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The Master of Stair
Marjorie Bowen
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Delia stood up; there was a gleam of satin as she moved, a quick rustle; she had her hands on her bosom and they rose and fell very quickly.
“Did she shoot you?” she asked.
“Yea,” he answered. “Against the mist I saw her harness shine, and like the sun was her yellow hair,—she leaned from the saddle and fired—but I had kissed her.” His breath came fast. He smiled. “I held her back against the rowan-tree, the berries all mingled with her fallen curls—I kissed her! She called out in your Southern tongue—then she said, “You have put that between us that I shall not forget,” and her white lids dropped till her red lashes touched her cheek—and I ... I cannot rest.”
Delia Featherstonehaugh laughed as relief to the effect of the romantic wording of the soft tongue a. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Bowen is a largely forgotten author from the Edwardian era, and I think that her use of gothic tropes on the back of the Victorian era may have something to do with that. The Master of Stair exceeded my expectations and included a twist that I did not expect based on the kind of author I suspected B
Interesting story based on historical fact.
The Master of Stair is a very dark, gothic novel set in the 1690s against the sinister backdrop of the Glencoe massacre. The anti-hero, Sir John Dalrymple (later the 1st Earl Stair and a major player in the later Union between England and Scotland) is a haughty sociopath with a dark past and a famil