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LOVE ME, OR LOVE ME NOT

NEW NOVEL AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.

MALCOLM.

BY GEORGE MAC DONALD.

Second Edition.

Three Vols.

'Mr. Mac Donald has not only put into his (Malcolm's) mouth much of the fine poetry of which the book is full, but has also given to his part active and passive heroism of the most romantic kind.

Of

the other characters, Duncan, the aged and blind Highland piper, is admirably drawn. The intensity of his love and hate, of his pride and prejudice, is brought out with the utmost vividness in his relations with Malcolm and his master. . . . . But these few and slight blemishes are lost in the host of beautiful images with which Mr. Mac Donald delights his readers.'-Pall Mall Gazette.

HENRY S. KING & CO.

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HENRY S. KING & CO.

65 CORNHILL, AND 12 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

1875

251. b. lsa

LOVE ME, OR LOVE ME NOT.

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CHAPTER I.

'A maid whom there were none to praise,
And very few to love.'

RATHER narrow room, with gaily
painted Scripture prints, big-lettered

texts, and faded maps adorning the dingy buff walls, a shabby bookcase and oldfashioned desk flanking the fireplace on either side, some forms and a sprinkling of high stools ranged against the wooden wainscoting, dirty slates, copy-books, and primers littered about two long deal tables.

These, with two or three round faced children in blue-check pinafores and an elder girl in a brown-print gown, made up the scene

VOL. I.

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