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Title: A Lost Lady of Old Years
Date of first publication: 1899
Author: John Buchan (1875-1940)
Date first posted: November 5 2012
Date last updated: November 5 2012
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A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
_A Romance_
BY JOHN BUCHAN
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK
1899
_By the Same Author_
JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
GREY WEATHER
SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS
SCHOLAR GIPSIES
_Copyright, 1899_
BY JOHN LANE
_All rights reserved_
TO
DUNCAN GRANT WARRAND
MY DEAR DUNCAN:
To you, the well-read historian, there is little need to say that every
event in this tale is not recorded for gospel. It is the story of the
bleak side of the Forty-five, of goodness without wisdom, of wisdom
first cousin to vice, of those who, like a certain Lord, had no virtue
but an undeniable greatness. You will ask my authority for Francis’s
mission to Lovat,–or the singular conduct of Mr. John Murray. You will
inquire how the final execution came six months too soon, and you will
ransack Broughton’s _Journal_ in vain to find my veracious narrative of
the doings of his beautiful wife. Such little matters are the
chronicler’s licence. But some excuse is needed for the introduction of
your kinsman, the lord President, and the ragged picture of so choice a
character. My apology must be that my canvas is no place for honest men,
and the Laird of Culloden would have been discredited by his company.
But, such as it is, I dedicate to you this chronicle of moorland wars,
for the sake of an “auld Highland story” which neither of us would wish
to see forgotten.
J. B.
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