Volume 19 — STEVENSON

VOLUME NINENTEEN

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII

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CONTENTS

THE EBB-TIDE

PAGE

Note by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne 3

PART I.—THE TRIO

CHAPTER

I. Night on the Beach 7

II. Morning on the Beach—the Three Letters 19

III. The Old Calaboose—Destiny at the Door 29

IV. The Yellow Flag 39

V. The Cargo of Champagne 46

VI. The Partners 69

PART II.—THE QUARTETTE

VII. The Pearl-Fisher 81

VIII. Better Acquaintance 96

IX. The Dinner Party 109

X. The Open Door 118

XI. David and Goliath 131

XII. A Tail-piece 151

WEIR OF HERMISTON

Introductory 159

I. Life and Death of Mrs. Weir 161

II. Father and Son 175

III. In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp 181

IV. Opinions of the Bench 196

V. Winter on the Moors:

1. At Hermiston 205

2. Kirstie 208

3. A Border Family 212

VI. A Leaf from Christina’s Psalm-Book 228

VII. Enter Mephistopheles 253

VIII. A Nocturnal Visit 270

IX. At the Weaver’s Stone 278

Sir Sidney Colvin’s Note 284

Glossary of Scots Words 297