Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine
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28 IRRESOLUTE CATHERINE
you couldn’t be decent and modest like the
other women ? There were you in your
smock for all these gaping fellows to see—
good-for-nothing rascals like that Black
Heber sneaking there among the trees—
damn him ! I have no mind for my wife
to be a sight for the like of him ! ”
Catherine looked up at him with an
agonised face.
“ I was ashamed of you—that’s what I
was,” continued he, “ and I’ll have no more
of it! I tell you to be done with all these
common folk that can’t get baptized without
making a parade and a show of themselves.
I wonder that an honest old grandmother
like the woman beside you should let you
go out of the house like that.”
“ But my shawl came off,” protested
Catherine, who was now crying bitterly ;
“the water pulled it away from me.”
“ And where was your gown that should
have kept you decent ? ”
“I’ve only got one,” sobbed the girl,
you couldn’t be decent and modest like the
other women ? There were you in your
smock for all these gaping fellows to see—
good-for-nothing rascals like that Black
Heber sneaking there among the trees—
damn him ! I have no mind for my wife
to be a sight for the like of him ! ”
Catherine looked up at him with an
agonised face.
“ I was ashamed of you—that’s what I
was,” continued he, “ and I’ll have no more
of it! I tell you to be done with all these
common folk that can’t get baptized without
making a parade and a show of themselves.
I wonder that an honest old grandmother
like the woman beside you should let you
go out of the house like that.”
“ But my shawl came off,” protested
Catherine, who was now crying bitterly ;
“the water pulled it away from me.”
“ And where was your gown that should
have kept you decent ? ”
“I’ve only got one,” sobbed the girl,
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine > (32) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129098886 |
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| Description | By Violet Jacob. |
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| Shelfmark | U.32.f |
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| Description | Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print. Jacob had a deep appreciation of the Angus dialect and countryside, and this is evident in her celebrated Scots language poetry in volumes such as 'Song of Angus' (1915). |
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| Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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