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testify in your favour. But we are aware there has been, at times, a sort of bastard and fiery zeal in some of your order, and those, men irreproachable in other points, which has led them into doing and countenancing great irregularities, by which the peace of the country is liable to be shaken.—I will deal plainly with you. I am not at all satisfied with this story, of your setting out again and again to seek your dwelling by two several roads, which were both circuitous. And, to be frank, no one whom we have examined on this unhappy affair could trace in your appearance any thing like your acting under compulsion. Moreover, the waiters at the Cowgate Port observed something like the trepidation of guilt in your conduct, and declare that you were the first to command them to open the gate, in a tone of authority, as if still presiding over the guards and outposts of the rabble, who had besieged them the whole night.” “God forgive them!” said Butler; “I only asked free passage for myself; they must have much misunderstood, if they did not wilfully misrepresent me.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian 184 “Well, Mr. Butler,” resumed the magistrate, “I am inclined to judge the best and hope the best, as I am sure I wish the best; but you must be frank with me, if you wish to secure my good opinion, and lessen the risk of inconvenience to yourself. You have allowed you saw another individual in your passage through the King’s Park to Saint Leonard’s Crags—I must know every word which passed betwixt you.” Thus closely pressed, Butler, who had no reason for concealing what passed at that meeting, unless because Jeanie Deans was concerned in it, thought it best to tell the whole truth from beginning to end. “Do you suppose,” said the magistrate, pausing, “that the young woman will accept an invitation so mysterious?” “I fear she will,” replied Butler. “Why do you use the word fear it?” said the magistrate. “Because I am apprehensive for her safety, in meeting at such a time and place, one who had something of the manner of a desperado, and whose message was of a character so inexplicable.”
“Her safety shall be cared for,” said the magistrate. “Mr. Butler, I am concerned I cannot immediately discharge you from confinement, but I hope you will not be long detained.—Remove Mr. Butler, and let him be provided with decent accommodation in all respects.” He was conducted back to the prison accordingly; but, in the food offered to him, as well as in the apartment in which he was lodged, the recommendation of the magistrate was strictly attended to. Sir Walter Scott 185 CHAPTER THIRTEENTH Dark and eerie was the night, And lonely was the way, As Janet, wi’ her green mantell, To Miles’ Cross she did gae. Old Ballad. LEAVING BUTLER to all the uncomfortable thoughts attached to his new situation, among which the most predominant was his feeling that he was, by his confinement, deprived of all possibility of assisting the family at St. Leonard’s in their greatest need, we return to Jeanie Deans, who had seen him depart, without an opportunity of farther explanation, in all that agony of mind with which the female heart bids adieu to the complicated sensations so well described by Coleridge,—
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THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN By Walter
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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 A
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THE HEART OF Sir Walter Scott 5 MID
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“The Heart of Mid-Lothian,” in
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censure of these industrious litera
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was given to many children, in piou
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There’s a bloodhound ranging Tinw
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of it.” “I do not think that th
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part of its remarks. The Reviewer f
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may meet with a purchaser: unless (
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with impartiality. For, O ye powers
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disengaged countenance. She said,
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ney to London, but found this nearl
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part of a century, uniformly acknow
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colouring. But that which gratifies
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newspapers, having succeeded in dis
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“O, true, Mr. Dunover,” said on
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“Poor man!” echoed Halkit—
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secret view to my present task),
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etween indignation at the undeserve
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monarch, who, after having commence
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tence. During a brief gleam of hope
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THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN CHAPTER FIR
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victed was of a description calcula
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judged necessary; and such was the
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ceived their meaning, or whose thou
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sent him to serve in the corps long
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and a hook at the back of the hatch
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who favoured him. These internal em
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He sprung from the scaffold, snatch
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CHAPTER THIRD “The hour’s come,
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tive for which those under whose au
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taken to repress it. But the shout
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face against law and gospel, and le
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five minutes sooner, before Wilson
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“Ay, and then the lusty banquetin
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cloth for his sorrel horse will be
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the sound of the words, “ye said
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she behoved to come and speak to Mr
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Mr. Butler wad ken her father, or s
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CHAPTER FIFTH But up then raise all
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wards a ponderous key of about two
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tempts. The rioters, who seemed to
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out to the support of their sentine
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ing the persons, of the rioters. Ev
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sented against them. One of their o
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past. Some of his friends, however,
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A place of concealment so obvious t
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guished by the name of Madge Wildfi
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moved forward with a slow and deter
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its completion. Butler, then, at th
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and as most of the Scottish nobilit
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which storms had detached from the
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when wine and cavalierism predomina
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On the very term-day when their eje
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naething but to tell me that ye can
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created some intimacy between the f
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to have been balanced by the circum
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ing to the practice of Columella an
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of sense and observation, the const
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among the poorer students of divini
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Mr. Deans, with a gravity that seem
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Sir Walter Scott to her fathers; an
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to call at Saint Leonard’s just s
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trees or cabbages which she had lef
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most pertinacious of starers produc
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Page 135 and 136: “And so I might, Jeanie,” conti
Page 137 and 138: And she kept her vow for a week, du
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Page 141 and 142: At length, when Mrs. Saddletree’s
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Page 147 and 148: “I have business here,” said th
Page 149 and 150: “Who or what are you,” replied
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Page 161 and 162: “You are,” said Butler, “what
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Page 169 and 170: So saying, and as if fatigued, both
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Page 173 and 174: with what speed he might, for it ha
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Page 177 and 178: There was something in this exquisi
