カトリオーナのあらすじ

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A rich young laird meets a Highland girl

   The story opens on August 25, 1751, in Edinburgh. David Balfour steps out of the bank with a porter carrying his gold, only days after he was a ragged fugitive. He has won back his estate of Shaws, so he buys plain clothes and a sword he cannot use.

   Rain drives him under an archway, and he watches soldiers march a tall prisoner into a house. Outside wait a girl in a Drummond plaid and two ragged Highland lads, with half a farthing between them to buy the prisoner snuff. David stares at her like a fool, then steps up to explain himself.

   She gives her name as Catriona Drummond, because her true name, Macgregor, has been forbidden for over a hundred years. The prisoner is her father, James More. David gives her servant Neil sixpence for the snuff. In this one street scene the book ties its main knot, a young man of honest purpose drawn toward the daughter of a man his duty will oppose. A small kindness to a stranger can bind you to people whose quarrel you never chose.

2. 2

   The Advocate wants his silence, not his word

   Stewart the Writer sits at the top of fifteen flights of stairs.

   無料で読書を始めます
3. 3

   Three pressures try to bend his conscience

   On Sunday David meets James More himself, tall, restless and full of grand talk.

   無料で読書を始めます
4. 4

   Alan sails and David is taken on the sands

   The Advocate suddenly says David's testimony will be accepted.

   無料で読書を始めます
5. 5

   A prisoner on the Bass hears a warlock's tale

   David's captors take him by night to the Bass Rock, a huge crag in the sea where gannets scream along the cliffs.

   無料で読書を始めます
6. 6

   Too late for the trial, but not for the truth

   On the twenty-first, the day of the trial, David lies on a hillside in misery.

   無料で読書を始めます
7. 7

   Edinburgh society, a prison escape and a ship

   For roughly three months David grows increasingly familiar with the Advocate and his household.

   無料で読書を始めます
8. 8

   Honour is tested against power and prudence

   Duty is the book's first great theme, and it is never simple.

   無料で読書を始めます
9. 9

   Love is slowed by pride and clumsy speech

   The second theme is love, and it moves like a sailing boat against the wind.

   無料で読書を始めます
10. 10

    A boy's own voice, comic and sharp-eyed

    The whole book is told by David, looking back as an older man.

    無料で読書を始めます