Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... present income is , thou knowest , more than sufficient for all my wants ; and yet thou - traitor as thou art to the cause of friendship - doest de- prive me of the pleasure of thy society , and sub- mittest , besides , to self - denial ...
... present income is , thou knowest , more than sufficient for all my wants ; and yet thou - traitor as thou art to the cause of friendship - doest de- prive me of the pleasure of thy society , and sub- mittest , besides , to self - denial ...
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... present . Were it not that I recollect my poor mother in her deep widow's weeds , with a countenance that never smiled but when she looked on me- and then , in such wan and woeful sort , as the sun when he glances through an April cloud ...
... present . Were it not that I recollect my poor mother in her deep widow's weeds , with a countenance that never smiled but when she looked on me- and then , in such wan and woeful sort , as the sun when he glances through an April cloud ...
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... present , are nevertheless more ca- pable of being realized , than your aspirations af- ter the Lord knows what . What says my fa- ther's proverb ? " Look to a gown of gold , and you will at least get a sleeve of it . " Such is my ...
... present , are nevertheless more ca- pable of being realized , than your aspirations af- ter the Lord knows what . What says my fa- ther's proverb ? " Look to a gown of gold , and you will at least get a sleeve of it . " Such is my ...
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... present state of the country , are absolutely chimerical . The Pretender is no more remembered in the Highlands , than if the poor gentleman were gathered to his hundred and eight fathers , whose portraits adorn the ancient walls of ...
... present state of the country , are absolutely chimerical . The Pretender is no more remembered in the Highlands , than if the poor gentleman were gathered to his hundred and eight fathers , whose portraits adorn the ancient walls of ...
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... motions at my own free disposal , con- tained a prohibitory clause , by which , reason none assigned , I was discharged , as I respected my present safety and future fortunes , from vi- siting LATIMER TO FAIRFORD . 43.
... motions at my own free disposal , con- tained a prohibitory clause , by which , reason none assigned , I was discharged , as I respected my present safety and future fortunes , from vi- siting LATIMER TO FAIRFORD . 43.
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Էջ 231 - Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?" said Sir Robert. " Zounds! if you are " My gudesire, with as gude a countenance as he could put on, made a leg, and placed the bag of money on the table wi' a dash, like a man that does something clever. The Laird drew it to him hastily — " Is it all here, Steenie, man ?" " Your honour will find it right,"' said my gudesire. " Here, Dougal," said the Laird, " gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt.
Էջ 247 - 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, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.* He sat apart from them all, and looked at them with a melancholy, haughty countenance; while the rest hallooed, and sung, and laughed, that the room rang.
Էջ 244 - 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.
Էջ 240 - 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.
Էջ 256 - although this vision of yours tends, on the whole, to my father's credit, as an honest man, that he should, even after his death, desire to see justice done to a poor man like you, yet you are sensible that ill-dispositioned men might make bad constructions upon it, concerning his soul's health. So, I think, we had better lay the haill dirdum on that ill-deedie creature, Major Weir, and say naething about your dream in the wood of Pitmurkie.
Էջ 232 - John and his father never gree'd weel. Sir John had been bred an advocate, and afterwards sat in the last Scots Parliament and voted for the Union, having gotten, it was thought, a rug of the compensations. If his father could have come out of his grave, he would have brained him for it on his awn hearthstane.
Էջ 254 - ... a red-hot chanter. But yet it may be true, Steenie ; and if the money cast up, I shall not know what to think of it. — But where shall we find the Cat's Cradle ? There are cats enough about the old house, but I think they kitten without the ceremony of bed or cradle.
Էջ 259 - Laird himsell, if no better. But Heaven kens the truth, whilk first came out by the minister's wife, after Sir John and her ain gudeman were baith in the moulds. And then, my gudesire, wha was failed in his limbs, but not in his judgment or memory — at least nothing to speak of — was obliged to tell the real narrative to his freends, for the credit of his good name. He might else have been charged for a warlock...
Էջ 251 - 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." My father's tongue was loosed of a suddenty, and he said aloud, "I refer mysell to God's pleasure, and not to yours.
Էջ 234 - it shall never break my service to Sir Robert; and I will answer his next whistle, so be you will stand by me, Hutcheon.' Hutcheon had nae will to the wark, but he had stood by Dougal in battle and broil, and he wad not fail him at this pinch; so...