 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 622 pages
...when a shepherd called his dog, by the name of Hatty, and when a female domestic called upon Mauttge, the cat. These, he concluded, were invocations of...three months had elapsed, the lawsuit was decided in favor of Lord Traqnair ; and Will was directed to set the president at liberty. Accordingly, he entered... | |
 | Walter Scott - English Literature - 1900 - 618 pages
...shepherd called his dog, by the name of /•'<••',' '/, and when a female domestic called upon Mavdge, the cat. These, he concluded, were invocations of spirits ; for he held himself to lie in the dungeon of a sorcerer. At length, after three months had elapsed, the lawsuit was decided... | |
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Meanwhile, the poor president spent a heavy time in the vault of the castle. He was imprisoned, and solitary ; receiving his food through an aperture in the wall, and never hearing the sound of a human voice, save when a shepherd called his dog, by the... 
