This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...was a very convenient thing for Mr. Hugh Wardlaw. It was a cunning method of going to work, to persuade a child under fifteen that he was dying for love of her! A rare device, in truth! And my father's being her guardian presented no obstacle to their wishes; for he would not have taken the trouble of opposing foul ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...was a very convenient thing for Mr. Hugh Wardlaw. It was a cunning method of going to work, to persuade a child under fifteen that he was dying for love of her! A rare device, in truth! And my father's being her guardian presented no obstacle to their wishes; for he would not have taken the trouble of opposing foul play, even if he had remarked it. While I, --who would have poured forth my heart's blood for Phemy when she had not a farthing in the world, --I! But I must be calm, if I can. "This state of things could not long endure; and I brought it, through my own agency, to a very unexpected termination. I was wandering about the woods, one day, with poor Comhal, when Wardlaw came along the narrow path behind us, with his gun in his hand. He had been shooting. Comhal was in his way, and, like a brute as he was, he raised his foot to thrust him aside. The noble beast showed all his teeth, and growled fiercely, as he turned round upon him; and I turned my head just in time to see the dastard--the contemptible dastard--point the muzzle of his gun towards the head of my brave hound, and lay his finger on the trigger. I had tried his strength: in an instant, the gun was whirling through the air, far down into the glen; and in another moment he followed it. I seized him by the throat, and thrust him down the steep bank with my foot. I could have done it, in the strength of my long-repressed scorn and passion, had he been the Wallace wight himself. "I returned home, fully expecting to be called upon to give the fellow--craven as he was--the satisfaction of a gentleman. I thought he could do no less. What, my lord, do you suppose was the satisfaction of which he availed himself? He went and told his mother! Yes!--ha, ha, ha!--he told his mother! Excuse me...
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