Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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There was a sepulchral tone in the voice and well there might be for it was a voice from the grave. Floating on the damp autumnal air and echoing round the forest of tombs it died away over the moors on the edge of which the old God’s-acre stood.
Chapters (30)(click to expand)
- LANCASHIRE IDYLLS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- I. MR. PENROSE'S NEW PARISH.
- I. A MOORLAND MACHPELAH.
- II. A CHILD OF THE HEATHER.
- III. OWD ENOCH'S FLUTE.
- II. THE MONEY-LENDER.
- I. THE UTTERMOST FARTHING.
- II. THE REDEMPTION OF MOSES FLETCHER.
- III. THE ATONEMENT OF MOSES FLETCHER.
- III. AMANDA STOTT.
- I. HOME.
- II. LIGHT AT EVENTIDE.
- III. THE COURT OF SOULS.
- IV. THE OLD PASTOR.
- IV. SAVED AS BY FIRE
- V. WINTER SKETCHES.
- I. THE CANDLE OF THE LORD.
- II. THE TWO MOTHERS.
- III. THE SNOW CRADLE.
- VI. MIRIAM'S MOTHERHOOD.
- I. A WOMAN'S SECRET.
- II. HOW DEBORAH HEARD THE NEWS.
- III. ‘IT'S A LAD!’
- IV. THE LEAD OF THE LITTLE ONE.
- VII. HOW MALACHI O' TH' MOUNT WON HIS WIFE.
- VIII. MR. PENROSE BRINGS HOME A BRIDE.
- THE END.
- [Transcribed from an edition by] BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
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