Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyWaverley, 1898 - 464 sider |
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Alan Fairford Albert Albert Lee Alice answered Arthuret better betwixt Bletson called Cavalier Charles Colonel Everard Crackenthorp Cristal Nixon Cromwell danger Darsie Latimer Desborough devil Doctor Rochecliffe door England Ewart eyes father fear feelings followed Geddes gentleman Gilbert Pearson give gudesire hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven Herries Holdenough honor hope horse Jacobite James Wilkinson Joceline Joshua King King's King's Oak lady laird Lilias lodge look Lord Louis Kerneguy manner Markham Everard Master ment mind Nanty never night old knight party perhaps person Peter Peebles Phoebe poor present prince provost Quaker rapier recollection Redgauntlet replied Roundhead Scotland seemed Shepherd's Bush Sir Henry Lee soldier speak spirit Summertrees sword tell thee things thou art thou hast thought tion Tomkins tone trust turned uncle voice walk Wildrake Woodstock words yonder young
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Side 8 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Side 436 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers...
Side 103 - Laurie had walth o' gear — could hunt wi' the hound and rin wi' the hare — and be Whig or Tory, saunt or sinner, as the wind stood. He was a professor in this Revolution warld, but he liked an orra sough of this warld, and a tune on the pipes weel...
Side 169 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon, Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Side 308 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove...
Side 109 - ... world was like to regard him as a thief and a cheat, and he took that waur than even the ruin of his house and hauld. On he rode, little caring where. It was a dark night turned, and the trees made it yet darker, . and...
Side 107 - Troth, Sir John, there was naebody in the room but Dougal MacCallum the butler. But, as your honour kens, he has e'en followed his auld master.' 'Very unlucky again, Stephen,' said Sir John, without altering his voice a single note. 'The man to whom ye paid the money is dead — and the man who witnessed the payment is dead too — and the siller, which should have been to the fore, is neither seen nor heard tell of in the repositories. How am I to believe a
Side 108 - He paused, and then added mair sternly, "If I understand your trick, sir, you want to take advantage of some malicious reports concerning things in this family, and particularly respecting my father's sudden death, thereby to cheat me out of the money, and perhaps take away my character, by insinuating that I have received the rent I am demanding. Where do you suppose this money to be? I insist upon knowing.
Side 114 - ... cows. Steenie would have thought the whole was a dream, but he had the receipt in his hand fairly written and signed by the auld laird; only the last letters of his name were a little disorderly, written like one seized with sudden pain. Sorely troubled in his mind, he left that dreary place, rode through the mist to Redgauntlet Castle, and with much ado he got speech of the laird. "Well, you dyvour bankrupt," was the first word, "have you brought me my rent?" "No," answered my gudesire, "I have...
Side 111 - But, Lord take us in keeping, what a set of ghastly revellers they were that sat around that table! My gudesire kend mony that had long before gane to their place, for often had he piped to the most part in the hall of Redgauntlet. There was the fierce Middleton, and the dissolute Rothes, and the crafty Lauderdale; and Dalyell, with his bald head and a beard to his girdle; and Earlshall, with Cameron's blude on his hand; and wild Bonshaw, that tied blessed Mr.