Redgauntlet. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... usual , at the back of my father's chair , upright as a wooden sentinel at the door of a puppet - show . " You may go down , James , ” said my father ; and exit Wilkinson . - What is to come next ? thought I ; for the weather is not ...
... usual , at the back of my father's chair , upright as a wooden sentinel at the door of a puppet - show . " You may go down , James , ” said my father ; and exit Wilkinson . - What is to come next ? thought I ; for the weather is not ...
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... usual sarcasm , touching the humour of walking in shoes at twenty shillings a pair . But I answered with composure , that I had ridden out to dinner as far as Noble - House . He started , ( you know his way , ) as if I had said that I ...
... usual sarcasm , touching the humour of walking in shoes at twenty shillings a pair . But I answered with composure , that I had ridden out to dinner as far as Noble - House . He started , ( you know his way , ) as if I had said that I ...
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... befell me yesterday ; though I am sure you will , as usual , turn the opposite end of the spy - glass on my poor narrative and reduce , more tuo , to the most petty trivialities , the circumstan- LATIMER TO FAIRFord . 45.
... befell me yesterday ; though I am sure you will , as usual , turn the opposite end of the spy - glass on my poor narrative and reduce , more tuo , to the most petty trivialities , the circumstan- LATIMER TO FAIRFord . 45.
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... usual in her apparent rank- an advantage which was counterbalanced by a very forbidding aspect . But the most singular part of her attire , in this very Protestant country , was a rosary , in which the smaller beads were black oak , and ...
... usual in her apparent rank- an advantage which was counterbalanced by a very forbidding aspect . But the most singular part of her attire , in this very Protestant country , was a rosary , in which the smaller beads were black oak , and ...
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... usual arrange- ment of pewter and earthenware , which was most strictly and critically clean , glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment . In a recess , formed by the small bow of a latticed window , was ...
... usual arrange- ment of pewter and earthenware , which was most strictly and critically clean , glanced back the flame of the lamp merrily from one side of the apartment . In a recess , formed by the small bow of a latticed window , was ...
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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...