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The Three Perils of Woman, Or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy (991); A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales
The Three Perils of Woman Or Love Leasing and Jealousy A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales - 991 Author:James Hogg Volume: 991 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This i... more »s a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and 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: CIRCLE THIRD. That very evening, who should arrive with the Pringleton coach, but our good friend Daniel Bell, and with him his ne- phew-in-law, that is, his wife's brother's son, Richard Rickleton, Esq. of Burlhope, and farmer of seventeen thousand acres of land, on the two sides of the Border. He was a real clod-pole -- a moss-jumper -- a man of bones, thews, and sinews, with no more mind or ingenuity than an owl; men nicknamed him the heather-blooter, from his odd way of laughing, for that laugh could have been heard for five miles all around, on a calm evening, by the Border fells, -- and, for brevity's sake, it was often contracted into the Hooter. But, with all these oddities, Richard Rickleton was as rich as VOL. I. G Croesus; at least he was richer, by his own account, than Simon Dodd of llamshope, and that seemed to be the ultimatum of his ambition. The cause of Richard's coming to Edinburgh was no other than to commence an acquaintance and courtship with his cousin, Miss Bell, and that at the suggestion of both her parents. From the tenor of their daughter's letters, they both agreed that something more than ordinary was the matter with her; and, though none of them ventured to pronounce what that something was, they also agreed that the sooner they could get a husband for her the better, for they both suspected, what they dreaded to say, ...« less