The Portent and Other Stories
George MacDonald's comprehensive work on fundamental Christian theology and spiritual discipline.
27 Chapters
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER I: My father belonged to the widespread family of the Campbells, and
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CHAPTER II: One summer evening, I had lingered longer than usual in my rocky
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CHAPTER III: I was now almost nineteen. I had completed the usual curriculum of
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CHAPTER IV: As my father accompanied me to the door, where the gig, which was to
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CHAPTER V: When the bell rang for dinner, I managed to find my way to the
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CHAPTER VI: After making arrangements for commencing work in the morning, I took my
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CHAPTER VII: One day, a week after his arrival, Lord Hilton gave a dinner-party to
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CHAPTER VIII: One night I was sitting in my room, devouring an old romance which I
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CHAPTER IX: While I hesitated, Nature had her own way, and, with a deep-drawn sigh,
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CHAPTER X: When the morning came, I began to doubt whether my wakefulness had not
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CHAPTER XI: One day, exactly three weeks after her last visit to my room, as I was
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CHAPTER XII: Day followed day, the one the child of the other. Alice's old paleness
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CHAPTER XIII: I laid myself on the couch she had left, but not to sleep. A new pulse
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CHAPTER XIV: Again seven days passed before she revisited me. Indeed, her visits had
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CHAPTER XV: But now she returned once more into the usual routine of the family. I
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CHAPTER XVI: Time passed. We began to feel very secure in that room, watched as it
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CHAPTER XVII: I was now Captain Campbell, of the Scotch Greys, contriving to live on
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CHAPTER XVIII: I made the journey by easy stages, chiefly on the back of a favourite
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CHAPTER XIX: The fog cleared off; and, as the hills began to throw long, lazy
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CHAPTER XX: Early in the forenoon, I came in sight of the cottage of Margaret. It
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CHAPTER XXI: It was a dark, drizzling night when I arrived at the little village of
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CHAPTER XXII: It was a lovely morning in autumn. I walked to the Hall. I entered at
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CHAPTER XXIII: Once more I was left alone in that room of dark oak, looking out on the
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CHAPTER XXIV: It was with considerable anxiety that I repaired to Mrs. Blakesley's
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CHAPTER XXV: But this way of breaking into the house every night did not afford me
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CHAPTER XXVI: It was time, however, to lay some plan, and make some preparations, for
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CHAPTER XXVII: Honest Wood joined us in the course of a week or two, and has continued