no...
Chapters (67)
- BARBARA LYNN
- A TALE OF THE DALES AND FELLS
- AUTHOR OF "SILVERWOOL," "THE SOUL OF UNREST."
- CONTENTS
- PART I
- PART II
- BARBARA LYNN
- PART I
- CHAPTER I
- The Lonely Steading in the Dale
- CHAPTER II
- The Sisters
- CHAPTER III
- Peter Fleming
- CHAPTER IV
- The Shield of Achilles
- CHAPTER V
- The Waking of the Holy Well
- CHAPTER VI
- Joel's Darkness
- CHAPTER VII
- Midnight
- CHAPTER VIII
- Joel Goes Away
- CHAPTER IX
- Peter at Oxford
- CHAPTER X
- Ketel's Parlour
- CHAPTER XI
- The Back End
- CHAPTER XII
- Six White Horses and a Coach
- CHAPTER XIII
- Joel takes the Long Trail
- PART II
- CHAPTER XIV
- Barbara and Peter
- CHAPTER XV
- Morning at the Shepherds' Meet
- CHAPTER XVI
- Joel Returns to the Dale
- CHAPTER XVII
- The Wrestling Match
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- The Shepherd's Rest
- CHAPTER XX
- The Spell of Thundergay
- CHAPTER XXI
- The Call
- CHAPTER XXII
- The Tryst at Girdlestone Pass
- CHAPTER XXIII
- A Pathway of Fire
- CHAPTER XXIV
- Winter
- CHAPTER XXV
- Barbara counts the Gold
- EPILOGUE
- The End
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