Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Katherine Ward, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Little Minister _By_ J. M. BARRIE Maude Adams Edition NEW YORK R. H. RUSSELL: Publisher 1898 Copyright 1891 and 1895 By UNITED STATES BOOK CO. Copyright 1898 By ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL CONTENTS PAGE I. The Love-Light. 1 II. Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister. 7 III. The Night-Watchers. 17 IV. First Coming of the Egyptian Woman. 30 V. A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the Minister by the Woman. 42 VI. In Which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums. 50 VII. Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman's Eyes by way of Text. 62 VIII. 3 A.M.--Monstrous Audacity of the Woman. 69 IX. The Woman Considered in Absence--Adventures of a Military Cloak. 79 X. First Sermon Against Women. 89 XI. Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall During the Curling Season. 100 XII. Tragedy of a Mud House. 110 XIII. Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman. 117 XIV. The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping. 125 XV. The Minister Bewitched--Second Sermon against Women. 135 XVI. Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman. 143 XVII. Intrusion of Haggart into These Pages against the Author's Wish. 151 XVIII. Caddam--Love Leading to a Rupture. 161 XIX. Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval of Women. 169 XX. End of the State of Indecision. 177 XXI. Night--Margaret--Flashing of a Lantern. 186 XXII. Lovers. 196 XXIII. Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One Chapter. 205 XXIV. The New World, and the Woman Who May Not Dwell Therein. 211 XXV. Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours. 217 XXVI. Scene at the Spittal. 225 XXVII. First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the Twenty-Four Hours. 232 XXVIII. The Hill before Darkness Fell--Scene of the Impending Catastrophe.