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diff --git a/7005-h/7005-h.htm b/7005-h/7005-h.htm index 2c39da7..b38e0c3 100644 --- a/7005-h/7005-h.htm +++ b/7005-h/7005-h.htm @@ -1,16 +1,12 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html> -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> +<html lang="en"> <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> <title> The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott </title> - <style type="text/css"> - <!-- + <style> body { margin:5%; background:#faebd0; text-align:justify} P { text-indent: 1em; margin-top: .25em; margin-bottom: .25em; } H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%; } @@ -39,7 +35,6 @@ p.pfirst, p.noindent {text-indent: 0} span.dropcap { float: left; margin: 0 0.1em 0 0; line-height: 1 } pre { font-style: italic; font-size: 90%; margin-left: 10%;} - --> </style> </head> <body> @@ -49,108 +44,75 @@ <h2> BY SIR WALTER SCOTT </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Antiquary, Complete, by Sir Walter Scott - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Antiquary, Complete - -Author: Sir Walter Scott - -Release Date: August 16, 2004 [EBook #7005] -Last Updated: August 29, 2016 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ANTIQUARY*** - - - - -Produced by David Widger - - - - - -</pre> - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 7005 ***</div> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /><br /> <a name="image-0001" id="image-0001"> + <br ><br > <a id="image-0001"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/bookcover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Bookcover " /><br /> + <img src="images/bookcover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Bookcover "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> - <a name="image-0002" id="image-0002"> + <a id="image-0002"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/spines.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Spines " /><br /> + <img src="images/spines.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Spines "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"> + <a id="link2H_4_0001"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE ANTIQUARY </h2> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <h2> BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. </h2> <p> - <br /><br /> <a name="image-0003" id="image-0003"> + <br ><br > <a id="image-0003"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/titlepage1.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Titlepage " /><br /> + <img src="images/titlepage1.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Titlepage "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> - <br /><br /> <a name="image-0004" id="image-0004"> + <br ><br > <a id="image-0004"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Frontispiece " /><br /> + <img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Frontispiece "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <h2> CONTENTS @@ -306,11 +268,11 @@ Produced by David Widger <a href="#link2H_NOTE"> NOTES TO THE ANTIQUARY. </a> </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <h2> ILLUSTRATIONS @@ -379,19 +341,19 @@ Produced by David Widger <a href="#Aimage-0009"> The Antiquary Arming </a> </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <h2> ILLUSTRATORS </h2> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <table summary=""> + <table> <tr> <td> <h2> @@ -500,16 +462,16 @@ Produced by David Widger </tr> </table> <p> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br > <a id="link2H_4_0003"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> VOLUME ONE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him; But he was shrewish as a wayward child, @@ -520,11 +482,11 @@ Produced by David Widger That first was sung to please King Pepin’s cradle </pre> <p> - <a name="link2H_INTR" id="link2H_INTR"> + <a id="link2H_INTR"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> INTRODUCTION @@ -568,11 +530,11 @@ Produced by David Widger respectful leave, as one who is not likely again to solicit their favour. </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p> To the above advertisement, which was prefixed to the first edition of the @@ -664,7 +626,7 @@ Produced by David Widger consummation as not utterly impossible. Thus in the fine dedication of his works to Gavin Hamilton, he says,— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> And when I downa yoke a naig, Then, Lord be thankit, I can beg. </pre> @@ -672,14 +634,14 @@ Produced by David Widger Again, in his Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet, he states, that in their closing career— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The last o’t, the warst o’t, Is only just to beg. </pre> <p> And after having remarked, that </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> To lie in kilns and barns at e’en, When banes are crazed and blude is thin, </pre> @@ -741,7 +703,7 @@ Produced by David Widger breakfast of bread and ale; the whole moral and religious exhibition terminating in the advice of Johnson’s “Hermit hoar” to his proselyte, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Come, my lad, and drink some beer. </pre> <p> @@ -750,10 +712,10 @@ Produced by David Widger kindly supplied by Mr. Macdonald of the Register House, may interest those whose taste is akin to that of Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns. </p> - <h4> + <h3> BLEW GOWNIS. - </h4> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> + </h3> +<pre> In the Account of Sir Robert Melvill of Murdocarney, Treasurer-Depute of King James VI., there are the following Payments:— @@ -881,7 +843,7 @@ Produced by David Widger closed his wanderings, the author never heard with certainty; but most probably, as Burns says, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —he died a cadger-powny’s death, At some dike side. </pre> @@ -936,11 +898,11 @@ Produced by David Widger * Note A. Mottoes. