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Side 14
... we have seen , the unfortunate Prince , at least as late as seventeen hundred and fifty- three , still looked with hope and expectation . 1st April , 1832 . REDGAUNTLET . LETTER I. - DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD 14 INTRODUCTION TO.
... we have seen , the unfortunate Prince , at least as late as seventeen hundred and fifty- three , still looked with hope and expectation . 1st April , 1832 . REDGAUNTLET . LETTER I. - DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD 14 INTRODUCTION TO.
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Walter Scott. REDGAUNTLET . LETTER I. - DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD . Dumfries . CUR me exanimas querelis tuis ... Latimer , and will not regard our purses as common , as well as our sentiments ? I am alone in the world ; my only ...
Walter Scott. REDGAUNTLET . LETTER I. - DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD . Dumfries . CUR me exanimas querelis tuis ... Latimer , and will not regard our purses as common , as well as our sentiments ? I am alone in the world ; my only ...
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... the acolytes of the Muses.- Vale , sis memor mei . D. L. P. S. - Direct to the Post - Office here . I shall leave orders to forward your letters wherever I may travel . LETTER II . - ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER . 20 REDGAUNTLET .
... the acolytes of the Muses.- Vale , sis memor mei . D. L. P. S. - Direct to the Post - Office here . I shall leave orders to forward your letters wherever I may travel . LETTER II . - ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER . 20 REDGAUNTLET .
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Walter Scott. LETTER II . - ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER . NEGATUR , my dear Darsie - you have logic and law enough to understand the word of denial . I deny your conclusion . The premises I admit , namely , that when I ... LATIMER. ...
Walter Scott. LETTER II . - ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER . NEGATUR , my dear Darsie - you have logic and law enough to understand the word of denial . I deny your conclusion . The premises I admit , namely , that when I ... LATIMER. ...
Side 13
... Latimer , sir , to see him begin his journey . " 66 " Darsie Latimer ? " he replied , in a softened tone- Humph ! -Well , I do not blame you for being kind to Darsie Latimer ; but it would have done as much good if you had walked with ...
... Latimer , sir , to see him begin his journey . " 66 " Darsie Latimer ? " he replied , in a softened tone- Humph ! -Well , I do not blame you for being kind to Darsie Latimer ; but it would have done as much good if you had walked with ...
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Side 88 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Side 129 - My gudesire's hair stood on end at this proposal, but he thought his companion might be some humoursome chield that was trying to frighten him, and might end with lending him the money. Besides, he was bauld wi' brandy, and desperate wi' distress; and he said he had courage to go to the gate of hell, and a step farther, for that receipt. The stranger laughed. Weel, they rode on through the thickest of the wood, when, all of a sudden, the horse stopped at the door of a great house; and, but that he...
Side 125 - Stephen,' said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice — * Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year's rent behind the hand — due at last term.' Stephen. ' Please your honour, Sir John, I paid it to your father.
Side 24 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Side 8 - ... this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to him were greatly alarmed: they imagined that this wench had been placed in his family by the English ministers ; and, considering her sister's situation, they seemed to have some ground for their suspicion ; wherefore, they despatched a gentleman to Paris,...
Side 123 - ... a stoup of brandy, and Hutcheon, who was something of a clerk, would have read a chapter of the Bible ; but Dougal would hear naething but a blaud of Davie Lindsay, whilk was the waur preparation. When midnight came, and the house was quiet as the grave, sure aneugh the silver whistle sounded as sharp and shrill as if Sir Robert was blowing it, and up gat the twa auld serving-men, and tottered into the room where the dead man lay.
Side 128 - ... a wild set in his day. At last they parted, and my gudesire was to ride hame through the wood of Pitmurkie, that is a' fou of black firs, as they say. — I ken the wood, but the firs may be black or white for what I can tell. — At the entry of the wood there is a wild common, and on the edge of the common, a little lonely change-house, that was keepit then by an...
Side 136 - Weel, then, the thing that was so like him," said my gudesire; "he spoke of my coming back to see him this time twelvemonth, and it's a weight on my conscience." "Aweel, then," said Sir John, "if you be so much distressed in mind, you may speak to our minister of the parish; he is a douce man, regards the honour of our family, and the mair that he may look for some patronage from me.
Side 130 - There was the Bluidy Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived...
Side 36 - A hard and harsh countenance; eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair; a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness, and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an ogre, completed this delightful portrait.