A Tillyloss Scandal by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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J. M. Barrie

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860--1937) was a novelist and playwright born and educated in Scotland. After moving to London, he authored several successful novels and plays. While there, Barrie befriended the Llewelyn Davies family and its five boys, and it was this friendship that inspired him to write about a boy with magical abilities, first in his adult novel The Little White Bird and then later in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 play. Now an iconic character of children's literature, Peter Pan first appeared in book form in the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, about the whimsical adventures of the eternal boy who could fly and his ordinary friend Wendy Darling.

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The Complete Works of

J. M. BARRIE

VOLUME 11 OF 54

A Tillyloss Scandal

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

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‘A Tillyloss Scandal’

J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition (in 54 parts)

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J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition

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J. M. BARRIE

IN 54 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Auld Licht Idylls

2, Better Dead

3, When a Man’s Single

4, A Window in Thrums

5, The Little Minister

6, Sentimental Tommy

7, Tommy and Grizel

8, The Little White Bird

9, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

10, Peter and Wendy

The Novellas

11, A Tillyloss Scandal

12, Farewell Miss Julie Logan

The Short Story Collections

13, A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches

14, Two of Them

15, Echoes of the War

The Plays

16, Ibsen’s Ghost

17, Walker, London

18, Jane Annie

19, The Professor’s Love Story

20, The Little Minister

21, The Wedding Guest

22, Quality Street

23, The Admirable Crichton

24, Little Mary

25, Peter Pan – the Original Play

26, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

27, What Every Woman Knows

28, Old Friends

29, When Wendy Grew Up – an Afterthought

30, Pantaloon

31, The Twelve-Pound Look

32, Rosalind

33, The Will

34, Half an Hour

35, The New Word

36, A Kiss for Cinderella

37, Seven Women

38, Der Tag

39, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

40, Dear Brutus

41, A Well-Remembered Voice

42, Mary Rose

43, Shall We Join the Ladies?

44, Barbara’s Wedding

45, The Boy David

The Non-Fiction

46, An Edinburgh Eleven

47, My Lady Nicotine

48, The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island

49, Charles Frohman: A Tribute

50, Neither Dorking nor the Abbey

51, M’connachie and J. M. B.

52, Preface to the Young Visiters

The Memoirs

53, Margaret Ogilvy

54, The Greenwood Hat

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A Tillyloss Scandal

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER I.

IN WHICH WE APPROACH HAGGART, HAT IN HAND.

According to those who have thought the thing over, it would defy the face of clay to set forth this prodigious affair of Tillyloss, the upshot of which was that Tammas Haggart became a humorist. It happened so far hack as the Long Year, so called by reason of disease in the potato crop; and doubtless the house, which still stands, derides romance to those who cavil at an outside stair. Furthermore, the many who only knew Haggart in his later years, whether personally or through written matter or from Thrums folk who have traveled, will not readily admit that he may once have been an every-day man. There is also against me the vexing practice of the farmer of Lookaboutyou, who never passes Tillyloss, if there is a friend of mine within earshot, without saying:

Gravestane or no gravestane, Tammas Haggart would have been a humorist.

Look about you thus implies that he knew Haggart for a man of parts when the rest of us were blind, and it is tantalizing beyond ordinary to see his word accepted in this matter by people who would not pay him for a drill of potatoes without first stepping it to make sure of the length.

I have it from Tammas Haggart that until the extraordinary incident occurred which I propose telling as he dropped it into my mouth, he was such a man as myself. True, he was occasionally persuaded by persons of Lookabout you’s stamp to gloss over this admission, as incredible on the face of it, but that was in his last years, when he had become something of a show, and was in a puzzle about himself. Of the several reasons he gave me in proof of a non-humorous period in his life the following seem worthy of especial attention: —

First, that for some years after his marriage he had never thought of himself as more nicely put together than other men. He could not say for certain whether he had ever thought of himself at all,