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> + <a id="link2H_4_0005"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION @@ -981,7 +943,7 @@ Produced by David Widger The general sketch probably began to take full shape about the last day of 1815. On December 29 Scott wrote to Ballantyne:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> DEAR JAMES,— I’ve done, thank’God, with the long yarns @@ -1008,7 +970,7 @@ Produced by David Widger <p> Nor did he collect only— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “The rare melody of some old ditties That first were sung to please King Pepin’s cradle. </pre> @@ -1306,7 +1268,7 @@ Produced by David Widger “suited to his habits and powers,” had gaberlunzies been mere mendicants. In Herd’s collection of Ballads is one on the ancient Scottish beggar:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> In Scotland there lived a humble beggar, He had nor house, nor hald, nor hame; But he was well liked by ilk a body, @@ -1347,7 +1309,7 @@ Produced by David Widger the enemy landed, and, like Edie, might have remembered the “burns he dandered beside,” always with a fishingrod in his hand. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The Editor cannot resist the temptation to add that the patriotic lady mentioned in Scott’s note, who “would rather have seen her son dead on that hearth than hear that he had been a horse’s length @@ -1384,7 +1346,7 @@ Produced by David Widger Dousterswivel still keeps its place in mining superstition and in the search for wells. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> With “The Antiquary” most contemporary reviews of the novels lose their interest. Their author had firmly established his position, at least till “The Monastery” caused some murmurings. Even the “Quarterly Review” was @@ -1407,16 +1369,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. ANDREW LANG. </pre> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0001" id="link2HCH0001"> + <a id="link2HCH0001"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FIRST. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call, @@ -1754,16 +1716,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. travellers alighted at the Hawes. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0002" id="link2HCH0002"> + <a id="link2HCH0002"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SECOND. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Sir, they do scandal me upon the road here! A poor quotidian rack of mutton roasted Dry to be grated! and that driven down @@ -2100,16 +2062,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. fellow-traveller. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0003" id="link2HCH0003"> + <a id="link2HCH0003"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER THIRD. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> He had a routh o’ auld nick-nackets, Rusty airn caps, and jinglin-jackets, Would held the Loudons three in tackets, @@ -2233,11 +2195,11 @@ argument does not convince German critics. steps, and ye are safe!” </p> <p> - <a name="image-0005" id="image-0005"> + <a id="image-0005"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pa026.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Antiquary and Lovel--the Sanctum " /><br /> + <img src="images/pa026.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Antiquary and Lovel--the Sanctum "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -2263,7 +2225,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. cleanliness was almost as fatal to my collection as Hudibras’s visit to that of Sidrophel; and I have ever since missed </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> My copperplate, with almanacks Engraved upon’t and other knacks My moon-dial, with Napier’s bones, @@ -2362,7 +2324,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. books that he prided himself, repeating, with a complacent air, as he led the way to the crowded and dusty shelves, the verses of old Chaucer— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> For he would rather have, at his bed-head, A twenty books, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, or his philosophy, @@ -2529,16 +2491,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. curiosity on his return to Fairport. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0004" id="link2HCH0004"> + <a id="link2HCH0004"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FOURTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The pawkie auld carle cam ower the lea, Wi’ mony good-e’ens and good-morrows to me, Saying, Kind Sir, for your courtesy, @@ -2690,7 +2652,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. be received in such cases. Meanwhile be pleased to observe, for example, that I could press into my service Claudian’s famous line, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Ille Caledoniis posuit qui castra pruinis. </pre> <p> @@ -2717,7 +2679,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. your Bond-street four-in-hand men, I trow—scouring the more level space below— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —See, then, Lovel—See— See that huge battle moving from the mountains! Their gilt coats shine like dragon scales;—their march @@ -2949,16 +2911,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. without farther adventure. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0005" id="link2HCH0005"> + <a id="link2HCH0005"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FIFTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Launcelot Gobbo.</i> Mark me now: Now will I raise the waters. Merchant of Venice. @@ -3095,7 +3057,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. <p> And off went Caxon upon his walk of three miles— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> He hobbled—but his heart was good! Could he go faster than he could?— </pre> @@ -3333,16 +3295,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. wind, set out on his return to the Antiquary’s mansion. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0006" id="link2HCH0006"> + <a id="link2HCH0006"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SIXTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Moth.</i> By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is, Wodnesday, Truth is a thing that I will ever keep @@ -3418,7 +3380,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. Mr. Lovel paid his respects to both ladies, and was answered by the elder with the prolonged courtesy of 1760, drawn from the righteous period, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> When folks conceived a grace Of half an hour’s space, And rejoiced in a Friday’s capon, @@ -3606,7 +3568,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. disordered by the recollection of his military <i>tellings-off</i> at the morning-drill. I was ill, and sent for a surgeon— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> He came—but valour so had fired his eye, And such a falchion glittered on his thigh, That, by the gods, with such a load of steel, @@ -4050,16 +4012,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. such madness heard of!” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0007" id="link2HCH0007"> + <a id="link2HCH0007"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SEVENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —Pleased awhile to view The watery waste, the prospect wild and new; The now receding waters gave them space, @@ -4083,11 +4045,11 @@ argument does not convince German critics. high-road. </p> <p> - <a name="image-0006" id="image-0006"> + <a id="image-0006"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pa082.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour " /><br /> + <img src="images/pa082.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -4378,12 +4340,12 @@ argument does not convince German critics. himself could afford, he raised himself beyond the reach of the billows. </p> <p> - <a name="image-0007" id="image-0007"> + <a id="image-0007"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> <img src="images/pa092.jpg" style="width:100%;" - alt="The Rescue of Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour " /><br /> + alt="The Rescue of Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -4486,16 +4448,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. they were within hearing, if not within reach, of friendly assistance. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0008" id="link2HCH0008"> + <a id="link2HCH0008"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER EIGHTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep; Bring me but to the very brim of it, @@ -4820,16 +4782,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. than his extraordinary exertions of body. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0009" id="link2HCH0009"> + <a id="link2HCH0009"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER NINTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Be brave,” she cried, “you yet may be our guest, Our haunted room was ever held the best. If, then, your valour can the sight sustain @@ -4934,7 +4896,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. <p> Oldbuck half-whistled, half-hummed, the end of the old Scottish ditty, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> O, first they eated the white puddings, And then they eated the black, O, And thought the gudeman unto himsell, @@ -5241,16 +5203,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. destined for his young guest. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0010" id="link2HCH0010"> + <a id="link2HCH0010"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> When midnight o’er the moonless skies Her pall of transient death has spread, When mortals sleep, when spectres rise, @@ -5286,7 +5248,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. <p> *Probably Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads had not as yet been published. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears @@ -5330,7 +5292,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. that ancient and excellent poet, to be embroidered in Gothic letters, on a sort of border which he had added to the tapestry:- </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Lo! here be oakis grete, streight as a line, Under the which the grass, so fresh of line, Be’th newly sprung—at eight foot or nine. @@ -5342,7 +5304,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. <p> And in another canton was the following similar legend:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> And many an hart and many an hind, Was both before me, and behind. Of fawns, sownders, bucks and does, @@ -5369,7 +5331,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. which the anxious reality of his own hopeless passion at present detached him. For he now only felt emotions like those expressed in the lines,— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Ah! cruel maid, how hast thou changed The temper of my mind! My heart, by thee from all estranged, @@ -5528,7 +5490,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. arts. A female voice sung, with some taste and great simplicity, something between a song and a hymn, in words to the following effect:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Why sitt’st thou by that ruin’d hall, Thou aged carle so stern and grey? Dost thou its former pride recall, @@ -5597,16 +5559,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. pint of substantial oatmeal porridge. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0011" id="link2HCH0011"> + <a id="link2HCH0011"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER ELEVENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Sometimes he thinks that Heaven this pageant sent, And ordered all the pageants as they went; Sometimes that only ‘twas wild Fancy’s play,— @@ -5713,7 +5675,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. hope, my young friend, that, charmed or uncharmed—secured by the potency of Hypericon, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> With vervain and with dill, That hinder witches of their will, </pre> @@ -5740,7 +5702,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of a conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —it does allay The good precedent—fie upon <i>but yet!</i> <i>But yet</i> is as a jailor to bring forth @@ -5770,7 +5732,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. But I beg your pardon for mentioning a word that perhaps belongs only to a collector of antiquities—I am one of the old school, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> When courtiers galloped o’er four counties The ball’s fair partner to behold, And humbly hope she caught no cold.” @@ -5931,7 +5893,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. ever-green bower, my sacred holly-tree yonder, and have it <i>fronde super viridi.