Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine
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CHAPTER II
A NIGHT OF STARS
On the night before Catherine Dennis’s
wedding the spangled sky spread, still and
cloudless, above Pencoed Chapel. The
plain squareness of the house of worship,
and the treeless stretch surrounding it and
Mrs. Job’s cottage hard by, looked all the
plainer for the white points of light that
burned in remote solemnity over the
mountain. The building, but for the one
insignificant dwelling, was, as it were, the
solitary feature in a bare world; and the
starlight on the grey walls gave them an
even greater austerity than they had by
day.
In the moonless night the gravestones
37
A NIGHT OF STARS
On the night before Catherine Dennis’s
wedding the spangled sky spread, still and
cloudless, above Pencoed Chapel. The
plain squareness of the house of worship,
and the treeless stretch surrounding it and
Mrs. Job’s cottage hard by, looked all the
plainer for the white points of light that
burned in remote solemnity over the
mountain. The building, but for the one
insignificant dwelling, was, as it were, the
solitary feature in a bare world; and the
starlight on the grey walls gave them an
even greater austerity than they had by
day.
In the moonless night the gravestones
37
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine > (41) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129098994 |
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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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