Huntingtower

By Buchan, John

Book Id: WPLBN0000613349
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Huntingtower
Author:	Buchan, John
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Prologue: The girl came into the room with a darting movement like a swallow, looked round her with the same birdlike quickness, and then ran across the polished floor to where a young man sat on a sofa with one leg laid along it. ?I have saved you this dance, Quentin,? she said, pronouncing the name with a pretty staccato. ?You must be lonely not dancing, so I will sit with you. What shall we talk about?? The young man did not answer at once, for his gaze was held by her face. He had never dreamed that the gawky and rather plain little girl whom he had romped with long ago in Paris would grow into such a being. The clean delicate lines of her figure, the exquisite pure colouring of hair and skin, the charming young arrogance of the eyes this was beauty, he reflected, a miracle, a revelation. Her virginal fineness and her dress, which was the tint of pale fire, gave her the air of a creature of ice and flame.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Huntingtower, 1 -- John Buchan, 1 -- PROLOGUE, 2 -- Chapter 1. HOW A RETIRED PROVISION MERCHANT FELT THE IMPULSE OF -- SPRING, 4 -- Chapter II. OF MR. JOHN HERITAGE AND THE DIFFERENCE IN POINTS OF VIEW, 7 -- Chapter III. HOW CHILDE ROLAND AND ANOTHER CAME TO THE DARK TOWER, 14 -- Chapter IV. DOUGAL, 24 -- Chapter V. OF THE PRINCESS IN THE TOWER, 30 -- Chapter VI. HOW MR. McCUNN DEPARTED WITH RELIEF AND RETURNED WITH -- RESOLUTION, 42 -- Chapter VII. SUNDRY DOINGS IN THE MIRK, 51 -- Chapter VIII. HOW A MIDDLE?AGED CRUSADER ACCEPTED A CHALLENGE, 58 -- Chapter IX. THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE CRUIVES, 65 -- Chapter X. DEALS WITH AN ESCAPE AND A JOURNEY, 72 -- Chapter XI. GRAVITY OUT OF BED, 80 -- Chapter XII. HOW MR. McCUNN COMMITTED AN ASSAULT UPON AN ALLY, 86 -- Chapter XIII. THE COMING OF THE DANISH BRIG, 93 -- Chapter XIV. THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE CRUIVES, 98 -- Chapter XV. THE GORBALS DIE?HARDS GO INTO ACTION, 110 -- Chapter XVI. IN WHICH A PRINCESS LEAVES A DARK TOWER AND A -- PROVISION MERCHANT RETURNS TO HIS FAMILY, 117