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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ly related to the family of the bride. It is well known that the family of Dalrymple, which has produced, within the space of two centuries, as many m... ...ny house in Scotland, first rose into dis- tinction in the person of James Dalrymple, one of the most eminent lawyers that ever lived, though the labo... ... unaccountable and melancholy. Miss Janet Dalrymple, daughter of the first Lord Stair and Dame Margaret Ross, had engaged herself without the knowl- e... ...et Ross, had engaged herself without the knowl- edge of her parents to the Lord Rutherford, who was not acceptable to them either on account of his po... ... last summer, while I was taking sketches on the coast of East Lothian and Berwickshire, I was seduced into the mountains 25 Sir Walter Scott of Lamm... ... of Ravenswood, occupying, and in some measure commanding, a pass betweixt Berwickshire, or the Merse, as the southeastern province of Scotland is ter... ...not, are still preserved at 52 Bride of Lammermoor Chillingham Castle, in Northumberland, the seat of the Earl of T ankerville. It was to her finding... ...d look at the fine moonlight prospect of the Bass 81 Sir Walter Scott and North Berwick Law till I sort the horses, I would mar- shal ye up, as reaso... ...sistant; “when there is the grey and silver that your lordship bestowed on Hew Hildebrand, your outrider; and the French velvet that went with my lord...

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