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The Interloper

Chapter 37: Transcriber’s Note
By Violet Jacob
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About This Book

The narrative follows a shy young heir who arrives at his ancestral Lowlands house on the coast and negotiates the responsibilities and social entanglements of inheritance. Legal formalities and local acquaintances introduce tensions between tradition and personal inclination; the book traces friendships, rivalries, and romantic complications amid a vividly rendered rural community. Scenes alternate between domestic conversation, parish life, and estate matters, and the tone combines observation of manners with subtle psychological insight. Recurring motifs include language and local custom, the burdens of expectation, and the slow unraveling of secrets tied to family property, culminating in personal reckonings and resolutions.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription is based on scans of the Heinemann edition, which are available through the National Library of Scotland:

digital.nls.uk/128693605

The following changes were made to the printed text:

  • The advertisement for The Sheep-Stealers has been moved from the front of the text to the end.
  • The footnotes have been moved from the bottom of a page to right after the paragraph to which they refer for the plain text version of this transcription or to the end of the chapter for the HTML-based versions.
  • p. 26: The expensive taste was hers table—Changed “hers table” to “her stable”.
  • p. 63: continued Jimmy; ’twas i’ the airm, too.—Inserted an opening single quotation mark before “’twas”.
  • p. 78: laid it deftly across his cheekbone.—Changed “cheekbone” to “cheek-bone” for consistency.
  • p. 115: ‘How glad I am that I spoke to you about it—Inserted a period and a closing single quotation mark after “about it”.
  • p. 133: I am sorry,’ said Lady Eliza, too much cast down—Inserted an opening single quotation mark at the beginning of the sentence.

Inconsistencies of spelling and hyphenation were not changed, except where otherwise noted.