</i> </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Sing heigh-ho! heigh-ho! for the green holly, Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. </pre> @@ -5959,7 +5921,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. inscription, of which, as Mr. Oldbuck affirmed (though many doubted), the defaced characters could be distinctly traced to the following effect:— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Here lyeth John o’ ye Girnell; Erth has ye nit, and heuen ye kirnell. In hys tyme ilk wyfe’s hennis clokit, @@ -6092,16 +6054,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. wend we on our way to Knockwinnock.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0012" id="link2HCH0012"> + <a id="link2HCH0012"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWELFTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Beggar?—the only freeman of your commonwealth; Free above Scot-free, that observe no laws, Obey no governor, use no religion @@ -6160,11 +6122,11 @@ argument does not convince German critics. the flagged parlour.” </p> <p> - <a name="image-0008" id="image-0008"> + <a id="image-0008"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pa146.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Eddie Ochiltree Visits Miss Wardour " /><br /> + <img src="images/pa146.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Eddie Ochiltree Visits Miss Wardour "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -6368,16 +6330,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. were introduced into the room where company was usually received. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0013" id="link2HCH0013"> + <a id="link2HCH0013"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —The time was that I hated thee, And yet it is not that I bear thee love. Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, @@ -6830,16 +6792,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. Here the conversation paused, until renewed in the next CHAPTER. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0014" id="link2HCH0014"> + <a id="link2HCH0014"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FOURTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: My bosom’s lord sits lightly on his throne, @@ -7224,16 +7186,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. the dinner-bell.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0015" id="link2HCH0015"> + <a id="link2HCH0015"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Be this letter delivered with haste—haste—post-haste! Ride, villain, ride,—for thy life—for thy life—for thy life. Ancient Indorsation of Letters of Importance. @@ -7464,11 +7426,11 @@ argument does not convince German critics. make o’ him.” </p> <p> - <a name="image-0009" id="image-0009"> + <a id="image-0009"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pa185.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Mrs. Heukbane and Mrs. Shortcake " /><br /> + <img src="images/pa185.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Mrs. Heukbane and Mrs. Shortcake "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -7735,16 +7697,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. “there’s sixpence to ye to buy sneeshin.” </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0016" id="link2HCH0016"> + <a id="link2HCH0016"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “I am bewitched with the rogue’s company. If the rascal has not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged; it could not be else. I have drunk medicines.” @@ -8053,7 +8015,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. the old man company in his life, that they may not be forgotten at his death— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Haec data poena diu viventibus.</i> </pre> <p> @@ -8189,16 +8151,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. separated. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0017" id="link2HCH0017"> + <a id="link2HCH0017"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Of seats they tell, where priests, ‘mid tapers dim, Breathed the warm prayer, or tuned the midnight hymn To scenes like these the fainting soul retired; @@ -8325,7 +8287,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. exclaimed the veteran, waving his hand and head in cadence as he repeated with emphasis, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bower from side to side. * @@ -8344,7 +8306,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. appear with it as restored to its original splendour, I will carry on the quotation: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore @@ -8713,16 +8675,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. sitting down around it, did ample honour to the contents of the basket. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0018" id="link2HCH0018"> + <a id="link2HCH0018"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o’er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth @@ -8779,14 +8741,14 @@ argument does not convince German critics. collected himself, and read the company the following tale:— </p> <h3> - The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck.</h3 + The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck. </h3> <p> The solitudes of the Harz forest in Germany, but especially the mountains called Blocksberg, or rather Brockenberg, are the chosen scenes for tales of witches, demons, and apparitions. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> [The outline of this story is taken from the German, though the Author is at present unable to say in which of the various collections of the popular legends in that language the original is to be found.] @@ -9195,16 +9157,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. Waldeck. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0019" id="link2HCH0019"> + <a id="link2HCH0019"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER NINETEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Here has been such a stormy encounter Betwixt my cousin Captain, and this soldier, About I know not what!