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Excerpt from Pharais: A Romance of the Isles
T was midway in the seventh month of her great joy that the child moved, while a rapture leaped to her heart, within the womb of Lora, daughter of the dead Norman Maclean, minister of Inhiston. In the Outer Isles.
On the same eve the cruel sorrow came to her that had lain waiting in the dark place beyond the sunrise.
Alastair, her so dearly beloved, had gone, three days earlier, by the Western Isles steamer to the port of Greenock, thence to fare to Glasgow, to learn from a great professor of medicine con cerning that which so troubled him both by reason of what the islesmen whispered among themselves, and for what he felt of his own secret pain and apprehension.voyage.
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