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Alice ancient answered Bucklaw apartment appearance auld better betwixt bride BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR Caleb Balderstone called Captain Craigengelt character Colonel Ashton countenance Craigie Dame daughter Dick domestic exclaimed expression eyes father favour fear feelings frae gentleman give Gourlay gude guests hand Hayston hear heard honour hope horse House of Peers Jacobite Jedediah Cleishbotham kinsman Lady Ashton leave Lockhard look Lord Keeper Lord Ravenswood Lord Stair lordship Lucy Lucy's madam Marquis Master of Ravens Master of Ravenswood maun mind Miss Ashton mother Mysie never night noble occasion ower passions person present Ravenswood Castle received recollection returned ride Scotland Scottish seemed Sir William Ashton speak spirit stranger suld suppose sure sword tell thought Tinto tion tone tower turned village voice weel Wolf's Crag Wolf's-hope woman wood word young Ravenswood
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Page 317 - It grows late, and a night-cowl of good claret is worth all the considering-caps in Europe." CHAPTER XXIX It was the copy of our conference. In bed she slept not, for my urging it; At board she fed not, for my urging it; Alone, it was the subject of my theme ; In company I often glanced at it. Comedy of Errors.
Page 269 - Crag, remained there accordingly, to give meeting to his noble kinsman. CHAPTER XXIV. Hamlet. Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave making? Horatio. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
Page vii - If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Page 364 - At length the social party broke up at a late hour, and the gentlemen crowded into the saloon, where, enlivened by wine and the joyful occasion, they laid aside their swords, and handed their impatient partners to the floor. The music already rung from the gallery, along the fretted roof of the ancient
Page 379 - those around her, she did not evince the slightest symptom either of repentance or remorse. In all external appearance she bore the same bold,, haughty, unbending, character which she had displayed before these: unhappy events. A splendid marble monument records Her name, titles, and virtues, while her victims remain, undistinguished by tomb or epitaph.
Page vii - swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Page 347 - and deranged by hard riding. He had a sword by his side, and pistols in his belt. His slouched hat, which he had not removed at entrance, gave an additional gloom to his dark features, which, wasted by sorrow, and marked by the ghastly look communicated by long illness, added to a countenance naturally somewhat stern and wild, a
Page 11 - of modern art were invited to visit without delay. So ended Dick Tinto—a lamentable proof of the great truth that in the fine arts mediocrity is not permitted, and that he who cannot ascend to the very top of the ladder, will do well not to put his foot upon it at all!
Page 215 - superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaided: mantle, with her long hair escaping partly from the snood and. falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea, of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain. But Ravenswood only saw a female exquisitely beautiful; and rendered yet
Page 362 - by moonlight ower North-Berwick Law." " What's that ye say about witches, ye damned hags ? " said Johnny Mortsheugh; "are ye casting yer cantrips in the very kirkyard, to mischieve the bride and bridegroom ? Get awa hame, for if I tak my souple t'ye, I'll gar ye find the road faster than ye wad like.