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Page 181 and 182: “Just the post of under-turnkey,
Page 183: Wildfire, at whose name the magistr
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Page 189 and 190: draps o’ milk, and our bits o’
Page 191 and 192: It was not either in the nature or
Page 193 and 194: CHAPTER FOURTEENTH The spirit I hav
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Page 199 and 200: “D—n!” muttered the man; and,
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Page 203 and 204: The person who sung kept a strained
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Page 211 and 212: “Wi’ a’ my heart, Ratton. Gre
Page 213 and 214: “That wad gar me greet,” said M
Page 215 and 216: was a sufficient motive for taking
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Page 221 and 222: Ratcliffe, who was not trusted with
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Page 227 and 228: CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH You have paid t
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Page 231 and 232: “Is it only you, and be d—d to
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y an old woman of the lower rank, e
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daughter had never seen Jock Porteo
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“Hear till her,” said Madge.
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ties, for what a violent and overma
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inding obligation of our national v
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what hae the wicked beyond the brea
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court held under the authority of t
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casion, although too young to be a
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CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH To man, in this
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oken-hearted. His mind, as the pict
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The double-dealing of Ratcliffe in
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must have been to find her sister u
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ut this awfu’ dispensation had ne
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“I fancy,” said Ratcliffe, with
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“I do believe,” said Jeanie,
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“Mr. Novit,” he said, “was to
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with disgust, when the affectionate
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of this nature, and how seldom, unl
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that of the sister-country) not onl
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST We have strict
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to prevent such enormities, their o
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that the father of this infant now
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in this general joy, since, I know,
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the eloquence of maternal affection
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to bear witness against himself, it
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excepting themselves two? Declares,
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Cameronian Lily; but if I can but l
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Jeanie in the meantime had advanced
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“No, sir—we are by different mo
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prisoner, as her father was borne f
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ence of the justices, and the sworn
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD Law, take thy
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with them a stunning apathy, which
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means of killing my greyheaded fath
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in his anger—but it’s a’ the
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that I mean to disturb you; but wha
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THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN CHAPTER FI
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“He has blessed mine errand,” s
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“Ah, Jeanie! ye never learned ony
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It was deep in the night when all t
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family misfortunes; but still she f
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y the head, and picking a meal of g
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there met by Mrs. Janet Balchristie
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num of his ear. As he was, in some
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“Outby his knowledge, Jeanie!—I
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heard his name yet—Come now, Jean
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father pays or disna pay, I make ye
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Butler dwelt, which, with its old-f
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usher. A similarity of taste begot
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“No understand me, man? Ictus is
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“I had a message frae my father t
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“Weel, but maybe I can get that t
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forby now; and I trust him entirely
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General Post-Office in Scotland wit
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out your free will and knowledge. O
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anent my poor father, and that misf
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educed by her deposit at Liberton,
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Without asking farther questions, t
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walking, and it was considerably la
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cipal inn there, and may find some
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“This won’t do, my girl. D—n
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“She has got a jark from Jim Ratc
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for decent Christian young leddies,
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“I think you give me always the f
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CHAPTER SIXTH Bind her quickly; or,
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hasty with his flats and sharps. Be
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devil, if there be a devil, and foo
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ut, rat me, I will be true to my fr
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Madge, who was walking very fast, s
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she had relieved the unhappy wander
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halt, that Great-heart delivered fr
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derangement of amind which was cons
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The Lady of Beeve in diamonds may s
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offended; an attempt the most likel
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told Jeanie that she thought they n
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ure of her father waving her back f
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It is true she felt disposed to be
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me to be brained by my mother when
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into this very comfortable provisio
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erence that she is a Scotchwoman, I
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Sir Walter Scott ment without some
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self before taking any steps which
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violence. She thought she could col
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“Ah,” she said, “an all Scotc
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“Silence!” he said sternly—
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you have heard my counsel, you may
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people in the suburbs, which she fr
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had been engaged in, should I be so
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usiness and leave her alone, she ha
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“Amen,” replied Staunton, “if
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CHAPTER TENTH And now, will pardon,
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to impute Jeanie’s language to si
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“I have made inquiry,” said the
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precious souls of our kirk, and spe
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“You refuse to see me. I suppose
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Jeanie felt conscious, that whoever
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ther sent him abroad, but he only r
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lated, would have sought to rise fr
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they are connected with the precedi
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story, I think—a case of child-mu
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With these words, she delivered to
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“It seems contrary to the genius
