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102 IRRESOLUTE CATHERINE
she forced herself to eat and drink, knowing
that she must collect what strength she
could muster if her feet were to carry
her away from the cottage and out of
Talgwynne. To go to-day was out of the
question, but she determined to take any
chance she could get of slipping off un¬
noticed on the morrow.
She had no plans beyond her settled desire
to turn her back on her own humiliation
and on Susannah, who had brought it home
to her. She would hide herself wherever
she could, or tramp the roads as a beggar
sooner than be obliged to accept the
grudging hospitality of Heber’s cousin. The
idea of waiting under those scornful eyes
for the man who might never come was
worse than destitution—worse than the
workhouse. As the day wore on and she
was able to get up and sit by the fireside
at old Moorhouse’s invitation, she formed
a vague scheme of crossing the Wye and
trying for shelter and employment in one
she forced herself to eat and drink, knowing
that she must collect what strength she
could muster if her feet were to carry
her away from the cottage and out of
Talgwynne. To go to-day was out of the
question, but she determined to take any
chance she could get of slipping off un¬
noticed on the morrow.
She had no plans beyond her settled desire
to turn her back on her own humiliation
and on Susannah, who had brought it home
to her. She would hide herself wherever
she could, or tramp the roads as a beggar
sooner than be obliged to accept the
grudging hospitality of Heber’s cousin. The
idea of waiting under those scornful eyes
for the man who might never come was
worse than destitution—worse than the
workhouse. As the day wore on and she
was able to get up and sit by the fireside
at old Moorhouse’s invitation, she formed
a vague scheme of crossing the Wye and
trying for shelter and employment in one
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Irresolute Catherine > (106) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129099774 |
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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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