LORNA DOONE,
A Romance of Exmoor
by R. D. Blackmore
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
PUBLISHERS' PREFACE
PREFACE BY MISS KATHARINE HILLARD
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
CHAPTER XLIII
CHAPTER XLIV
CHAPTER XLV
CHAPTER XLVI
CHAPTER XLVII
CHAPTER XLVIII
CHAPTER XLIX
CHAPTER L
CHAPTER LI
CHAPTER LII
CHAPTER LIII
CHAPTER LIV
CHAPTER LV
CHAPTER LVI
CHAPTER LVII
CHAPTER LVIII
CHAPTER LIX
CHAPTER LX
CHAPTER LXI
CHAPTER LXII
CHAPTER LXIII
CHAPTER LXIV
CHAPTER LXV
CHAPTER LXVI
CHAPTER LXVII
CHAPTER LXVIII
CHAPTER LXIX
CHAPTER LXX
CHAPTER LXXI
CHAPTER LXXII
CHAPTER LXXIII
CHAPTER LXXIV
CHAPTER LXXV
List of Illustrations
Cover
Frontispiece
Titlepage
Frontispiece2
Map
Autograph.jpg
xii.jpg Tailpiece
xv.jpg Malmsmead
Map
001a.jpg
001b.jpg Illustrated Capital
Greek1.jpg
Greek2.jpg
002.jpg John Ridd's School Desk
005.jpg The School Room
014.jpg Illustrated Capital
019.jpg Great Coach and Six Horses Labouring
021.jpg Where Be Us Now?
026.jpg Said It Was But a Pixie
028.jpg Illustrated Capital
029.jpg He Rode at the Doone Robber
030.jpg Father Was Found Dead on the Moor
034.jpg Here is a Lady, Counsellor
037.jpg Illustrated Capital
042.jpg Tailpiece
043.jpg Illustrated Capital
045.jpg Won Skill in Target Practice
051.jpg Illustrated Capital
058.jpg A Long Pale Slide of Water
062.jpg Illustrated Capital
063.jpg Sate Upright
069.jpg Tailpiece
070.jpg Illustrated Capital
072.jpg John Ridd at Supper
077.jpg Illustrated Capital
079.jpg A Brave Rescue
081.jpg Tom Faggus
083.jpg Bill Dadds
084.jpg A Rough Ride
085.jpg Tailpiece
086.jpg Illustrated Capital
092.jpg Tailpiece
093.jpg Tom Faggus
100.jpg To Be Upon the Beach
102.jpg Tailpiece
103.jpg Illustrated Capital
105.jpg Uncle Ben in Our Warm Chimney-corner
114.jpg Farmer Snow Sat up in the Chair
118.jpg Illustrated Capital
120.jpg Hugh de Whichehalse
127.jpg Tailpiece
128.jpg Illustrated Capital
129.jpg Let Annie Scold Me Well
131.jpg The Meadow Ruffled in The Breeze
132.jpg Willow-bushes over the Stream
136.jpg Tailpiece
137.jpg Illustrated Capital
142.jpg Mother Melldrum
143.jpg Tarr-steps
145.jpg The Devil's Cheese-wring
146.jpg Illustrated Capital
150.jpg "Lie Down!" I Shouted
152.jpg Illustrated Capital
153.jpg Fields Spread With Growth
157.jpg Here Be Some Mistress Lorna
159.jpg Tailpiece
160.jpg Illustrated Capital
162.jpg I Went to Wipe Her Eyes
163.jpg Jewels Lately Belonging to Others
165.jpg Gwenny Carfax
168.jpg Tailpiece
169.jpg Illustrated Capital
172.jpg She Led Me in a Courtly Manner
178.jpg Glen Doone
179.jpg Marwood de Whichehase
182.jpg Spring Was in Our Valley
185.jpg Illustrated Capital
186.jpg Mistress Ridd
190.jpg Read, Read Read!
194.jpg Tailpiece
195.jpg Illustrated Capital
197.jpg Jeremy Kept Me in Jokes
203.jpg Tailpiece
204.jpg Westminster Hall, 1650
212.jpg Tailpiece
213.jpg His Lordship Busy With Letters
222.jpg The Luttrell Arms
223.jpg Home at Last
225.jpg Tailpiece
226.jpg Illustrated Capital
236.jpg The Signal
237.jpg A Wealth of Harvest
242.jpg Annie and Lizzie
243.jpg Harvest
245.jpg Tailpiece
246.jpg Illustrated Capital
248.jpg Spare Pipe
253.jpg Maidens Are Such Wondrous Things
256.jpg Illustrated Capital
267.jpg Tailpiece
268.jpg Charles II.
