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DONAL GRANT
BY
GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D.
1905 edition
CHAPTER I.
FOOT-FARING.
It was a lovely morning in the first of summer. Donal Grant was
descending a path on a hillside to the valley below--a sheep-track of
which he knew every winding as well as any boy his half-mile to and
from school. But he had never before gone down the hill with the
feeling that he was not about to go up again. He was on his way to
pastures very new, and in the distance only negatively inviting. But his

heart was too full to be troubled--nor was his a heart to harbour a care,
the next thing to an evil spirit, though not quite so bad; for one care
may drive out another, while one devil is sure to bring in another.
A great billowy waste of mountains lay beyond him, amongst which
played the shadow at their games of hide and seek--graciously merry in
the eyes of the happy man, but sadly solemn in the eyes of him in
whose heart the dreary thoughts of the past are at a like game. Behind
Donal lay a world of dreams into which he dared not turn and look, yet
from which he could scarce avert his eyes.
He was nearing the foot of the hill when he stumbled and almost fell,
but recovered himself with the agility of a mountaineer, and the
unpleasant knowledge that the sole of one of his shoes was all but off.
Never had he left home for college that his father had not made
personal inspection of his shoes to see that they were fit for the journey,
but on this departure they had been forgotten. He sat down and took off
the failing equipment. It was too far gone to do anything temporary
with it; and of discomforts a loose sole to one's shoe in walking is of
the worst. The only thing was to take off the other shoe and both
stockings and go barefoot. He tied all together with a piece of string,
made them fast to his deerskin knapsack, and resumed his walk. The
thing did not trouble him much. To have what we want is riches, but to
be able to do without is