![]() Drummond fled the country.īrokenhearted, the laird died not long after. That night he was mysteriously murdered, and his friend Thomas Drummond was assumed to be the murderer. ![]() One night after securing victory against his brother in the courts, George celebrated with his friends at a tavern. ![]() ![]() The dispute between the two played out in the town and its environs at one point George swore he saw his brother’s spectral presence in a hazy cloud atop a mountain. Robert began to haunt the steps of George, his brother, and George could not escape his presence and had to withdraw into private. The dark and bitter Robert grew up nursing an intense hatred of his father and brother, and considered them enemies of himself and God. His mother and the Reverend Robert Wringhim, a strict and passionate spiritual adviser to Rabina, raised the second son, Robert. ![]() Their strained marriage did result in two sons, but the laird would only recognize the firstborn, George. The Laird of Dalcastle married Rabina, a woman whose piety tended toward zealotry and fanaticism. The novel begins with the Editor’s Narrative, in which he tells the story as he knows it before introducing the manuscript. ![]()
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