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Warlock o' Glenwarlock

George MacDonald

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Warlock o' Glenwarlock

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key, an' ye winna forget, John?" said Aggie, laying the key amongst his tools. "Grannie's lyin' there her lee-lane, an' gien the hoose was to tak fire, what wad come o' her?"

"Guid forbid onybody sud forget Grannie!" rejoined the man heartily; "but fire wad hae a sma' chance the nicht."

Agnes thanked and left him. All the time he had not missed a single stroke of his hammer on the benleather between it and his lapstone.

When she rejoined Cosmo, where he stood leaning his back against the wind in the middle of the road,

"Come nae farther, Aggie," he said. "It's an ill nicht, an' grows waur. There's nae guid in't naither, for we winna hear ane anither speyk ohn stoppit, an' turnt oor backs til't. Gang to yer Grannie; she'll be feart aboot ye."

"Nae a bit. I maun see ye oot o' the toon."

They fought their way along the street, and out on the open moor, the greater part of which was still heather and swamp. Peat-bog and ploughed land was all one waste of snow. Creation seemed but the snow that had fallen, the snow that was falling, and the snow that had yet to fall; or, to put it otherwise, a fall of snow between two outspread worlds of snow.

"Gang back, noo, Aggie," said Cosmo again. "What's the guid o' twa whaur ane only need be, an' baith hae to fecht for themsel's?"

"I'm no gaein' back yet," persisted Aggie. "Twa's better at onything nor ane himblane. The sutor's wife's gaein' in to see Grannie, an' Grannie 'll like her cracks a heap better nor mine. She thinks I hae nae mair brains nor a hen,'cause I canna min' upo' things at war nearhan' forgotten or I was born."

Cosmo desisted from useless persuasion, and they struggled on together, through the snow above and the snow beneath. At this Aggie was more than a match for Cosmo. Lighter and smaller, and perhaps with larger lungs in

David 07/12/2018
Castle Warlock, whilst being one of MacDonald's realistic novels (or to further subdivide, one of his 12 Scottish novels) comes close to fantasy in a more overt way, perhaps, than many of the others: though there are elements of the fantastic in everything he wrote, the author being an inveterate, e
Billy 08/20/2015
There are few things more delightful than reading a book at just the right time in life for it to speak to you with every turn of the page. I picked up Castle Warlock at the exact moment it would have the greatest positive effect.

George Macdonald is an author who simply dazzles me time after time. N
James 09/23/2012
The author has been one of my favorites for a long time. I appreciate his mystical novels for adults as well as his fantasies for children, which inspired C. S. Lewis.

This is one of his Scottish border novels, which talk of wealth, poverty and class war in a humane and gentle way. Another is "Sir G

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