Winter Evening Tales
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A narrow street with dreadful "wynds" and "vennels" running back from it was the High street of Glasgow at the time my story opens. And yet, though dirty, noisy and overcrowded with sin and suffering, a flavor of old time royalty and romance lingered amid its vulgar surroundings; and midway of its squalid length a quaint brown frontage kept behind it noble halls of learning, and pleasant old courts full of the "air of still delightful studies." From this building came out two young men in academic costume. One of them set his face dourly against the clammy fog and drizzling rain, breathing it ...
Chapters (27)
- E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Louise Pryor, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)
- WINTER EVENING TALES.
- 1896
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- CASH.
- Part I.
- Part II.
- FRANZ MÜLLER'S WIFE.
- THE VOICE AT MIDNIGHT.
- SIX, AND HALF-A-DOZEN.
- THE STORY OF DAVID MORRISON.
- TOM DUFFAN'S DAUGHTER.
- THE HARVEST OF THE WIND.
- Chapter I.
- Chapter II.
- THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF PRESTON.
- MARGARET SINCLAIR'S SILENT MONEY.
- JUST WHAT HE DESERVED.
- Chapter II.
- AN ONLY OFFER.
- TWO FAIR DECEIVERS.
- THE TWO MR. SMITHS.
- THE STORY OF MARY NEIL.
- THE HEIRESS OF KURSTON CHACE.
- "ONLY THIS ONCE."
- PETRALTO'S LOVE STORY.
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