Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine
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94 IRRESOLUTE CATHERINE
Susannah came from behind the tree, her
eyes shining.
“ Come with me—now—this minute ! ”
she cried. “ There’s no time to lose!
Another half hour and it’ll be too late.
He’s sure to come to the house as soon as
his business is done. I’d no notion he was
to be at the fair.”
“You might have guessed it,” said
Saunders roughly.
“ He told me, no more nor the night he
came with Catherine, that none o’ them
were to be down from the farm.”
They set out together without another
word. The sight of the shepherd had done
more to make up Charles’s mind than all
Susannah’s arguments and persuasions. She
had escaped so narrowly from being seen
by Heber in Charles’s company that she now
piloted her companion to the cottage
through the same quiet ways she had
traversed in the morning with her uncle.
She entered the house and disappeared
Susannah came from behind the tree, her
eyes shining.
“ Come with me—now—this minute ! ”
she cried. “ There’s no time to lose!
Another half hour and it’ll be too late.
He’s sure to come to the house as soon as
his business is done. I’d no notion he was
to be at the fair.”
“You might have guessed it,” said
Saunders roughly.
“ He told me, no more nor the night he
came with Catherine, that none o’ them
were to be down from the farm.”
They set out together without another
word. The sight of the shepherd had done
more to make up Charles’s mind than all
Susannah’s arguments and persuasions. She
had escaped so narrowly from being seen
by Heber in Charles’s company that she now
piloted her companion to the cottage
through the same quiet ways she had
traversed in the morning with her uncle.
She entered the house and disappeared
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine > (98) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129099678 |
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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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