Waverly Novels - 1864 Author:Walter Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. Cursed be the gold and silver, which persuade Weak man to follow far fatiguing trade. The lily, peace, outshines the silver store, And life is dea... more »rer than the golden ore. Yet money tempts us o'er the desert browu, To every distant mart and wealthy town. Hassan, Or The Camel-driyeb. - Arthur Philipson, and Anne of Geierstein, thus placed together in a situation which brought them into the closest possible contiguity, felt a slight degree of embarrassment ; the young man, doubtless, from the fear of being judged a poltroon in the eyes of the maiden by 'whom he had been rescued, and the young woman, perhaps, in consequence of the exertion she had made, or a sense of being placed suddenly in a situation of such proximity to the youth whose life she had probably saved. "And now, maiden," said Arthur, "I must repair to my father. The life which I owe to your assistance, can scarce be called welconle to me, unless I am permitted to hasten to his rescue." He was here interrupted by another bugle-blast, which seemed to come from the quarter in which the elder Philipson and his guide had been left by their young and daring companion. Arthur looked in that direction; but the platform, which he had seen but imperfectly from thetree, when he was perched in that place of refuge, was invisible from the rock on which they now stood. "It would cost me nothing to step back on yonder root," said the young woman, " to spy from thence whether I could see aught of your friends. But I am convinced they are under safer guidance than either yours or mine; for the horn announces that my uncle, or some of my young kinsmen have reached them. They are by this time on their way to the Geierstein, to which, with your permission, I will become your guide; for you may be assured that m...« less