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Tales of My Landlord,. (4); Castle Dangerous
Tales of My Landlord Castle Dangerous - 4 Author:Sir Walter Scott Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Original Publisher: Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Co., London. Subjects: Covenanters 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 ... more »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 IV. "When the nightengale singes the wodes waxen grene, Lef, and gras, and blosme, springeth in April I wene, And love is to myne herte gone with one speare so kene. N'ight and day my blood hyt drynkes, myne herte deth me tene. MSS. Hail. Quoted by Warton. Sir Aymer De Valence had no sooner followed his archer to the convent of Saint Bride, than he summoned the abbot to his presence, who came with the air of a man who loves his ease, and who is suddenly called from the couch where he has consigned himself to a comfortable repose, at the summons of one whom he does not think it safe to disobey, and to whom he would not disguise his sense of peevishness, if he durst. " It is a late ride," he said, " which has brought your worthy honour hither from the castle. May I be informed of the cause, after the arrangement so recently gone into with the governor ?" : " It is my hope," replied the knight, " thatyou, Father Abbot, are not already conscious of it; suspicions are afloat, and I myself have this night seen something to confirm them, that some of the obstinate rebels of this country are again setting afoot dangerous practices, to the peril of the garrison; and I come, father, to see whether, in requital of many favours received from the English monarch, you will not merit his bounty and protection, by contributing to the discovery of the designs of his enemies." " Assuredly so," answered Father Jerome, in an agitated voice. " Most unquestionably my information shou...« less