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them, Jeanie, as would gar ane thin
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Jeanie Deans, I say! come down stai
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lady whose interest with the king i
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They found themselves at the extrem
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many of those determined Tories, wh
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secured her power against the dange
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neglect.” This was said apparentl
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must allow me some of the privilege
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Sir Walter Scott 455 “If your Maj
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the disorder and damage which arise
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nightly exercise, forgot to pray th
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They found the carriage of the Duke
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occasion to send an express down to
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ceive how ardently, under all disti
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will be much more ready to give my
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deem that captivitie of my poor sis
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that may hae been spoken between us
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with tobacco, and it is not a littl
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tates of Heaven, and which she had
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in four weeks. Her mind is in an ev
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Duke wished to speak with her; and
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formed a strong contrast to her jou
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emaining form descended from its el
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with many a yell of delight around
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agitated, that Mr. Archibald did no
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When Faith hath chased cold Doubt a
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CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH Wilt thou go on
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travelling through Dumfriesshire an
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us, and for me in particular, who m
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let of fishing huts, where a shallo
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on’t.—Are you sure the boat wil
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and Dukes of Argyle, from an early
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“And she has left us to gang aff
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of David Deans, cowfeeder, and so f
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sentee) for the kirk of the parish
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did not very well know of what natu
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There is, perhaps, no time at which
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ers, merely on hearing these fearfu
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He received his friend with an appe
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the Gospel was as foolishness, yet
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for his pilotage. He stated the exa
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y professors, and specially by youn
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aphy and mode of expression. In thi
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She was obliged, however, at length
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ye speak o’, ye sall see the sinc
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different preparations of milk, ple
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On either side, a full bow-shot and
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her happiness to think she might be
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the kirk-session and the clergymen
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head, excepting David Deans, who al
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Duncan of Knock to a sense of rever
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deed always strictly canonical, but
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nary, Mrs. Dolly felt no alarm for
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here,” she said, “like a ghaist
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from her husband, and leading Jeani
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CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD Lord! who woul
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always clean, and nobody ever saw a
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kaline smoothness of her own dispos
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had promised, that, if she lived an
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hand, though something stiff and co
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tion—then it was blows and stabs
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fairly vanquished the feeling of pi
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upon, she thought, to unveil her si
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erally disused now, that it sounds
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIFTH Upon my head t
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spirited behaviour had so far a goo
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pots of jelly, her vials of the mor
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father David’s shrewdness, even u
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The title of this paper, so strange
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Such (for we omit moral reflections
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“Give it me, sir,” said the lad
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hastened into her own room to read
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pressions of mutual affection, Lady
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In fact, during the feverish tumult
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side of the intercepting rock, from
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part of the broad shelf or platform
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“I hope he will live to see mony
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in procession to the place where th
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desperate state of mind, occasional
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several public appearances in the A
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“Haud your din, carles,” said M
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for a minute, asked his guest wheth
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as he knew her to be, with the full
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At length they embarked in the boat
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While they agitated these grave sub
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had occasioned this breach of appoi
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“when you know the act of Parliam
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with his drawn sword in his hand. D
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learned from a companion of hers, t
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tion of men to excite the suspicion
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“Join wi’ Rob Roy, or wi’ Ser
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lowed the law, and rose more slowly
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of five shillings per quarter, as m
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Quakerism, doe endeavour to breid a
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assumed the habit, and entered into
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NOTE C.—THE OLD TOLBOOTH. The anc
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seemed to be all struck of a heap;
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how they might be seized. In conseq
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Tolbooth door, and refuses what is
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’tis believed it won’t be easy
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ut more exceptionable. His Majestie
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character in his line of life and a
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NOTE F.—PETER WALKER. This person
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more upon it, especially that fooli
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NOTE I.—THE FAIRY BOY OF LEITH, T
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NOTE J.—INTERCOURSE OF THE COV- E
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NOTE M.—Sir William Dick of Braid
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this.” In short, Hume had only ma
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NOTE P.—Expulsion of the Bishops
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oadside, without any date or author
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aising his head. If she chanced to
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“To the real history of this sing
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said, ‘that shall not be, for we
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