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Title: Allison Bain
By a Way she knew not

Author: Margaret Murray Robertson

Illustrator: G.H. Edwards

Release Date: March 30, 2008 [EBook #24963]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Allison Bain, by Margaret Murray Robertson.

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For many people this will be a very difficult book to read. In the
first place most of the cast speak with a strong Scottish dialect, which
you could find very difficult to get used to. In the second place there
is a strong brand of Scottish Protestantism colouring practically every
conversation. And in the third place the book could probably be placed
fairly in the genre of "psychological novel," in which people talk a lot
but don't do much else.

You can certainly make an audiobook of it, but you will need your
strongest concentration to follow what is happening. Don't listen to it
while driving your car--it is far too demanding for that!

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ALLISON BAIN, BY MARGARET MURRAY ROBERTSON.

CHAPTER ONE.

"Was she wrong?
Is it wrong in the bird to escape from the snare of the fowler?
Is it wrong in the hunted deer to flee to the screening thicket?"

Mr Hadden was standing at the open door of the manse, waiting
patiently, while his housekeeper adjusted his grey plaid on his
shoulders in preparation for a long ride over the hills. His faithful
Barbara was doing her part protesting, but she was doing it carefully
and well.

"Such a day as it is!" said she. "Such a time of rain! Indeed, sir, I
canna think it right for you to go so far. Mightna ye just bide still
at home till they come to the kirkyard?"

But the minister shook his head. "I will need to go, Barbara. Think of
poor Allison Bain on this sorrowful day."

"Ay, poor Allie! I'm wae for her this sorrowful day, as ye say.
Greatly she'll need a good word spoken