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

221.jpg Exmoor Hills

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

370.jpg Open Country

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

534.jpg Master Huckaback Cast Back his Coat

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 Dulverton 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








SLAIN BY THE DOONES.

by R. D. Blackmore

1895



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I—AFTER A STORMY LIFE.

CHAPTER II.—BY A QUIET RIVER.

CHAPTER III.—WISE COUNSEL.

CHAPTER IV.—A COTTAGE HOSPITAL.

CHAPTER V.—MISTAKEN AIMS.

CHAPTER VI.—OVER THE BRIDGE.








FRIDA; OR, THE LOVER'S LEAP

A Legend Of The West Country



By R. D. Blackmore

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.








GEORGE BOWRING

A TALE OF CADER IDRIS

By R. D. Blackmore



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.








CROCKER'S HOLE

By R. D. Blackmore



CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.








FRINGILLA

SOME TALES IN VERSE

By Richard Doddridge Blackmore


CONTENTS

TO MY PEN

LITA OF THE NILE

KADISHA; OR, THE FIRST JEALOUSY

MOUNT ARAFA

THE WELL OF SAINT JOHN

PAUSIAS AND GLYCERA; OR, THE FIRST FLOWER-PAINTER

BUSCOMBE; OR, A MICHAELMAS GOOSE

FAME






DARIEL

A Romance of Surrey

By R. D. Blackmore

With Drawings By Chris Hammond

1897



CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I   A Nightingale 1
II   The Family 9
III   Tom Erricker 16
IV   Mr. Stoneman 26
V   Ticknor's Mew 39
VI   True Hygiene 54
VII   Kuban 63
VIII   Through the Corn 74
IX   Strange Sensations 89
X   Upon the Ground 94
XI   Sûr Imar 102
XII   In the Background 109
XIII   Smiles and Tears 119
XIV   The Ruby Cross 132
XV   Sister v. Sweetheart 143
XVI   International Elements 149
XVII   Peppercorns 158
XVIII   A Lovebird 170
XIX   To Clear the Way 181
XX   Not for Sale 188
XXI   Voices of the Valley 192
XXII   Imar's Tale—War 197
XXIII   Imar's Tale—Love 208
XXIV   Imar's Tale—Peace 220
XXV   Imar's Tale—Crime 227
XXVI   Imar's Tale—Revenge 232
XXVII   Imar's Tale—Exile 241
XXVIII   Sanguine Still 244
XXIX   Large and Long Views 252
XXX   In the Quiet Places 261
XXXI   Pit-a-Pat 266
XXXII   A Painful Duty 276
XXXIII   Trembling 282
XXXIV   Rejoicing 292
XXXV   A Race of Platers 302
XXXVI   Gone, Gone, Gone 313
XXXVII   Lovers Make Moan 321
XXXVIII   Black Friday 334
XXXIX   Frangi, Non Flecti 344
XL   Twain More Than Twin 352
XLI   A Crooked Billet 363
XLII   Farewell, Smiler 373
XLIII   The Land of Medea 382
XLIV   The Land of Prometheus 390
XLV   Among the Gems 399
XLVI   Queen Marva 409
XLVII   Wolf's Meat 420
XLVIII   Usi, the Svân 427
XLIX   The Eye of God 433
L   Two Old Friends 441
LI   The Root of Evil 448
LII   Still in the Dark 455
LIII   A Ruthless Scheme 464
LIV   The Valley of Retribution 472
LV   At the Bar 481
LVI   Hard is the Fight 488
LVII   But Not in Vain 492

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


"Between whose Jagged Mullions flowed the Silvery Light"; Frontispiece
"'Allow me one Moment,' I said"; Facing page 70
"Sprawling in the Yellow Stubble"; 90
"Why, it must at least be a Princess"; 146
"Her sweet, kind Face as white as a Shroud"; 168
"She turned away her Face"; 218
"At the Door she turned, with a proud and calm Farewell to me"; 238
"What little there is, is entirely a genuine Article"; 274
"Sûr Imar received us with a Loving Smile"; 300
"A Woman of Great Substance rushed up and caught her"; 308
"'Rot!' I replied, with less Elegance than Terseness"; 340
"'I tell you what,' he said, turning round and looking at me with Authority"; 378
"Gazed at the Captain till he scarce knew where he was"; 416
"'Yes, I see,' he answered softly"; 504