The Project Gutenberg eBook of Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Title: Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Author: R. D. Blackmore
Release date: January 4, 2006 [eBook #17460]
Most recently updated: July 3, 2022
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
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 -- ELEMENTS OF EDUCATION
CHAPTER II -- AN IMPORTANT ITEM
CHAPTER III -- THE WAR-PATH OF THE DOONES
CHAPTER IV -- A VERY RASH VISIT
CHAPTER V -- AN ILLEGAL SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER VI -- NECESSARY PRACTICE
CHAPTER VII -- HARD IT IS TO CLIMB
CHAPTER VIII -- A BOY AND A GIRL
CHAPTER IX -- THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
CHAPTER X -- A BRAVE RESCUE AND A ROUGH RIDE
CHAPTER XI -- TOM DESERVES HIS SUPPER
CHAPTER XII -- A MAN JUSTLY POPULAR
CHAPTER XIII -- MASTER HUCKABACK COMES IN
CHAPTER XIV -- A MOTION WHICH ENDS IN A MULL
CHAPTER XVI -- LORNA GROWING FORMIDABLE
CHAPTER XVII -- JOHN IS BEWITCHED
CHAPTER XVIII -- WITCHERY LEADS TO WITCHCRAFT
CHAPTER XIX -- ANOTHER DANGEROUS INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XX -- LORNA BEGINS HER STORY
CHAPTER XXI -- LORNA ENDS HER STORY
CHAPTER XXIII -- A ROYAL INVITATION
CHAPTER XXIV -- A SAFE PASS FOR KING'S MESSENGER
CHAPTER XXV -- A GREAT MAN ATTENDS TO BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXVI -- JOHN IS DRAINED AND CAST ASIDE
CHAPTER XXVII -- HOME AGAIN AT LAST
CHAPTER XXVIII -- JOHN HAS HOPE OF LORNA
CHAPTER XXIX -- REAPING LEADS TO REVELLING
CHAPTER XXX -- ANNIE GETS THE BEST OF IT
CHAPTER XXXI -- JOHN FRY'S ERRAND
CHAPTER XXXII -- FEEDING OF THE PIGS
CHAPTER XXXIII -- AN EARLY MORNING CALL
CHAPTER XXXIV -- TWO NEGATIVES MAKE AN AFFIRMATIVE
CHAPTER XXXV -- RUTH IS NOT LIKE LORNA
CHAPTER XXXVI -- JOHN RETURNS TO BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXXVII -- A VERY DESPERATE VENTURE
CHAPTER XXXVIII -- A GOOD TURN FOR JEREMY
CHAPTER XXXIX -- A TROUBLED STATE AND A FOOLISH JOKE
CHAPTER XL -- TWO FOOLS TOGETHER
CHAPTER XLII -- THE GREAT WINTER
CHAPTER XLIV -- BROUGHT HOME AT LAST
CHAPTER XLV -- A CHANGE LONG NEEDED
CHAPTER XLVI -- SQUIRE FAGGUS MAKES SOME LUCKY HITS
CHAPTER XLVII -- JEREMY IN DANGER
CHAPTER XLVIII -- EVERY MAN MUST DEFEND HIMSELF
CHAPTER XLIX -- MAIDEN SENTINELS ARE BEST
CHAPTER L -- A MERRY MEETING A SAD ONE
CHAPTER LI -- A VISIT FROM THE COUNSELLOR
CHAPTER LII -- THE WAY TO MAKE THE CREAM RISE
CHAPTER LIII -- JEREMY FINDS OUT SOMETHING
CHAPTER LIV -- MUTUAL DISCOMFITURE
CHAPTER LV -- GETTING INTO CHANCERY
CHAPTER LVI -- JOHN BECOMES TOO POPULAR
CHAPTER LVII -- LORNA KNOWS HER NURSE
CHAPTER LVIII -- MASTER HUCKABACK'S SECRET
CHAPTER LIX -- LORNA GONE AWAY
CHAPTER LX -- ANNIE LUCKIER THAN JOHN
CHAPTER LXI -- THEREFORE HE SEEKS COMFORT
CHAPTER LXII -- THE KING MUST NOT BE PRAYED FOR
CHAPTER LXIII -- JOHN IS WORSTED BY THE WOMEN
CHAPTER LXIV -- SLAUGHTER IN THE MARSHES
CHAPTER LXV -- FALLING AMONG LAMBS
CHAPTER LXVI -- SUITABLE DEVOTION
CHAPTER LXVII -- LORNA STILL IS LORNA
CHAPTER -- JOHN IS JOHN NO LONGERLXVIII
CHAPTER LXIX -- NOT TO BE PUT UP WITH
CHAPTER LXX -- COMPELLED TO VOLUNTEER
CHAPTER LXXI -- A LONG ACCOUNT SETTLED
CHAPTER LXXII -- THE COUNSELLOR AND THE CARVER
CHAPTER LXXIII -- HOW TO GET OUT OF CHANCERY
CHAPTER LXXIV -- BLOOD UPON THE ALTAR
CHAPTER LXXV -- BLOOD UPON THE ALTAR
List of Illustrations
002.jpg John Ridd's School Desk
019.jpg Great Coach and Six Horses Labouring
026.jpg Said It Was But a Pixie
029.jpg He Rode at the Doone Robber
030.jpg Father Was Found Dead on the Moor
034.jpg Here is a Lady, Counsellor
045.jpg Won Skill in Target Practice
058.jpg A Long Pale Slide of Water
105.jpg Uncle Ben in Our Warm Chimney-corner
114.jpg Farmer Snow Sat up in the Chair
129.jpg Let Annie Scold Me Well
131.jpg The Meadow Ruffled in The Breeze
132.jpg Willow-bushes over the Stream
145.jpg The Devil's Cheese-wring
153.jpg Fields Spread With Growth
157.jpg Here Be Some Mistress Lorna
162.jpg I Went to Wipe Her Eyes
163.jpg Jewels Lately Belonging to Others
172.jpg She Led Me in a Courtly Manner
182.jpg Spring Was in Our Valley
197.jpg Jeremy Kept Me in Jokes
204.jpg Westminster Hall, 1650
213.jpg His Lordship Busy With Letters
253.jpg Maidens Are Such Wondrous Things
271.jpg Thatching of the Ricks
283.jpg At Last Then, You Are Come John
290.jpg Gotten the Best of Mother
294.jpg Poor Ruth Huckaback Herself
296.jpg She Had Tears in Her Eyes
304.jpg Nevertheless, I Went Warily
361.jpg None Can Tell What the Labour Was
383.jpg Set All My Power Against the Door
387.jpg In the Settle Was My Lorna
401.jpg He Clad Her over the Loins
407.jpg “Master Faggus,” Began My Mother
411.jpg Something Fell on My Head
413.jpg Tom Faggus Took It Eagerly
419.jpg With a Wave of his Hat
437.jpg I Took Him by the Beard
440.jpg Annie Bound the Broken Arm
474.jpg Snug Little House Blinked on Me
502.jpg In a Shower of Damask Roses
531.jpg Little Ruth Was at the Bridle
534.jpg Master Huckaback Cast Back his Coat
541.jpg Never Had Seen the Like Before
567.jpg Dulverton Church and Street
572.jpg What is Your Advice to Me?
582.jpg Waved a Blue Flag Vehemently
645.jpg John Ridd Admiring his Coat of Arms
660.jpg Volley Sang With a Roar
663.jpg Having Pipes and Schnapps
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.