Lay Morals

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Contents: 
   Lay Morals
      Chapter I
      Chapter II
      Chapter III
      Chapter IV
   Father Damien
   The Pentland Rising
      Chapter I—­The Causes of the Revolt
      Chapter II—­The Beginning
      Chapter III—­The March of the Rebels
      Chapter IV—­Rullion Green
      Chapter V—­A Record of Blood
   The Day After To-morrow
   College Papers
      Chapter I—­Edinburgh Students in 1824
      Chapter II—­The Modern Student
      Chapter III—­Debating Societies
   Criticisms
      Chapter I—­Lord Lytton’s “Fables in Song”
      Chapter II—­Salvini’s Macbeth
      Chapter III—­Bagster’s “Pilgrim’s Progress”
   Sketches
      The Satirist
      Nuits Blanches
      The Wreath of Immortelles
      Nurses
      A Character
   The Great North Road
      Chapter I—­Nance at the “Green Dragon”
      Chapter II—­In which Mr. Archer is Installed
      Chapter III—­Jonathan Holdaway
      Chapter IV—­Mingling Threads
      Chapter V—­Life in the Castle
      Chapter IV—­The Bad Half-Crown
      Chapter VII—­The Bleaching-Green
      Chapter VIII—­The Mail Guard
   The Young Chevalier
      Prologue:  The Wine-Seller’s Wife
      Chapter I—­The Prince
   Heathercat
      Chapter I—­Traqairs of Montroymont
      Chapter II—­Francie
      Chapter III—­The Hill-End of Drumlowe