The Laird O' Cockpen Author:Rita General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: United States book company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations an... more »d there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. A RANDOM SPEECH. 11 All you that are in love, and cannot it remove, I pity the pains you endure; For experience makes me know That your hearts are full of woe -- A woe that no mortal can cure." I Was in disgrace. Yes, there was no doubt about it. I certainly was in disgrace with Grannie. I could not have believed the kind old lady could have worn so freezing and dignified an aspect as she adopted, and kept up too, for the remainder of that eventful Sunday. As for Kenneth, he sulked -- that is the only word that expresses it. But that did not trouble me in the least; I thought they were both very foolish to make such a fuss about a trifle. After all, what could a short walk on a Sunday afternoon matter to anyone ? I could not see that it was wrong, and a natural indignation rose in my mind against the follies and shackles of a superstition that could turn an innocent recreation into the semblance of a sin. The dreary monotony of a Scotch Sabbath had not, as yet, been very strongly impressed upon my mind. When I grew better acquainted with its rigorous exactions and wearisome formalities, I confess I wondered greatly that an enlightened people could so burden their lives and consciences, or find any fitting argument by which to justify themselves for so doing. I shall never forget old Jean's horror and consternation when I asked her if she really supposed the whole world had been created in seven d...« less