Hope Mirrlees 
Lud-in-the-Mist (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) [EPUB ebook] 

Contents

I. Master Nathaniel Chanticleer1

II. The Duke Who Laughed Himself Off a Throne and Other Traditions of Dorimare7

III. The Beginning of Trouble14

IV. Endymion Leer Prescribes for Ranulph25

V. Ranulph Goes to the Widow Gibberty’s Farm36

VI. The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms47

VII .Master Ambrose Chases a Wild Goose and Has a Vision56

VIII. Endymion Leer Looks Frightened, and a Breach Is Made in an Old 

Friendship63

IX. Panic and the Silent People72

X. Hempie’s Song77

XI. A Stronger Antidote Than Reason83

XII. Dame Marigold Hears the Tap of a Woodpecker87

XIII. What Master Nathaniel and Master Ambrose Found in the Guildhall95

XIV. Dead in the Eye of the Law104

XV. ‘Ho, Ho, Hoh!’107

XVI. The Widow Gibberty’s Trial111

XVII. The World-in-Law115

XVIII. Mistress Ivy Peppercorn120

XIX. The Berries of Merciful Death129

XX. Watching the Cows133

XXI. The Old Goatherd141

XXII. Who Is Portunus?145

XXIII. The Northern Firebox and Dead Men’s Tales153

XXIV. Belling the Cat159

XXV. The Law Crouches and Springs164

XXVI. ‘Neither Trees Nor Men’167

XXVII. The Fair in the Elfin Marches173

XXVIII. ‘By the Sun, Moon and Stars and the Golden Apples of the West’180

XXIX. A Message Comes to Hazel and the First Swallow to Dame Marigold183

XXX. Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow189

XXXI. The Initiate193

XXXII. Conclusion195

Biographical Timeline197

Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British author of novels and poems, whose three novels are Lud-in-the-Mist, Madeleine, and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. She was one of the Bloomsbury Group and counted among her literary friends T. S. Eliot, André Gide, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats.