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...TES TO THE HIGHLAND WIDOW. .............................................................................................................. 210 Note 7.?LOCH AWE. ............................................................................................................................................ 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ...

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................................................................. 210 Note 7.—LOCH AWE. .................................................................... ...his now defenceless antago- nist, he employed it in parrying the blow of a Lochaber axe aimed at the officer by the Miller, one of his own followers, ... ...ame was never far distant. But it was chiefly in connection with the busi- ness of this meeting, which his late Royal Highness had con- descended in a... ...nts are not of his own making, but arise from the natural sources of sick- ness and old age. It cannot be denied that there is one class of sufferers ... ...dvocate at the bar. He was likewise distinguished for the kindness, frank- ness, and cordial manner in which he communicated with the junior members o... ...d now give “Scotland, the land of Cakes.” He would give every river, every loch, every hill, from T weed to Johnnie Groat’s house—every lass in her co... ...lf treading upon ticklish ground when he approached the region of the Nor’ Loch. He as- sured the company, however, that he was not about to enter on ... ...he advances of a fair contemporary? So we allowed the full degree of kind- ness to the meeting—honi soit qui mal y pense—and then Janet entered instan... ...ame was MacIntyre.] and had heard a hundred legends of the stern chiefs of Loch Awe, Duncan with the thrum bonnet, and the other lords of the now moul...

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...gument. The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action in... ...ntain and meadow, moss and moor, And pondered refuge from his toil, By far Lochard or Aberfoyle. But nearer was the copsewood gray That waved and wept... ...ard or Aberfoyle. But nearer was the copsewood gray That waved and wept on Loch Achray, And mingled with the pine-trees blue On the bold cliffs of Ben... ... Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled, In all her length far winding lay, Wit... ...pproached the side,— ‘I well believe, that ne’er before Your foot has trod Loch Katrine’s shore But yet, as far as yesternight, Old Allan-bane foretol... ...a with which history abounds. Such an apparition is said to have been wit- nessed upon the side of Southfell mountain, between Penrith and Keswick, up... ...pposed to enjoy, in their subterraneous recesses, a sort of shadowy happi- ness,—a tinsel grandeur; which, however, they would willingly exchange for ...

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...“Poor child!” he said quietly and sadly. “You must put away this childish- ness, my dear. You know that you are not really alone, even in a strange pl... ... plain that her mind was pretty well composed. That little bit of forgive- ness, though it had not even cost an effort, had been soften- ing, soothing... ...her friend talked Kate’s bright candid conscientious character, her readi- ness, sense, and intelligence, she said to herself, and perhaps justly, tha... ...r prisoner’s hand, and ran off with her to the corner where the scenery of Loch Katrine had so often been begun, and began with great ani- mation to e... ...lain. This a hole that looked as if an old hen had been grubbing in it was Loch Katrine. “Loch Katharine—that’s yours! And which is to be Loch Sylvia?... ... motion, and voice, that she had only to do with a little girl after all. “Loch nonsense!” said Kate, rather bluntly. “Did you never hear of the Lochs... ...ather bluntly. “Did you never hear of the Lochs, the Lakes, in Scotland?” “Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, Loch Awe, Loch Ness?— But I don’t do my geograph... ...Lochs, the Lakes, in Scotland?” “Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, Loch Awe, Loch Ness?— But I don’t do my geography out of doors!” “’Tisn’t geography; ’tis ... ...ere Mary and Sylvia laid her; and she slept, and slept in dreamless sound- ness, till she was waked by Mary’s getting up in the morning, and found her...

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...der of the Duke of Guise? The insolent prosperity of the victim; the weak- ness, the vices, the terrors, of the author of the deed; the perfect execut... ... easily, as an irresponsible, insoluble labyrinth. Within, it is a wilder- ness of empty chambers, a royal and romantic barrack. The exiled prince to ... ...e; and I say this with a due recollection of the claims of Chaumont and of Loches,—which latter, by the way (excuse the afterthought), is not on the L... .... Besides, we had to go to Chenonceaux, to Azay-le-Rideau, to Langeais, to Loches. So I have not the memory of Chinon; I have only the regret. But reg... ...ou wander round to either side of the house. If a certain springing light- ness is the characteristic of Chenonceaux, if it bears in every line the as... ... with the great- est lightness from the angles of the building. The sober- ness of the main lines, the harmony of the empty spaces and those that are ... ...o enjoy. X. THE CONSEQUENCE of my leaving to the last my little mention of Loches is that space and opportunity fail me; and yet a brief and hurried a... ...d a fearful joy, my companion and I, the after- noon we took the train for Loches. The weather this time had been terribly against us: again and again... ...cious, exasperating. It was a question of our having but an hour or two at Loches, and we could ill afford to sacrifice to accidents. One of the accid...

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...rse. Doctor Archibald Cameron, brother of the celebrated Donald Cameron of Lochiel, attainted for the rebellion of 1745, was found by a party of soldi... ...5, was found by a party of soldiers lurking with a comrade in the wilds of Loch Katrine five or six years after the battle of Culloden, and was there ... ...- most publicly imputed to a mean and personal hatred of Donald Cameron of Lochiel, the sufferer’s heroic brother. Yet the fact was that whether the e... ... Alan, all is not at ease within me. I am affected with a sense of loneli- ness, the more depressing, that it seems to me to be a soli- tude peculiarl... ... 40 Redgauntlet two or three abrupt turnings; but neither danger nor dark- ness impeded the motion of the black horse, who seemed rather to slide upon... ...es of Birrenswork more than any other gentleman who comes here about busi- ness, although I do not care to go tilting at his throat, be- cause he spea... ...e curiosity than apprehension. I observed to Miss Geddes the extreme tame- ness of these timid and shy animals, and she informed me that their confide... ...esshire, and called by the fishers of that hamlet, the Laird of the Solway Lochs. The cause for his inveterate persecution I cannot pretend even to gu... ..., with letters about him from the Laird of Summertrees to the Laird of the Lochs, as they call him, along Solway, and every minute he lies here is a n...

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...t lived to a great old age. He married Cameron Daughter to Ewen Cameron of Lochiel.” Following this is a paragraph stating that “John Stewart 1st of A... .... I had to put my hand over my eyes to get back to the colour of the dark- ness; and indeed I was already half blinded when I stepped into the tower. ... ...most lads that have been country-bred, I had a great opinion of my shrewd- ness. I had come to his door no better than a beggar and little more than a... ... dear. Thirty guineas on the sea-side, or sixty if ye set me on the Linnhe Loch. T ake it, if ye will; if not, ye can do your worst.” “Ay,” said Hosea... ...t my heart beat like a bird’s, both quick and little; and there was a dim- ness came before my eyes which I continually rubbed away, and which continu... ... eas, if ye land me on the sea-side; and sixty, if ye put me in the Linnhe Loch.” “But see, sir, where we lie, we are but a few hours’ sail from Ardna... ...riska in the chain of the Long Island. Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch, the straight course was through the narrows of the Sound of Mull. But... ...of business.” “Ah!” says he, falling again to smiling, “I got my wasteful- ness from the same man I got the buttons from; and that was my poor father,... ...tty thing to have seen. But there was one melancholy part. In the mouth of Loch Aline we found a great sea-going ship at anchor; and this I supposed a...

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...ets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park, and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend -- if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins -- if there be any of them left; or to push (on a long holiday) so far afield as Gillane or the Bass. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the ...

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...ntify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park, and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend – if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins – if ther... ...ed me as ballast to so much sail. The first was the very difficult and deadly busi- ness I had still to handle; the second, the place that I was in. T... ...they could catch him – but James whatever! Go near the Advocate with any such busi- ness, and you’ll see! he’ll find a way to muzzle, ye.” “I think be... ...of the tall figure of James More in a corner. He seemed a prey to a painful uneasi- ness, reaching forth his feet and hands, and his eyes speed- ing h... ...greatly horrified by so much baseness, and much unmanned by the immediacy and ugli- ness of my danger. Mr. Simon had already gloried in the changes of... ...black length of it tail down, from where the castle stands upon its crags above the loch in a long line of spires and gable ends, and smoking chimneys... ...as ashamed. I had my studies to complete: I had to be called into some useful busi- ness; I had yet to take my part of service in a place where all mu... ...s. A little beyond we made a useful beacon, which was a light in an upper window of Lochend. Steering by this, but a good deal at random, and with som...

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...hether for poetry or music, that can surpass the effect of these two syllables in the dark- ness of a night at sea. The day dawned fairly enough, and ... ...problems. He had gone nearly be- side himself on the Sunday, because of a general backward- ness to indorse his definition of mind as ‘a living, think... ...r. He was a capable man, with a good chance in life; but he had drunk up two thriving busi- nesses like a bottle of sherry, and involved his sons alon... ... voice heard singing among all the pas- sengers; he was the first who fell to dancing. From Loch Foyle to Sandy Hook, there was not a piece of fun und... ...enjoyed the bow, so nicely cal- culated between jest and earnest, between grace and clumsi- ness, with which he brought each song to a conclusion. He ... ...o the rails. An elderly man, but whether passenger or seaman it was impossible in the dark- ness to determine, lay grovelling on his belly in the wet ...

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...ouis Stevenson and hoots adown arched passages, and the far-spread wilder- ness of city lamps keeps quavering and flaring in the gusts. Here, it is th... ... lie the Queen’s Park, from Muschat’s Cairn to Dumbiedykes, St. Margaret’s Loch, and the long wall of Salisbury Crags: and thence, by knoll and rocky ... ... wreck- ers cut the rings from ladies’ fingers; and a few miles round Fife Ness is the fatal Inchcape, now a star of guidance; and the lee shore to th... ...e them music. The person who saw this, and whose heart was full of bitter- ness at the moment, pocketed a reproof which has been of use to him ever si... ...for skating, there is scarce any city so handsomely provided. Duddingstone Loch lies under the abrupt southern side of Arthur’s Seat; in summer a shie... ...lter before the burglary in Chessel’s Court. On the op- posite side of the loch, the ground rises to Craigmillar Castle, a place friendly to Stuart Ma... ...rt Mariolaters. It is worth a climb, even in summer, to look down upon the loch from Arthur’s Seat; but it is tenfold more so on a day of skating. The... ...ng of black clusters, 46 EDINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES is visible upon the loch. A little longer, and the first torch is kindled and begins to flit ra...

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...ble to transport it by any other road. Notwithstanding these acts of good- ness, they could scarcely look upon a Frenchman after the 12 Saint-Simon t... ... refused with an air of rudeness which did not, however, check his polite- ness. It was furthermore noticeable that, after leaving the table, he made ... ...from Paris, and shortly afterwards died. This completed her husband’s mad- ness; he survived her only a month, dying by his own hand, as I have mentio... ... He unbosomed himself afterwards to one of our friends, and in his bitter- ness said he could only console himself by hoping that his children and min... ...e birth to a daughter. She was full of wit, vivacity, intrigue, and sweet- ness; yet most wicked, false, and artificial, and all this with a simplicit... .... On the 13th of April, I arrived, about five o’clock in the afternoon, at Loches. I slept there because I wished to write a volume of details to the ...

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...ame perfection. Having been often hospitably received at the farm-house of Lochside, near Yetholm, she had carefully abstained from committing any dep... ...rateful conduct, and so much ashamed of it, that she absented herself from Lochside for several years. “It happened, in course of time, that in conseq... ... that in consequence Of some temporary pecuniary necessity, the Goodman of Lochside was obliged to go to Newcastle to raise some money to pay his rent... ...et up a loud shout of joyful recognition—’Eh, sirs! the winsome Gudeman of Lochside! Light down, light down; for ye maunna gang farther the night, and... ...and demanded of Jean whom she had got there. “‘E’en the winsome Gudeman of Lochside, poor body,’ re- plied Jean; ‘he’s been at Newcastle seeking sille... ...ain, they held a consultation if they should take it or no; but the small- ness of. the booty , and the vehemence of Jean’s remonstrances, determined ... ...pson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkward- ness of his figure. They were the first words which Mannering had heard him... ...ck smoke which floated landward from it, between their course and the wit- nesses’ observation. That the ship destroyed was Dirk Hatteraick’s, no one ... ... an objection to solitary walks. Miss Mannering acquiesced with a passive- ness which is no part of her character, and which, to tell you the plain tr...

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...st of cooks, went to prepare wedding break- fasts as far as Chatelherault, Loches, Vendome, and Blois. This said man, an old fox, perfect in his busin... ...the bank of the Loire towards Plessis inhaling like a fish the fine fresh- ness of the water, toying, sauntering like a little mouse who wishes to see... ...t, Olivet cheese, goat cheese, and others, well known between Langeais and Loches, pots of butter, hare pasties, preserved ducks, pigs’ trotters in br... ... and thinking of no other thing than to give them more pleasure and happi- ness than she received from them. But in spite of the iterated refusals of ... ..., demon of the nature of the Succubus, which is a female devil whose busi- ness it is to corrupt Christians by the blandishments and flagitious deligh...

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... of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frank- ness, what its writer’s opinion was about men and things, and threw what mu... ... 39 Montaigne our souls, which, lodged elsewhere, will lose all conscious- ness of what goes on here below, yet I consider it to be a great consolatio... ...s province than his own, thinking it so much new reputation acquired; wit- ness the jeer Archidamus put upon Pertander, “that he had quitted the glory... ...l Italy had so long truckled under, was seen to die a wretched prisoner at Loches, but not till he had lived 117 Montaigne ten years in captivity,—[H... ... where they eat all sorts of herbs, without other scruple than of the bad- ness of the smell: where all things are open the finest houses, furnished i... ...l the theft, and to make it pass for his own, is first injustice and mean- ness of spirit in those who do it, who having nothing in them of their own ...

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...where their intended road turned northwards, and, leaving the verge of the loch, ascended a ravine to the right hand, 28 Sir Walter Scott when they d... ...of Lutzen, may be said to have seen pitched battles. And one who hath wit- nessed the intaking of Frankfort, and Spanheim, and 32 Sir Walter Scott Nu... ..., a targe, and a claymore, Short hose, and belted plaid or trews, In Uist, Lochaber, Skye, or Lewes, Or cover’d hard head with his bonnet; Had you but... ...d guns, both match-lock and fire-lock, and long-bows, and cross- bows, and Lochaber axes, and coats of plate armour, and steel bonnets, and headpieces... ...in a company, and a pretty soldier, foretold the death of Donald T ough, a Lochaber man, and certain other persons, as well as the hurt of the major h... ... the folk,” he said; “the haill Hielands are asteer, I think. Evan Dhu, of Lochiel, will be here in an hour, with Lord kens how many gillies.” “Into t... ... each other with overflowing kindness, or with haughty and distant polite- ness, according to the circumstances of friendship or hostil- ity in which ... ... of the Mist.” “Son of the Mist!” ejaculated Dalgetty. “Son of utter dark- ness, say I. But, Ranald, since that is your name, how came you in possessi... ...ell authorised her to entertain. Whatever was in other respects the noble- ness of his disposition, he had never been known to resist the wilfulness o...

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...verard returned to Waverley Hall upon a led horse which was kept in readi- ness for him, while the child and his attendant were sent home in the carri... ...on a moonless night, by an association of stout yeomen, for his officious- ness. Nay, it was even said, that at the arrest of Sir William Wyndham, the... ... the others. The glen, or dell, was terminated by a sheet of water, called Loch-V eolan, into which the brook discharged itself, and which now glisten... ...ived to bring the point while consulting him regularly on some other busi- ness. But the Baron would not listen to such a proposal for an instant. On ... ...one of whom had upon his shoulder a hatchet at the end of a pole, called a Lochaber-axe, [The T own- guard of Edinburgh were, till a late period, arme... ...on the other side, he gained the wild and precipitous shores of a Highland loch, about four miles in length, and a mile and a half across, surrounded ... ...inary peas- ant. The smiles, displaying a row of teeth of exquisite white- ness, and the laughing eyes, with which, in dumb show, she gave Waverley th... ....’ ‘Ah! but ye dinna see through it. When I say wood and water, I mean the loch and the land; and I fancy Donald would be put till’t if the laird were... ... yonder; and if our boats, with a score or twa mair, were to come down the loch to Uaimh an Ri, headed by mysell, or ony other pretty man.’ ‘But suppo...

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...een hung up with his little brother of eight in one of Louis XI’s cages at Loches, with orders that two of the children’s teeth should daily be pulled... ...anity, has a nobleness and sweetness that win our hearts, while his great- ness rests on a far broader basis than that of his conquests, though they a... ..., he came upon the small army of 300 men with 1000 Highlanders, armed with Lochaber axes, at a place which is still called Dalry, or the King’s Field.... ...e him from the ordinary fate. Yet we may doubt which, in true moral great- ness, was the superior in that hour of triumph, the conqueror who trod down... ...ight. Or hunt- ers came, almost unarmed, and gaining the victory by swift- ness and dexterity, throwing a piece of cloth over a lion’s head, or discon... ...held by his de- scendants, who still bear the honored name of Guzman, wit- nessing that the man who gave the life of his first-born rather than break ... ... plead their cause. De Vienne then went back into the town, full of heavi- ness and anxiety; and the six citizens were led by Sir Walter to the presen...

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...es. To the friend who accompanied me I owe many thanks already, indeed I wish I owed him nothing else; but at this moment I feel towards him an almost... ...nd very truly, that it was as beautiful as gold. They were not surprised. The things were plainly the boast of the countryside. And the children expat... ...ed, with a pride perhaps partly mercantile in origin, his pockets preposterously swollen with tops and whistles and string. When she called at a house... ...te and green. Some carried gay iron railings, and quite a parterre of flower-pots. Children played on the decks, as heedless of the rain as if they ha... ...king’s head, in the tall centre turret, appears the dial of a clock; and high above that, three little mechanical figures, each one with a hammer in h...

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... that nicht we foucht like men dementit, and the niest that we kenned we were ashore in Loch Uskevagh, an’ the cocks were crawin’ in Benbecula.’ ‘It w... ...men have drunk away their rea- son, and, discarding speech, bawl together in their mad- ness by the hour; so, to my ears, these deadly breakers shoute... ... incredible vice, was this that the poor man had chosen! I have always thought drunken- ness a wild and almost fearful pleasure, rather demoniacal tha... ...pleasure, rather demoniacal than human; but drunkenness, out here in the roaring black- ness, on the edge of a cliff above that hell of waters, the ma... ...have had no different experience. Yet, weakened as he was by the reaction from his mad- ness of the night before, the passions that smouldered in his ... ... vaults; of the high-flying vice that moved in the sunshine, and the stealth and swift- ness of midnight murder. I have said he was sick as if for hom...

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... saw were sym- metrical—the eyes azure, the complexion of a delicate fair- ness, such as he had not seen equaled, except in those splen- did Lorraine ... ...nd than on that of the lady. Fresh from her convent, simple with childish- ness and innocence, it was to her only the natural completion of her life t... ... looked mutely round as if she hoped to escape! What was the other unkind- ness to this? And ever under the eyes of Diane too, who fol- lowed her to t... ...young Count de Rochefoucauld, entered into the sport with the same hearti- ness, but the Prince of Conde submitted to his fate with a gloomy, disguste... ...ourse the en- deavour to seek for one object with her eyes made the dizzi- ness even more dreadful; and when, at length, she beheld him dragged down b... ... wife of the unfortunate Bellaise who had pined to death in the dungeon at Loches, under Louis XI. Here, then, Berenger saw the right means of riding ...

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...id so,” cries Miss Alison. “We will go all three,” said my lord; and sure enough he got into his boots (the first time in four years – a sore busi- ne... ... that I think she must have learned of strolling players; and I thought her sorrow very much of an affectation, and that she dwelled upon the busi- ne... ...t word of any change, the blood flew to Mrs. Henry’s face. “I wonder at you!” she cried. “I wonder at myself,” says Mr. Henry, with more of bitter- ne... ... silence. “For,” says he, “Alan Black is too vain a man to narrate any such story of himself.” Towards afternoon we came down to the shores of that lo... ...heir shares or grooming over the result. I have said we were pretty fortunate. But an observation fails to be made: that in this world, in no busi- ne... ..., whether they desired scalps or prisoners, whether we should declare ourselves upon the chance, or lie quiet and continue the heart-breaking busi- ne...

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... is warm!’ he has not appetite for more. Or if for something else, then something higher; a fine school of poetry and song arose in these rough shel- ... ...ed shoreward, and high squalls were over- head; the mountains loomed up black; and I could have fancied I had slipped ten thousand miles away and was ... ...rs. Stevenson and the ship’s cook. Except for the Casco lying outside, and a crane or two, and the ever-busy wind and sea, the face of the world was o... ...ave rarely been more wretched than to see him sitting there, so old, so grey, so poor, so hardly fortuned, of so rueful a countenance, and to apprecia... ...nciful race, it is in many cases strong enough to kill; it should be strong indeed in those who tapu their trees secretly, so that they may detect a d... ...on the way out, to see so near at hand the beach and the wonderful colours of the surf. On the way back, when the sea had risen and was running strong... ... But the British case is highly complicated; it im- plies the livelihood of millions; and must be reformed, when it can be reformed at all, with prude...

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...striking points of his face were effaced; he had still a nose, but his cheeks, fattened out, each took a portion of it unto themselves; his chin had j... ...y; “for when you meet me again you will perhaps be alone and there will be daylight.” “V ery good, very good,” said the voice. “En route, gentlemen.” ... ...ached the window in an instant. D’Artagnan followed, but less nimbly, showing plainly that this mode of ascent was not one to which he was ac- custome... ... seat when she saw him and made him a sign to sit down near her. Athos bowed and obeyed. The footman was withdraw- ing, but Athos stopped him by a sig... ...167 Dumas against her as a great crime.” “And therefore,” continued Athos, “the cardinal—the true cardinal, the other one—determined one fine morning ... ...oughts. Between the past and the present was an ineffable abyss. But imagination has the wings of an angel of light and travels safely through or over...

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...y occurred to her that she was promoting gossip, and she returned to busi- ness. Lucy showed off her attainments with her usual self- satisfaction. Th... ...ost lustrous hue of grey, almost as dark as the pupils, and with the soft- ness of long dark eyelashes—beautiful eyes, full of light and expression—an... ...to dissipation. He was really good-natured, and Gilbert dwelt on his kind- ness with warmth and gratitude, and on his prowess in all sporting accompli... ...l and encour- aged, certain that the evil had been chiefly caused by weak- ness and neglect and believing that here was a beginning of repentance. Sin... ...st be wrong, and she laid the case before Mr. Kendal with so much earnest- ness, that he allowed that it would be better to send the boy from home; an... ...ked myself off my legs, and ended the honeymoon laid up in a little inn on Loch Katrine, where John used regularly to knock his head whenever he came ...

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...no more escape, but he lay and detested the grind of the real-estate busi- ness, and disliked his family, and disliked himself for dis- liking them. T... ...inate for presi- dent? Don’t you think it’s about time we had a real busi- ness administration?” “In my opinion, what the country needs, first and for... ...to the waitress, by stertorous grunts as the coffee filled him with dizzi- ness and indigestion. He was apologetic and doubtful, and it was Paul, with... ...ke Sunasquam, aren’t we? Why couldn’t you and I make some excuse—say busi- ness in New York—and get up to Maine four or five days before they do, and ... ...on was the ex- treme of insularity, and Noel Ryland the extreme of frothi- ness, while between them, supporting the state, defend- ing the evangelical... ...s closed, wide mouth indicating ecstasy, he sang, very slowly and richly, “Loch Lomond.” But that was the last of his mellowness and jolly com- panion...

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...t; only, as he went, he groaned and shuddered. For about 2500 of Jack’s steps we only pass one house—that where the lantern was; and about 1500 of the... ...he poor jumping Jack (as he now lies in bed) aches with a kind of yearning strain, difficult to suffer in quiescence. As for my damned literature, God... ...of a certain envy for the man who was out of the battle. All night it ran in my head, and the next day when we sighted Tutuila, and ran into this beau... ... now very much installed; the dining-room is done, and looks lovely. Soon we shall begin to photograph and send you our circumstances. My room is stil... ...nd Com- missioner; a nice kind of a fellow; indeed, all the three Land Commissioners are very agreeable. CHAPTER X SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 (?), 1891. MY DEAR... ...ion, and not so much the wild Arab steed of the desert as had been supposed. The height of his back, after com- modious Jack, astonished me, and I had... ...nd write another. As for women, I am no more in any fear of them; I can do a sort all right; age makes me less afraid of a petticoat, but I am a littl...

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...because all debts and offences are forgiven. Thus it is a source of happi- ness to pardon. Pardon! Pardon! To pardon is a most holy work. Pardon Monse... ...d, she was but fifteen), she believed in her virgin faith, that the happi- ness of becoming a mother demanded this terrible, dreadful bruising and nas... ...to everything one asks of them. At this time Bertha lived near the town of Loches, in the castle of her lord, and there resided, with no desire to do ... ...lord and lady of Bastarnay were invited by the king to come to his town of Loches, where for the present he was with his court, in which the beauty of... ...the beauty of the lady of Bastarnay had made a great noise. Bertha came to Loches, received many kind praises from the king, was the centre of the hom... ...zzled their eyes and muddled their brains. Bertha was more talked about in Loches then either God or the Gospels, which en- raged a great many ladies ... ...behalf—like the good woman she was. Then she told her, that in the town of Loches there lived a young and noble lady, of the family of a Rohan, who at... ...arned that it was Sylvia de Rohan, but was also much affected at the kind- ness of Bertha, whom he thanked for her attempt to bring a little wandering... ...t of France.” Thus did the knight receive the delicate hint that the busi- ness was arranged. Then he commenced to talk of merry and pleasant things, ...

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...t the crows. I sat a long time on the stairs that lead down to Duddingston Loch – a place as busy as a great town during frost, but now solitary and s... ...ather a disappointment. Not so my afternoon skating – Duddingston, our big loch, is bearing; and I wish you could have seen it this afternoon, covered... ...rfect sphere of smoky gold, in the dark air above the trees, and the white loch thick with skaters, and the great hill, snow-sprinkled, overhead! It w... ...rk, origi- nally of prodigious dimensions, he had cut into liths or thick- nesses apparently for convenience of carriage. Then the being walks, where ... ...r; our Mr. Wogg expresses himself dissatisfied with our new place of busi- ness; when left alone in the front shop, he bawled like a parrot; it is sup... ...hat remained; but O to look back, to remember all the mirth, all the kind- ness, all the humorous limitations and loved defects of that character; to ... ...be made to un- derstand that it’s beneath him? Gosh, if I was in his busi- ness, I wouldnae steir my heid for a plain, auld ex-elder that, tak him the...

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...nemy took me by the arm-pits, and seemed to lift me up by my arms. I saw a loch just before me, and I concluded he designed to throw me there by force... ...rriage under his roof was of a character to sympathise; the public useful- ness of the service would appeal to his judgment, the per- petual need for ... ...iece of country traversed was already a familiar track, being that between Loch Eriboll and Cape Wrath; and I think I can scarce do better than reprod... ...of his first 39 Records of a Family of Engineers visit. The tender lay in Loch Eriboll; by five in the morning they sat down to breakfast on board; b... ...naldsay hut. Her hut, which was similar to the model described, stood on a Ness, or point of land jutting into the sea. They were made welcome in the ... ... of Taxes. ‘Sir,’ said she, ‘gin ye’ll tell the King that I canna keep the Ness free o’ the Bangers (sheep) without twa hun’s, and twa guid hun’s too,... ...d a little water, which produced immediate relief. But what was his happi- ness, when on rising from this unpleasant beverage, some one called out, ‘A... ...partments occu- pied by the artificers. Here also all was shut up in dark- ness, the fire having been drowned out in the early part of the gale. Sever...

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...He was con- scious of his own innate and often rasping vivacity and rough- ness and he was never forgetful of his first visit to the Austins and the v... ...ness and dry bustle of the whole thing’; occasional visits abroad on busi- ness, when he would find the time to glean (as I have said) gardening hints... ...upation com- pared to the pursuits of business men. As for so-called idle- ness – that is, one form of it – I vow it is the noblest aim of man. When i... ...y, I should be puzzled to say – mere wanton- 72 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin ness, or reaction perhaps after suspense. ‘June 16. ‘UP THIS MORNING at thr... ... dull night. We are still some miles from land; but the sea is calmer than Loch Eil often was, and the big Hooper rests very con- tentedly after a ple... ...et forth in her to make the passage south. The first morning they got from Loch Broom into Gruinard bay, where they lunched upon an island; but the wi... ...s pains and generous sacrifices. He could not believe in any resolute bad- ness. ‘I cannot quite say,’ he wrote in his young manhood, ‘that I think th...

