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Woodstock, or the Cavalier; A Tale of the Year 1651
Woodstock or the Cavalier A Tale of the Year 1651 Author:Sir Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Original Publisher: Adam and Charles Black Subjects: Great Britain Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This... more » 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 H. Come forth, old man -- Thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time hath quelt'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide The ruins of the parent tree. When the sermon was ended, the military orator wiped his brow; for, notwithstanding the coolness of the weather, he was heated with the vehemence of his speech and action. He then descended from the pulpit, and spoke a word or two to the corporal who commanded the party of soldiers, who, replying by a sober nod of intelligence, drew his men together, and marched them in order to their quarters in the town. The preacher himself, as if nothing extraordinary had happened, left the church and sauntered through the streets of Woodstock, with the air of a stranger who was viewing the town, without seeming to observe that he was himself in his turn anxiously surveyed by the citizens, whose furtive yet frequent glunces seemed to regard him as something alike suspected and dreadful, yet on no account to be provoked. He heeded them not, but stalked on in the manner affected by the distinguished fanatics of the day; a stiff solemn pace, n severe and at the same time a contemplative look, like (hat of a man (Hscomposed at the interruptions which earthly objects forced upon him, obliging him by their intrusion to withdraw his thoughts for an instant from celestial...« less