The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes, Volume 4R. Cadell, 1850 |
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... means of bringing out the story - afforded considerable facilities to the author . The whole of Europe was , during the fifteenth century , convulsed with dissentions from such various causes , that it would have required almost a ...
... means of bringing out the story - afforded considerable facilities to the author . The whole of Europe was , during the fifteenth century , convulsed with dissentions from such various causes , that it would have required almost a ...
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... means of re - establishing peace and friendship betwixt France and Burgundy . " " Be that at God's pleasure , " said the King . " It is not for dread of thy master's arms , but for the sake of peace only , that I return so temperate an ...
... means of re - establishing peace and friendship betwixt France and Burgundy . " " Be that at God's pleasure , " said the King . " It is not for dread of thy master's arms , but for the sake of peace only , that I return so temperate an ...
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... means to ruffle it with the best . But , when such chains as these bind not the tongue from wagging too freely , my gossip , L'Hermite , hath an amulet for the throat , which never fails to work a certain cure . And now attend . No man ...
... means to ruffle it with the best . But , when such chains as these bind not the tongue from wagging too freely , my gossip , L'Hermite , hath an amulet for the throat , which never fails to work a certain cure . And now attend . No man ...
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... means of her whose birth , beauty , and large posses- sions , rendered such an ambitious consummation by no means impossible , even in the eyes of a less sanguine projector , could the views of Louis XI . have been left out of the ...
... means of her whose birth , beauty , and large posses- sions , rendered such an ambitious consummation by no means impossible , even in the eyes of a less sanguine projector , could the views of Louis XI . have been left out of the ...
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... means to win and wed , without more than a hint on our part . The Duke of Burgundy will then have such a thorn in his side , as no lancet of our time will easily cut out from his flesh . The Boar of Ardennes , whom he has already ...
... means to win and wed , without more than a hint on our part . The Duke of Burgundy will then have such a thorn in his side , as no lancet of our time will easily cut out from his flesh . The Boar of Ardennes , whom he has already ...
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Page 382 - I am not done with thee. HERE we do nothing for nothing ; and you must return on this very day twelvemonth, to pay your master the homage that you owe me for my protection.
Page 381 - But there may be some under the earth," said the stranger. "Come, I'll be frank wi' you; I could lend you the money on bond, but you would maybe scruple my terms. Now, I can tell you, that your auld Laird is disturbed in his grave by your curses, and the wailing of your family, and if ye daur venture to go to see him, he will give you the receipt.
Page 381 - 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 knew the place was ten miles off, my father would have thought he was at Redgauntlet Castle. They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding...
Page 378 - We had lived on the grund, and under the Redgauntlets, since the riding days, and lang before. It was a pleasant bit; and I think the air is callerer and fresher there than ony where else in the country. It's a...
Page 380 - So am I, Stephen," said his honour ; " and so are all the folks in the house, I hope. But if there be a knave amongst us, it must be he that tells the story he cannot prove." 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...
Page 352 - He was perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened, by the advance of age. All his motions spoke strength unabated ; and, though rather undersized, he had very broad shoulders, was square-made, thin-flanked, and apparently combined in his frame muscular strength and activity ; the last somewhat impaired perhaps by years, but the first remaining in full vigour. A hard and harsh countenance — eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows,...
Page 382 - Redgauntlet, in the midst of a' this fearful riot, cried, wi' a voice like thunder, on Steenie Piper to come to the board-head where he was sitting, his legs stretched out before him, and swathed up with flannel, with his holster pistols aside him, while the great broadsword rested against his chair, just as my gudesire had seen him the last time upon earth — the very cushion for the jackanape was close to him, but the creature...
Page 382 - Douglas, the twiceturned traitor baith to country and king. 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, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade...
Page 381 - I have nae heart to mirth or speaking; and if ye want to ken the road, I scarce ken it mysell." "If you will tell me your grief...
Page 382 - There was a deep morning fog on grass and gravestane around him, and his horse was feeding quietly beside the minister's twa 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...