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page: (Advertisement) [View Page (Advertisement) ]LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
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page: (Advertisement) [View Page (Advertisement) ]VENICE, THE CITY OF THE SEA.
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page: (TitlePage) [View Page (TitlePage) ]THE BLOODSTONE.
BYDonald Mac Leod,
AUTHOR OF "PYNNSHURST," "LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT," ETC.NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET.
1853.Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. TOBITT'S COMBINATION-TYPE, 181 William-st.
TO
MY BELOVED AND ONLY SISTER,
AS A MARK OP THANKS
FOR HER EARNEST AND UNFAILING LOVE,
THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
PREFACE.
MY DEAR SISTER:As this book is dedicated to you, and as you are the only affectionate and uncritical reader of whom I feel very sure, it is proper that any necessary word of explanation should be said to you.
During my residence on the Rhine, in 1850, much of my time was spent in quaint old Andernach, and one of my favorite haunts was precisely such a ruined keep as I have described in the following pages. Many a long hour of reverie have I spent within its cedar-crested, ivy-hung dilapidated walls: many a time have I dreamed of it since my return, and the chief incident in this story, told in Chapter XV., was a veritable "vision of the night."
page: vi-vii (Table of Contents) [View Page vi-vii (Table of Contents) ]Andernach, the ruin and its name, are the only realities I can offer you. For the rest, a distempered dream, worked out by after meditation, makes up this story, such as it is.
In the early portions of the work you will recognize some old familiar places and scenes, well known to the childhood of both of us. It may be too that you will recognize one or more portraits Be that as it may, you will be a gentle reader, and will wish well to this new venture of
YOUR AFFECTIONATE BROTHER.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4th, 1853.CONTENTS.
- I. Introductory. 11
- II. Reminiscences. 14
- III. Home Friends. 21
- IV. Corrumbling. 32
- V. Character. 41
- VI. Leaving Home. 54
- VII. Ueber See. 68
- VIII. New Beginnings. 80
- IX. The Bloodstone. 91
- X. Misunderstandings. 98
- XI. Cleared Up. 115
- XII. Initiation. 123
- XIII. Woe and Joy. 136
- XIV. The Spots upon the Bloodstone. 147
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- XV. Results. 160
- XVI. The Power of one Hasty Deed. 171
- XVII. Caspar Hefferman. 179
- XVIII. Mother and Sister. 189
- XIX. The Last Trial. 200
- XX. Conclusion. 210
