The Shoes of Fortune
by Neil Munro
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"It is an odd thing, chance—the one element to baffle the logician and make the scheming of the wisest look as foolish in the long run as the sandy citadel a child builds upon the shore without any thought of the incoming tide. A strange thing, chance; and but for chance I might this day be the sheriff of a shire, my head stuffed with the tangled phrase and sentiment of interlocutors, or maybe no more than an advocate overlooked, sitting in John's Coffeehouse in Edinburgh—a moody soured man with a jug of claret, and cursing the inconsistencies of preferment to office. I might have been that, o...
Chapters (89)(click to expand)
- THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
- Illustrated by A. S. Boyd
- THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
- CHAPTER I
- NARRATES HOW I CAME TO QUIT THE STUDY OF LATIN AND THE LIKE, AND TAKE TO HARD WORK IN A MOORLAND COUNTRY
- CHAPTER II
- MISS FORTUNE'S TRYST BY WATER OF EARN, AND HOW I MARRED THE SAME UNWITTINGLY
- CHAPTER III
- OF THE COMING OF UNCLE ANDREW WITH A SCARRED FOREHEAD AND A BRASS-BOUND CHEST, AND HOW I TOOK AN INFECTION
- CHAPTER IV
- I COME UPON THE RED SHOES
- CHAPTER V
- A SPOILED TRYST, AND OTHER THINGS THAT FOLLOWED ON THE OPENING OF THE CHEST
- CHAPTER VI
- MY DEED ON THE MOOR OF MEARNS
- CHAPTER VII
- QUENTIN GREIG LOSES A SON, AND I SET OUT WITH A HORSE AS ALL MY FORTUNE
- CHAPTER VIII
- I RIDE BY NIGHT ACROSS SCOTLAND, AND MEET A MARINER WITH A GLEED EYE
- CHAPTER IX
- WHEREIN THE “SEVEN SISTERS” ACTS STRANGELY, AND I SIT WAITING FOR THE MANACLES
- CHAPTER X
- THE STRUGGLE IN THE CABIN, AND AN EERIE SOUND OF RUNNING WATER
- CHAPTER XI
- THE SCUTTLED SHIP
- CHAPTER XII
- MAKES PLAIN THE DEEPEST VILLAINY OF RISK AND SETS ME ON A FRENCHMAN
- CHAPTER XIII
- WHEREIN APPEARS A GENTLEMANLY CORSAIR AND A FRENCH-IRISH LORD
- CHAPTER XIV
- IN DUNKERQUE—A LADY SPEAKS TO ME IN SCOTS AND A FAT PRIEST SEEMS TO HAVE SOMETHING ON HIS MIND
- CHAPTER XV
- WHEREIN A SITUATION OFFERS AND I ENGAGE TO GO TRAVELLING WITH THE PRIEST
- CHAPTER XVI
- RELATES HOW I INDULGED MY CURIOSITY AND HOW LITTLE CAME OF IT
- CHAPTER XVII
- WITNESSES THE LAST OF A BLATE YOUNG MAN
- CHAPTER XIX
- A RAP IN THE EARLY MORNING AWAKENS ME AND I START IN A GLASS COACH UPON THE ODDEST OF JOURNEYS
- CHAPTER XX
- LEADS ME TO THE FRONT OF A COFFEE-HOUSE WHERE I AM STARTLED TO SEE A FACE I KNOW
- CHAPTER XXI
- THE ATTEMPT ON THE PRINCE
- CHAPTER XXII
- OF A NIGHT JOURNEY AND BLACK BICETRE AT THE END OF IT
- CHAPTER XXIV
- PHILOSOPHY IN A FELON'S CELL
- CHAPTER XXV
- WE ATTEMPT AN ESCAPE
- CHAPTER XXVI
- A RIMEY NIGHT ON ROOF-TOPS, AND A NEW USE FOR AN OLD KIRK BELL
- CHAPTER XXVII
- WE ENTER PARIS AND FIND A SANCTUARY THERE
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- THE MAN WITH THE TARTAN WAISTCOAT
- CHAPTER XXIX
- WHEREIN THE PRIEST LEAVES ME, AND I MAKE AN INLAND VOYAGE
- CHAPTER XXX
- A GUID CONCEIT OF MYSELF LEADS ME FAR ASTRAY
- === MISSING PAGES (274-288) ===
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- THE BARD OF LOVE WHO WROTE WITH OLD MATERIALS
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- THE DUEL IN THE AUBERGE GARDEN
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- FAREWELL TO MISS WALKINSHAW
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- OF MY WINTER CAMPAIGN IN PRUSSIA, AND ANOTHER MEETING WITH MACKELLAR OF KILBRIDE
- CHAPTER XXXV
- BRINGS ME TO HELVOETSLUYS IN WINTER WEATHER
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- FATHER HAMILTON IS THREATENED BY THE JESUITS AND WE ARE FORCED TO FLY AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- I OVERHEAR THE PLAN OF BRITAIN'S INVASION
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- THUROT'S PRISONER. MY FRIEND THE WATCH
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- DISCLOSES THE MANNER OF MY ESCAPE AND HOW WE SET SAIL FOR ALBION
- CHAPTER XL
- MY INTERVIEW WITH PITT
- CHAPTER XLI
- TREATS OF FATHER HAMILTON'S DEATH
- CHAPTER XLII
- I DEPART IN THE MIDST OF ILLUMINATION AND COME TO A JAIL, BAD NEWS, AND AN OLD ENEMY
- CHAPTER XLIII
- BACK TO THE MOORLAND
- CHAPTER XLIV
- WHEREIN THE SHOES OF FORTUNE BRING ME HOME
- THE END
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