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Pagina 119
... Ravenswood people , because she lived under them so many years . But I am sure she is grateful to you , sir , for your pro- tection , and that she would rather speak to you , than to any other person in the whole world beside . Do , sir ...
... Ravenswood people , because she lived under them so many years . But I am sure she is grateful to you , sir , for your pro- tection , and that she would rather speak to you , than to any other person in the whole world beside . Do , sir ...
Pagina 120
... Ravenswood , " answered the old dame , whose con- versation , though perfectly civil and respectful , seemed cautiously limited to the unavoidable and necessary task of replying to Sir William . T 1 " You are not ,, I should judge by ...
... Ravenswood , " answered the old dame , whose con- versation , though perfectly civil and respectful , seemed cautiously limited to the unavoidable and necessary task of replying to Sir William . T 1 " You are not ,, I should judge by ...
Pagina 121
... Ravenswood had received injuries sufficient to prompt him to that sort of revenge , which becomes a frequent though fearful consequence of the partial ad- ministration of justice . He endeavoured to disguise from Alice the nature of the ...
... Ravenswood had received injuries sufficient to prompt him to that sort of revenge , which becomes a frequent though fearful consequence of the partial ad- ministration of justice . He endeavoured to disguise from Alice the nature of the ...
Pagina 122
... Ravenswood family ; and that to drink of the waters of the well , or even approach its brink , was as ominous to a descendant of that house , as for a Grahame to wear green , a Bruce to kill a spider , or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on ...
... Ravenswood family ; and that to drink of the waters of the well , or even approach its brink , was as ominous to a descendant of that house , as for a Grahame to wear green , a Bruce to kill a spider , or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on ...
Pagina 123
... Ravenswood . " tinctly heard as they seemed to be reluctantly uttered , and , turning from them , was immediately lost in the thicket . 1 " The Master of Ravenswood ! " said the Lord Keeper , when he had recovered his momentary asto ...
... Ravenswood . " tinctly heard as they seemed to be reluctantly uttered , and , turning from them , was immediately lost in the thicket . 1 " The Master of Ravenswood ! " said the Lord Keeper , when he had recovered his momentary asto ...
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Allan ancient answered auld bairn Balderstone better betwixt Bucklaw Butler Caleb called canna Captain Dalgetty castle Covenanters Craigengelt Crossmyloof daughter David Deans dinna door Drumthwacket Duke of Argyle Dumbiedikes Edinburgh Effie eyes father favour fear feelings frae gang gentleman George Staunton gude hand Hayston head heard heart Highland honour hope horse Inverary Jeanie Deans Jeanie's Jedediah Cleishbotham Lady Ashton Laird Libberton look Lord Keeper Lord Menteith Lucy M'Aulay Madge mair Marquis Master of Ravenswood maun means ment Middleburgh mind Montrose muckle never night occasion ower person poor Porteous Ranald Ratcliffe replied Reuben Roseneath Saddletree Scotland Scottish seemed Sharpit Sharpitlaw Sir Duncan Sir William Ashton sister soldier speak Staunton suld sword tell thing thou thought tion tone turn voice weel whilk Wildfire Wolf's Crag woman word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.