Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century

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Вальтер Скотт. Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century

INTRODUCTION

LETTER I. DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD

LETTER II. ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER

LETTER III. DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD

LETTER IV. THE SAME TO THE SAME

LETTER V. ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER

LETTER VI. DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD

LETTER VII. THE SAME TO THE SAME (In continuation.)

LETTER VIII. ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER

LETTER IX. ALEXANDER FAIRFORD, W.S., TO MR. DARSIE LATIMER

LETTER X. DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD

LETTER XI. THE SAME TO THE SAME

LETTER XII. THE SAME TO THE SAME

LETTER XIII. ALAN FAIRFORD TO DARSIE LATIMER

CHAPTER I. NARRATIVE

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV. DARSIE LATIMER’S JOURNAL, IN CONTINUATION

CHAPTER V. DARSIE LATIMER’S JOURNAL, IN CONTINUATION

CHAPTER VI. LATIMER’S JOURNAL, IN CONTINUATION

CHAPTER VII. LATIMER’S JOURNAL, IN CONTINUATION

CHAPTER VIII. LATIMER’S JOURNAL, IN CONTINUATION

CHAPTER IX. LATIMER’S JOURNAL, IN CONTINUATION

CHAPTER X. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD

CHAPTER XI. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XII. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XIII. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XIV. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XV. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XVI. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XVII. NARRATIVE OF DARSIE LATIMER

CHAPTER XVIII. NARRATIVE OF DARSIE LATIMER, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XIX. NARRATTVE OF DARSIE LATIMER, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XX. NARRATIVE OF DARSIE LATIMER, CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXI. NARRATIVE OF ALAN FAIRFORD

CHAPTER XXII. NARRATIVE CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXIII. NARRATIVE CONTINUED

CONCLUSION, BY DR. DRYASDUST. IN A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY

NOTES

NOTE 1. – THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

NOTE 2. – THE PERSECUTORS

NOTE 3. – LAMENTATION FOR THE DEAD

NOTE 4. – PETER PEEBLES

NOTE 5. – JOHN’S COFFEE-HOUSE

NOTE 6. – FISHING RIGHTS

NOTE 7. – STATE OF SCOTLAND

NOTE 8. – CONCEALMENTS FOR THEFT AND SMUGGLING

NOTE 9 – CORONATION OF GEORGE III

NOTE 10. – COLLIER AND SALTER

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CUR ME EXANIMAS QUERELIS TUIS? In plain English, Why do you deafen me with your croaking? The disconsolate tone in which you bade me farewell at Noble House, [The first stage on the road from Edinburgh to Dumfries via Moffat.] and mounted your miserable hack to return to your law drudgery, still sounds in my ears. It seemed to say, ‘Happy dog! you can ramble at pleasure over hill and dale, pursue every object of curiosity that presents itself, and relinquish the chase when it loses interest; while I, your senior and your better, must, in this brilliant season, return to my narrow chamber and my musty books.’

Such was the import of the reflections with which you saddened our parting bottle of claret, and thus I must needs interpret the terms of your melancholy adieu.

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At the same moment, the side-door already mentioned opened, and the young woman (so she proved) whom I had first seen at the door of the cottage, advanced a little way into the room, then stopped bashfully, as if she had observed that I was looking at her, and asked the master of the house, ‘if he had called?’

‘Not louder than to make old Mabel hear me,’ he replied; ‘and yet,’ be added, as she turned to retire, ‘it is a shame a stranger should see a house where not one of the family can or will say a grace – do thou be our chaplain.’

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