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... ; and , however much they differed in church politics , preserved the most perfect harmony as private friends , and as clergymen serving the same cure . CHAPTER XIV . An Examination . MAJOR MELVILLE of Cairnvreckan 140 WAVERLEY .
... ; and , however much they differed in church politics , preserved the most perfect harmony as private friends , and as clergymen serving the same cure . CHAPTER XIV . An Examination . MAJOR MELVILLE of Cairnvreckan 140 WAVERLEY .
Page 141
sir Walter Scott (bart.) CHAPTER XIV . An Examination . MAJOR MELVILLE of Cairnvreckan , an elderly gentle- man , who had spent his youth in the military service , re- ceived Mr Morton with great kindness , and our hero with civility ...
sir Walter Scott (bart.) CHAPTER XIV . An Examination . MAJOR MELVILLE of Cairnvreckan , an elderly gentle- man , who had spent his youth in the military service , re- ceived Mr Morton with great kindness , and our hero with civility ...
Page 142
... Major Melville then commanded the villagers to return to their homes , excepting two , who officiated as con- stables , and whom he directed to wait below . The apart- ment was thus cleared of every person but Mr Morton , whom the Major ...
... Major Melville then commanded the villagers to return to their homes , excepting two , who officiated as con- stables , and whom he directed to wait below . The apart- ment was thus cleared of every person but Mr Morton , whom the Major ...
Page 143
... Major Melville , renders apologies superfluous . » True , sir ; permit me , therefore , to ask you how your time has been disposed of since you obtained leave of ab- sence from your regiment , several weeks ago , until the present ...
... Major Melville , renders apologies superfluous . » True , sir ; permit me , therefore , to ask you how your time has been disposed of since you obtained leave of ab- sence from your regiment , several weeks ago , until the present ...
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... Major Melville to con- scious guilt , while Mr Morton was rather disposed to construe it into the surprise of innocence unjustly sus- pected . There was something true in both conjectures ; for although Edward's mind acquitted him of ...
... Major Melville to con- scious guilt , while Mr Morton was rather disposed to construe it into the surprise of innocence unjustly sus- pected . There was something true in both conjectures ; for although Edward's mind acquitted him of ...
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Page 93 - Amen, amen ! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight: Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine.
Page 66 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall on the book while he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were, suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory ; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect, (for he was...
Page lvii - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Page 114 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it: Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ? " " I believe not,
Page lviii - You shall see him brought to bay; ' Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay! Tell them youth and mirth and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Page 31 - ... he had read, and stored in a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-arranged and miscellaneous information. In English literature he was master of Shakspeare and Milton, of our earlier dramatic authors ; of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical chronicles ; and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction...
Page 38 - was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess [those sitting above the salt-vat], instead of porridge, had a pullet with some prunes in the broth.