His Bloody Project

‘I cannot imagine that God has no greater concerns than trying us,’

I do not wish to portray my father as callous or unfeeling, nor do I doubt that his wife’s death grievously affected him. It is rather that he was better adapted to unhappiness, and that to no longer feel obliged to feign pleasure in this world came as a relief to him.

The reason you may not “see” the regulations is because there are no regulations, at least not in the way you seem to think. You might as well ask to see the air we breathe. Of course, there are regulations, but you cannot see them. The regulations exist because we all accept that they exist and without them there would be anarchy.

courteous and obliging young man

Clouds of flies flew up in a haze from the fetid surface water.

I saw no efficacy in such things, but understood that Jetta was privy to intimations from the Other World to which I was insensible.

Inverness has treated me with a degree of civility I in no way deserve.

Contents
Title Page
Epigraph
Preface
Statements by Residents of Culduie
Map of Culduie and the Surrounding Area
The Account of Roderick Macrae
Glossary
Medical Reports
Extract from Travels in the Border-Lands of Lunacy by J. Bruce Thomson
The Trial
Epilogue
Historical Notes and Acknowledgements
Also by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Copyright

The first gentleman then expressed the view that it was difficult to assist people who were so incapable of doing anything for themselves.

His father is likewise a feeble-minded individual, who conceals his idiocy behind a zealous adherence to scripture and a cringing deference to the minister.