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WHAT'S MINE'S MINE

By George MacDonald

IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. I.






CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER

   I. HOW COME THEY THERE?
  II. A SHORT GLANCE OVER THE SHOULDER
 III. THE GIRLS' FIRST WALK
  IV. THE SHOP IN THE VILLAGE
   V. THE CHIEF
  VI. WORK AND WAGE
 VII. MOTHER AND SON
VIII. A MORNING CALL
  IX. MR. SERCOMBE
   X. THE PLOUGH-BULLS
  XI. THE FIR-GROVE
 XII. AMONG THE HILLS
XIII. THE LAKE
 XIV. THE WOLVES
  XV. THE GULF THAT DIVIDED
 XVI. THE CLAN CHRISTMAS
XVII. BETWEEN DANCING AND SUPPER






WHAT'S MINE'S MINE.

CHAPTER I.

HOW COME THEY THERE?


The room was handsomely furnished, but such as I would quarrel with
none for calling common, for it certainly was uninteresting. Not a
thing in it had to do with genuine individual choice, but merely
with the fashion and custom of the class to which its occupiers
belonged. It was a dining-room, of good size, appointed with all the
things a dining-room "ought" to have, mostly new, and entirely
expensive--mirrored sideboard in oak; heavy chairs, just the dozen,
in fawn- morocco seats and backs--the dining-room, in short,
of a London-house inhabited by rich middle-class people. A big fire
blazed in the low round-backed grate, whose flashes were reflected
