Castle DangerousFrom Scott's introduction: "The incidents on which the ensuing Novel mainly turns, are derived from the ancient Metrical Chronicle of "The Brace, " by Archdeacon Barbour, and from the "History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, " by David Hume of Godscroft; and are sustained by the immemorial tradition of the western parts of Scotland. They are so much in consonance with the spirit and manners of the troubled age to which they are referred, that I can see no reason for doubting their being founded in fact; the names, indeed, of numberless localities in the vicinity of Douglas Castle, appear to attest, beyond suspicion, many even of the smallest circumstances embraced in the story of Godscroft." |
Contents
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Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 42 |
Section 4 | 51 |
Section 5 | 64 |
Section 6 | 89 |
Section 7 | 96 |
Section 8 | 109 |
Section 12 | 208 |
Section 13 | 217 |
Section 14 | 231 |
Section 15 | 248 |
Section 16 | 254 |
Section 17 | 258 |
Section 18 | 277 |
Section 19 | 288 |
Section 9 | 143 |
Section 10 | 174 |
Section 11 | 189 |
Section 20 | 330 |
Section 21 | 333 |
Section 22 | 336 |
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Page ix - As I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'-flower scents the dewy air, Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bower, And tells the midnight moon her care. The winds were laid, the air was still, The stars they shot alang the sky ; The fox was howling on the hill, And the distant-echoing glens reply.