THE MARQUIS OF LOSSIE by George MacDonald CONTENTS. I. THE STABLE-YARD II. THE LIBRARY III. MISS HORN IV. KELPIE’S AIRING V. LIZZY FINDLAY VI. MR CRATHIE VII. BLUE PETER VIII. VOYAGE TO LONDON IX. LONDON STREETS X. THE TEMPEST XI. DEMON AND THE PIPES XII. A NEW LIBRARY XIII. TWO CONVERSATIONS XIV. FLORIMEL XV. PORTLOSSIE XVI. ST JAMES THE APOSTLE XVII. A DIFFERENCE XVIII. LORD LIFTORE XIX. KELPIE IN LONDON XX. BLUE PETER XXI. MR GRAHAM XXII. RICHMOND PARK XXIII. PAINTER AND GROOM XXIV. A LADY XXV. THE PSYCHE XXVI. THE SCHOOLMASTER XXVII. THE PREACHER XXVIII. THE PORTRAIT XXIX. AN EVIL OMEN XXX. A QUARREL XXXI. THE TWO DAIMONS XXXII. A CHASTISEMENT XXXIII. LIES XXXIV. AN OLD ENEMY XXXV. THE EVIL GENIUS XXXVI. CONJUNCTIONS XXXVII. AN INNOCENT PLOT XXXVIII. THE JOURNEY XXXIX. DISCIPLINE XL. MOONLIGHT XLI. THE SWIFT XLII. ST RONAN’S WELL XLIII. A PERPLEXITY XLIV. THE MIND OF THE AUTHOR XLV. THE RIDE HOME XLVI. PORTLAND PLACE XLVII. PORTLOSSIE AND SCAURNOSE XLVIII. TORTURE XLIX. THE PHILTRE L. THE DEMONESS AT BAY LI. THE PSYCHE LII. HOPE CHAPEL LIII. A NEW PUPIL LIV. THE FEY FACTOR LV. THE WANDERER LVI. MID-OCEAN LVII. THE SHORE LVIII. THE TRENCH LIX. THE PEACEMAKER LX. AN OFFERING LXI. THOUGHTS LXII. THE DUNE LXIII. CONFESSION OF SIN LXIV. A VISITATION LXV. THE EVE OF THE CRISIS LXVI. SEA LXVII. SHORE LXVIII. THE CREW OF THE BONNIE ANNIE LXIX. LIZZY’S BABY LXX. THE DISCLOSURE LXXI. THE ASSEMBLY LXXII. KNOTTED STRANDS CHAPTER I. THE STABLE-YARD. It was one of those exquisite days that come in every winter, in which it seems no longer the dead body, but the lovely ghost of summer. Such a day bears to its sister of the happier time something of the relation the marble statue bears to the living form; the sense it awakes of beauty is more abstract, more ethereal; it lifts the soul into a higher region than will summer day of lordliest splendour. It is like the love that loss has purified.