The Monastery A Romance Author:Sir Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London Subjects: Scotland Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh... more » Religion / Monasticism Notes: This is 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: CHAPTER III. A courtier extraordinary, who by diet Of meats and drinks, his temperate exercise, Choice music, frequent bathe, his horary shifts Of shirts and waistcoats, means to immortalize Mortality itself, and makes the essence Of his whole happiness the trim of cour(. Magnetic Lady. When the Lord Abbot had suddenly and superciliously vanished from the eyesof his expectant vassals, the Sub Prior made amends for the negligence of his principal, by the kind and affectionate greeting which he gave to all the members of the family, but especially to Dame Elspeth, her foster- daughter, and her son Edward. " Where," he even condescended to enquire, " is that naughty Nimrod, Halbert ? -- He hath not yet, I trust, turned, like his great prototype, his hunting-spear against man ?" " O no, an it please your reverence," said Dame Glendinning, " Halbert is up the glen to get some venison, or surely he would not have been absent when such a day of honour dawned upon me and mine." " O, to get savoury meat such as our soul loveth," muttered the Sub-Prior, " it has been at all times an acceptable gift. -- I bid you good morrow, my good dame, as I must attend upon his lordship the Father Abbot." " And O, reverend sir," said the good widow, detaining him, " if it might be your pleasure to take part with us if there is any t...« less