271.jpg Thatching of the Ricks
274.jpg Ha, Ha! Charlie Boy
277.jpg The Pigs
280.jpg Illustrated Capital
281.jpg Autumn's Mellow Hand
283.jpg At Last Then, You Are Come John
286.jpg Illustrated Capital
290.jpg Gotten the Best of Mother
292.jpg Carver Doone
294.jpg Poor Ruth Huckaback Herself
296.jpg She Had Tears in Her Eyes
299.jpg Guy Fawkes
304.jpg Nevertheless, I Went Warily
306.jpg Illustrated Capital
318.jpg Illustrated Capital
328.jpg Illustrated Capital
339.jpg Hand Forth Your Money
341.jpg Tailpiece
342.jpg Illustrated Capital
351.jpg Illustrated Capital
358.jpg Illustrated Capital
361.jpg None Can Tell What the Labour Was
368.jpg Tailpiece
369.jpg Illustrated Capital
378.jpg Tailpiece
379.jpg Illustrated Capital
383.jpg Set All My Power Against the Door
387.jpg In the Settle Was My Lorna
389.jpg Marwood Whichehalse
397.jpg Illustrated Capital
399.jpg Jump in and Swim
401.jpg He Clad Her over the Loins
407.jpg "Master Faggus," Began My Mother
409.jpg Tailpiece
410.jpg Illustrated Capital
411.jpg Something Fell on My Head
413.jpg Tom Faggus Took It Eagerly
419.jpg With a Wave of his Hat
421.jpg Tailpiece
422.jpg The Bagworthy Water
432.jpg Illustrated Capital
433.jpg The Moon Was High
437.jpg I Took Him by the Beard
440.jpg Annie Bound the Broken Arm
441.jpg Tailpiece
442.jpg Illustrated Capital
454.jpg Tailpiece
455.jpg Counsellor
464.jpg Illustrated Capital
472.jpg Illustrated Capital
474.jpg Snug Little House Blinked on Me
482.jpg Tailpiece
483.jpg Illustrated Capital
494.jpg Tailpiece
495.jpg Devonshire Town
502.jpg In a Shower of Damask Roses
504.jpg Tailpiece
505.jpg Lorna
517.jpg Tailpiece
518.jpg Illustrated Capital
519.jpg In the Churchyard
524.jpg Kept My Eyes from Her
531.jpg Little Ruth Was at the Bridle
535.jpg Illustrated Capital
541.jpg Never Had Seen the Like Before
544.jpg Swung Me on High
546.jpg Illustrated Capital
547.jpg Wizard
559.jpg Illustrated Capital
566.jpg Tailpiece
567.jpg Dulvertin Church and Street
572.jpg What is Your Advice to Me?
575.jpg Lynmouth
582.jpg Waved a Blue Flag Vehemently
586.jpg Tailpiece
587.jpg Illustrated Capital
595.jpg Tailpiece
596.jpg James I.
604.jpg Illustrated Capital
612.jpg Tailpiece
613.jpg Illustrated Capital
623.jpg Illustrated Capital
631.jpg Old London Bridge
632.jpg Illustrated Capital
639.jpg Two Bad Men
644.jpg Coat of Arms
645.jpg John Ridd Admiring his Coat of Arms
652.jpg Siezed Poor Margery
654.jpg Illustrated Capital
657.jpg Disdainful Smile
660.jpg Volley Sang With a Roar
663.jpg Having Pipes and Schnapps
664.jpg Tailpiece
665.jpg Illustrated Capital
671.jpg Law and Justice
677.jpg Rising Moonlight
679.jpg Tailpiece
680.jpg Illustrated Capital
685.jpg Tailpiece
686.jpg Entrance to Oare Church
693.jpg Tailpiece
694.jpg Illustrated Capital
703.jpg Tailpiece
PREFACE
This work is called a "romance," because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly coloured and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called a "legend."
And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse-tales of his childhood—the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd's Herculean power, and (memory's too congenial food) the exploits of Tom Faggus.
March, 1869.