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Doom Castle

Neil Munro

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Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilous journey, Count Victor arrives at Doom Castle as a guest of the enigmatic Baron of Doom, his two strange servitors and his beautiful daughter.
ons determined Count Victor upon an immediate removal from this starven castle and this suspicious host. But when he joined Doom in the salle he constrained his features to a calm reserve, showing none of his emotions.

He found the Baron seated by the fire, and ready to take a suspiciously loud but abstracted interest in his ramble.

"Well, Count," said he, "ye've seen the castle of the King o' the Hielan's, as we call him, have you? And what think ye of MacCailen's quarters?"

Montaiglon lounged to a chair, threw a careless glance at his interrogator, pulled the ever upright moustache, and calmly confessed them charming.

A bitter smile came on the face of his host. "They might well be that," said he. "There's many a picking there." And then he became garrulous upon the tale of his house and family, that seemed to have been dogged by misfortune for a century and a half; that had owned once many of these lush glens, the shoulders of these steep bens, the shores of that curving coast. Bit by bit that ancient patrimony had sloughed off in successive generations, lost to lust, to the gambler's folly, the spendthrift's weakness.

"Hard, is it not?" questioned his host. "I'm the man that should have Doom at its very best, for I could bide among my people here, and like them, and make them like me, without a thought of rambling about the world. 'Mildewing with a ditch between you and life' my grandfather used to call it, when old age took him back from his gaieties abroad. Faith! I wish I had the chance to do it better than I may. All's here I ever wanted of life, and I have tasted it elsewhere, too. Give me my own acres and my own people about me, and it would be a short day indeed from the rise of the sun till bedtime—a short day and a happy. My father used, after a week or two at home, to walk round the point of Strome where you were to-day and look at the skiffs and gabberts

Andrew 05/08/2023
There is something deeply satisfying about finding in an old library or attic some fusty old book that hasn't been opened in decades, only to find within its pages an exciting adventure as fresh and as vibrant as the day it was written. Neil Munro is the natural successor to R.L. Stevenson, who in t
Blue 08/04/2020
I first read Doom Castle years ago when I was in high school, and though I remember enjoying it, a recent re-read proved that almost none of the plot stayed with me over the years- most likely because I found the prose excessively wordy and difficult to get through. Since I now possess a much wider
Mick 04/01/2015
An enjoyable, post-Culloden tale of Jacobite spies, romance, legal wranglings and revenge. Despite these subjects, the book takes on a light-hearted approach, thanks in part to the joie-de-vivre of the main character and the wonderfully grumpy Mungo Boyd who surely steals the show. The thick Fife di
Rog 09/02/2014
This is a historical novel, first published in 1901, set in 1755 about a french count who comes to Argyll seeking revenge. There are some fascinating characters and some exciting scenes but overall I found the story a bit too sentimental.

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