قراءة كتاب An Orkney Maid
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AN ORKNEY MAID
By AMELIA E. BARR
An Orkney Maid
Christine
Joan
Profit and Loss
Three Score and Ten
The Measure of a Man
The Winning of Lucia
Playing with Fire
All the Days of My Life
D. Appleton & Company
Publishers
New York
AN ORKNEY MAID
BY
AMELIA E. BARR
AUTHOR OF “CHRISTINE,” “JOAN,” “PROFIT AND LOSS,” ETC.
“The pleasant habit of existence, the sweet fable of life.”
ILLUSTRATED
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK
LONDON
1918
Copyright, 1918, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
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TO MY DEAR FRIEND DR. MARTIN BARR OF ELWYNN, PENNSYLVANIA, I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK. Amelia E. Barr.
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MOTTO
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“You can glad your child, or grieve it, |
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER |
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| Introduction | 1 | |
| I. | The House of Ragnor | 7 |
| II. | Adam Vedder’s Trouble | 30 |
| III. | Aries the Ram | 47 |
| IV. | Sunna and Her Grandfather | 72 |
| V. | Sunna and Thora | 98 |
| VI. | The Old, Old Trouble | 129 |
| VII. | The Call of War | 164 |
| VIII. | Thora’s Problem | 193 |
| IX. | The Bread of Bitterness | 230 |
| X. | The One Remains, the Many Change and Pass | 271 |
| XI. | Sequences | 304 |
Yesterday morning this thing happened to me: I was reading the New York Times and my eyes suddenly fell upon one word, and that word rang a little bell in my memory, “Kirkwall!” The next moment I had closed my eyes in order to see backward more clearly, and slowly, but surely, the old, old town––standing boldly upon the very beach of the stormy North Sea––became clear in my mental vision. There was a whole fleet of fishing boats, and a few smart smuggling craft rocking gently in its wonderful harbour––a harbour so deep and safe, and so capacious that it appeared capable of sheltering the navies of the world.
I was then eighteen years old, I am now over eighty-six; and the straits of Time have widened and widened with every year, so that many things