By L. M. MONTGOMERY

Author of “Anne’s House of Dreams,” “Rainbow Valley,"
“Rilla of Ingleside,” etc.

Transcriber’s Note:

This book has been put on-line as part of the BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative at the Celebration of Women Writers through the combined work of Elizabeth Morton and Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Reformatted by Ben Crowder

TO MY COUSIN

Beatrice A. McIntyre

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

“Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace, But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny’s face; As still was her look, and as still was her ee, As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea, Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Such beauty bard may never declare, For there was no pride nor passion there; . . . . . . . . . . . . . Her seymar was the lily flower, And her cheek the moss-rose in the shower; And her voice like the distant melodye That floats along the twilight sea.” — The Queen’s Wake JAMES HOGG

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH

CHAPTER II. A LETTER OF DESTINY

CHAPTER III. THE MASTER OF LINDSAY SCHOOL

CHAPTER IV. A TEA TABLE CONVERSATION

CHAPTER V. A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT

CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF KILMENY

CHAPTER VII. A ROSE OF WOMANHOOD

CHAPTER VIII. AT THE GATE OF EDEN

CHAPTER IX. THE STRAIGHT SIMPLICITY OF EVE

CHAPTER X. A TROUBLING OF THE WATERS

CHAPTER XI. A LOVER AND HIS LASS

CHAPTER XII. A PRISONER OF LOVE

CHAPTER XIII. A SWEETER WOMAN NE’ER DREW BREATH

CHAPTER XIV. IN HER SELFLESS MOOD

CHAPTER XV. AN OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR-OFF THING

CHAPTER XVI. DAVID BAKER’S OPINION

CHAPTER XVII. A BROKEN FETTER

CHAPTER XVIII. NEIL GORDON SOLVES HIS OWN PROBLEM

CHAPTER XIX. VICTOR FROM VANQUISHED ISSUES

KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD