Synopses & Reviews
Contents Include: The Love-Light - Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister - The Night-Watchers - First Coming of the Egyptian Woman - A Warlike Chapter Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman - In Which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums - Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman's Eyes by way of Text - Monstrous Audacity of the Woman - The Woman Considered in Absence, Adventures of a Military Cloak - First Sermon against Women - Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall During the Curling Season - Tragedy of a Mud House - Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman - The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping - The Minister Bewitched, Second Sermon Against Women - Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman - Intrusion of Haggart into These Pages against the Author's Wish - Caddam, Love Leading to a Rupture - Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women - End of the State of Indecision - Night, Margaret, Flashing of a Lantern - Lovers - Contains a Birth, which is Sufficient for One Chapter - The New World and the Woman who may not Dwell Therein - Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours - The Glen at the Break of Day - Story of the Dominie - Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours - Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours - Defence of the Manse - How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth - Babbie and Margaret, Defence of the Manse Continued - Rintoul and Babbie Breakdown of the Defence of the manse - Margaret, the Precentor and God Between - Rain, Mist, The Jaws - End of the Twenty-Four Hours - Talk of a Little maid since Grown Tall