Foes

Foes
A Novel

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Foes by Mary Johnston

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1918

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A dramatic picturesque story of the time of the Steward uprising in Scotland. Two friends, sons of Scottish lairds, love each other as David and Jonathan. The one, handsome and brilliant, betrays his friends sweetheart, who drowns herself in the Kelpie pool. The remainder of the story is the pursuit of her love to find the now hated foe who has gone to fight for James Stewart.

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s in my house, and it is the same. If I buy Black Hill, Glenfernie, I hope that your son and my nephew may be friends. They're about of an age."

The listening Jamie spoke from beyond Strickland. "What's your nephew's name, sir?"

"Ian. Ian Rullock. His father's mother was a Highland lady, near kinswoman to Gordon of Huntley." Mr. Touris was again speaking to his host. "As a laddie, before his father's death (his mother, my sister, died at his birth), he was much with those troublous northern kin. His father took him, too, in England, here and there among the Tory crowd. But I've had him since he was twelve and am carrying him on in the straight Whig path."

"And in the true Presbyterian religion?"

"Why, as to that," said Mr. Touris, "his father was of the Church Episcopal in Scotland. I trust that we are all Christians, Glenfernie!"

The laird made a dissenting sound. "I kenned," he said, and his voice held a grating gibe, "that you had left the Kirk."

Mr. Archibald Tour

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