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I. The Love-Light. 1
II. Runs Alongside the Making of a Minister. 7
III. The Night-Watchers. 17
IV. First Coming of the Egyptian Woman. 30
V. A Warlike Chapter, Culminating in the Flouting of the
Minister by the Woman. 42
VI. In Which the Soldiers Meet the Amazons of Thrums. 50
VII. Has the Folly of Looking into a Woman's Eyes by way
of Text. 62
VIII. 3 A.M.--Monstrous Audacity of the Woman. 69
IX. The Woman Considered in Absence--Adventures of a
Military Cloak. 79
X. First Sermon Against Women. 89
XI. Tells in a Whisper of Man's Fall During the Curling
Season. 100
XII. Tragedy of a Mud House. 110
XIII. Second Coming of the Egyptian Woman. 117
XIV. The Minister Dances to the Woman's Piping. 125
XV. The Minister Bewitched--Second Sermon against Women. 135
XVI. Continued Misbehaviour of the Egyptian Woman. 143
XVII. Intrusion of Haggart into These Pages against the
Author's Wish. 151
XVIII. Caddam--Love Leading to a Rupture. 161
XIX. Circumstances Leading to the First Sermon in Approval
of Women. 169
XX. End of the State of Indecision. 177
XXI. Night--Margaret--Flashing of a Lantern. 186
XXII. Lovers. 196
XXIII. Contains a Birth, Which is Sufficient for One
Chapter. 205
XXIV. The New World, and the Woman Who May Not Dwell
Therein. 211
XXV. Beginning of the Twenty-Four Hours. 217
XXVI. Scene at the Spittal. 225
XXVII. First Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the
Twenty-Four Hours. 232
XXVIII. The Hill before Darkness Fell--Scene of the Impending
Catastrophe. 237
XXIX. Story of the Egyptian. 244
XXX. The Meeting for Rain. 252
XXXI. Various Bodies Converging on the Hill. 259
XXXII. Leading Swiftly to the Appalling Marriage. 268
XXXIII. While the Ten O'Clock Bell Was Ringing. 274
XXXIV. The Great Rain. 281
XXXV. The Glen at Break of Day. 285
XXXVI. Story of the Dominie. 299
XXXVII. Second Journey of the Dominie to Thrums During the
Twenty-Four Hours. 308
XXXVIII. Thrums during the Twenty-Four Hours--Defence of the
Manse. 315
XXXIX. How Babbie Spent the Night of August Fourth. 324
XL. Babbie and Margaret--Defence of the Manse Continued. 330
XLI. Rintoul and Babbie--Breakdown of the Defence of the
Manse. 337
XLII. Margaret, the Precentor, and God Between. 345
XLIII. Rain--Mist--The Jaws. 353
XLIV. End of the Twenty-Four Hours. 363
XLV. Talk of a Little Maid Since Grown Tall. 369
[Illustration: "I'LL GI'E YOU MY RABBIT," MICAH SAID, "IF YOU'LL GANG
AWA'."--PAGE 215.]