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COLLECTION

OF

B R I T I S H   A U T H O R S

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

VOL. 1419.

FOR LOVE AND LIFE BY MRS. OLIPHANT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

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“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots,with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.”

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FOR LOVE AND LIFE.

BY

MRS. OLIPHANT,

AUTHOR OF
“CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD,” “OMBRA,” “MAY,” ETC.

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

I N   T W O   V O L U M E S.

VOL. I.


LEIPZIG
BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ
1874.

The Right of Translation is reserved.

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FOR LOVE AND LIFE.

CHAPTER I.

On the Shores of Loch Arroch.

Three people were walking slowly along together by the side of thewater. One of them an invalid, as was apparent by the softly measuredsteps of her companions, subdued to keep in harmony with hers. These twoattendants were both young; the girl about twenty, a little lightcreature, with the golden hair so frequent in Scotland, and a face ofthe angelic kind, half-childish, half-visionary, over-brimming withmeaning, or almost entirely destitute of it, according to the eyes withwhich you happened to regard her. Both she and the invalid, a handsomeold woman of about seventy, were well and becomingly dressed in a homelyway, but they had none of the subtle traces about them which mark the“lady” in conventional parlance. They were not in the smallest degreewhat people call “common-looking.” The girl’s beauty and natural gracewould have distinguished her anywhere, and the old lady was evendignified in her bearing. But yet it was plain that they were of a castenot the highest. They moved along the narrow path,...