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...hat account, as Mr. Campbell feelingly observes, it has “a sort of sacred- ness;” and it is a most remarkable fact, and one calculated to make a man s... ...nger his slave, his prisoner, and sometimes his rebel.” It is a far cry to Loch Awe; “and from the Athenian stage to the stage of Shakspeare, it may b... ...tatement; in short, all modes and formulae by which anger, hurry, fretful- ness, scorn, impatience, or excitement under any movement whatever, can dis... ... and always has been, a manly feeling, most widely diffused, of unwilling- ness to see labors of a coarse order, or requiring muscular exertions, thro... ...one with whom he had at one time been domesticated, expired, after an ill- ness of three days, which Dr. Arbuthnot declares to have been “the most pre... ...ontaneously at various times, by looking at the same general theme of dul- ness (which, in Pope’s sense, includes all aberrations of the intellect, na...

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...en of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the conscious- ness of which would have turned any head less constant than his own, and wi... ...mself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clear- ness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many... ... me by Dr. Adams, he said; ‘Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitter- ness which they mistook for frolick. I was mis- erably poor, and I thought ... ...e Charterhouse. For Shiels, who died of a consumption, he had much tender- ness; and it has been thought that some choice sentences in the Lives of th... ... any further use, when once the tribute of nature has been paid. The busi- ness of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exerci... ...y. ‘Pen- nant does not describe well; a carrier who goes along the side of Loch-lomond would describe it better.’ Johnson. ‘I think he describes very ... ...e in a mill; he pulls better.’ Lord Graham, while he praised the beauty of Lochlomond, on the banks of which is his fam- ily seat, complained of the c... ...o my recollection.’ When I recalled to him his having said as we sailed up Loch-lomond, ‘That if he wore any thing fine, it should be very fine;’ I ob...

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...ll; and wept upon her bosom; wept, and moaned, and begged for her forgive ness. It was a profound shock, and she staggered under the blow, but he was... ...d concealing it from him. Under strong temptation she had gone into busi ness again; she had risked their whole fortune in a purchase of all the rai... ...o me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fond ness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and... ... that she had a wise and thoughtful head, for all there was so much light ness and vanity in it. So we said our farewells, and looked our last upon e... ...lp, and the next moment Sadie was plunging and stumbling through the dark ness and the lumber and shouting for the family to hear, “She’s found, she’... ...y because—because—it was just a memory. When I came away she was singing, ‘Loch Lomond.’ The pathos of it! It always moves me so when she sings that.”...

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...ngenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the busi- ness of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosop... ...no longer than the lives of some of the workmen who were bred to the busi- ness in the time of its prosperity. When they are gone, the number of those... ...ins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of busi- ness transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent... ... a profit. Secondly, the wages of labour vary with the easiness and cheap- ness, or the difficulty and expense, of learning the business. When any exp... ...rdingly. The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easi- ness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. All the d... ...ways flow from such causes. It is not thirty years ago since Mr Cameron of Lochiel, a gentleman of Lochaber in Scotland, without any legal warrant wha... ...y into the land, and which, in the language of the country, are called sea-lochs. It is to these sea-lochs that the herrings principally resort during...

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... experience, and is driven as he believes into silent gravity and exclusive ness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of ... ...ts hands and pray to Jupiter. I see these men every day go about their busi ness with more or less courage and content, doing more even than they sus... ... that relates to landscapes, and usually so correct, standing at the head of Loch Fyne, in Scotland, which he describes as “a bay of salt water, sixty... ...and deep, Capacious bed of waters ——. But if, using the shortest diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, ... ...ear four times as shallow. So much for the increased horrors of the chasm of Loch Fyne when emptied. No doubt many a smiling valley with its stretchin...

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... it could never grow older; ardent, sensitive, and heedless, with a quick- ness of sympathy and tenderness of heart that was increased, rather than bl... ...e, unruffled, affectionate happiness, yet with much authority in her mild- ness—warm and open in her own family, but reserved be- yond it, and shrinki... ...He was pre- vented from saying more, by chattering teeth and deadly faint- ness. She tried to support him, but could only guide him as he sank, till h... ...me in, and Mr. Wilmot held out his hand with a look of affection and kind- ness that went to his heart, making room for him on the sofa, while going o... ...e the place of Miss Winter; but she was not sensible of sufficient useful- ness to relieve the burden of fear and bewilderment in the presence of that... ...them also, and know Marjorie. She could quite echo the wish, Edinburgh and Loch Katrine had been the visions of her life, and now that she had once ta...