—nothing, indeed; @@ -9220,7 +9182,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. out of a very trumpery and ridiculous legend. “It is the fashion, as I am given to understand, to admire those extravagant fictions—for me, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —I bear an English heart, Unused at ghosts and rattling bones to start.” </pre> @@ -9742,16 +9704,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. postilion go on. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0020" id="link2HCH0020"> + <a id="link2HCH0020"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTIETH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —If you fail Honour here, Never presume to serve her any more; Bid farewell to the integrity of armes; @@ -10013,11 +9975,11 @@ argument does not convince German critics. Forfarshire.] </p> <p> - <a name="image-0010" id="image-0010"> + <a id="image-0010"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pa261.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="St. Ruth (arbroath Abbey) " /><br /> + <img src="images/pa261.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="St. Ruth (arbroath Abbey) "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -10259,16 +10221,16 @@ argument does not convince German critics. farewell!” And he followed Ochiltree into the recesses of the wood. </p> <p> - <a name="link2HCH0021" id="link2HCH0021"> + <a id="link2HCH0021"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —The Lord Abbot had a soul Subtile and quick, and searching as the fire; By magic stairs he went as deep as hell, @@ -10577,11 +10539,11 @@ argument does not convince German critics. de great Pymander.” </p> <p> - <a name="image-0011" id="image-0011"> + <a id="image-0011"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pa278.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Ruins of St. Ruth " /><br /> + <img src="images/pa278.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Ruins of St. Ruth "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -10667,7 +10629,7 @@ argument does not convince German critics. <p> * Note F. Witchcraft. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Why, I am not afraid,” answered the poor Baronet,—“if—that is—does anything—any great mischiefs, happen on such occasions?” </pre> @@ -10981,26 +10943,26 @@ anything—any great mischiefs, happen on such occasions?” resuming his customary perambulations. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> <br /><br /> + <br ><br > <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> <h2> VOLUME II. </h2> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0001" id="Alink2HCH0001"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0001"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FIRST. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Wiser Raymondus, in his closet pent, Laughs at such danger and adventurement When half his lands are spent in golden smoke, @@ -11489,7 +11451,7 @@ anything—any great mischiefs, happen on such occasions?” and rather suppose them to be, like the purses upon the table of Hudibras’s lawyer— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —Money placed for show, Like nest-eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false opinions pay.— @@ -11558,16 +11520,16 @@ anything—any great mischiefs, happen on such occasions?” the reader may have observed, his natural share was very liberal. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0002" id="Alink2HCH0002"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0002"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SECOND. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —And this Doctor, Your sooty smoky-bearded compeer, he Will close you so much gold in a bolt’s head, @@ -11709,7 +11671,7 @@ anything—any great mischiefs, happen on such occasions?” “I will try the experiment, however, and you shall be dealt with according to its success,—always with Sir Arthur’s permission.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Sir Arthur, during this investigation, had looked extremely embarrassed, and, to use a vulgar but expressive phrase, chop-fallen. Oldbuck’s obstinate disbelief led him strongly to suspect the imposture of @@ -11877,7 +11839,7 @@ procuring success.” <p> “I wot,” said the beggar, “I have often heard that when I was a bairn— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> If Malcolm the Misticot’s grave were fun’, The lands of Knockwinnock were lost and won.” </pre> @@ -11983,7 +11945,7 @@ procuring success.” geomantic figure. Where be your periapts, and your abracadabras man? your Mayfern, your vervain, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Your toad, your crow, your dragon, and your panther, Your sun, your moon, your firmament, your adrop, Your Lato, Azoch, Zernich, Chibrit, Heautarit, @@ -11999,16 +11961,16 @@ procuring success.” next CHAPTER. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0003" id="Alink2HCH0003"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0003"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER THIRD. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Clause.</i>—You now shall know the king o’ the beggars’ treasure:— Yes—ere to-morrow you shall find your harbour Here,—fail me not, for if I live I’ll fit you. @@ -12427,16 +12389,16 @@ procuring success.” fidelity to their appointment, they separated for the present. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0004" id="Alink2HCH0004"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0004"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FOURTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —See thou shake the bags Of hoarding abbots; angels imprisoned Set thou at liberty— @@ -12783,11 +12745,11 @@ procuring success.” which the light proceeded. </p> <p> - <a name="Aimage-0005" id="Aimage-0005"> + <a id="Aimage-0005"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pb052.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Funeral of the Countess " /><br /> + <img src="images/pb052.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Funeral of the Countess "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -12924,16 +12886,16 @@ procuring success.” towards which the mourners had bent their course. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0005" id="Alink2HCH0005"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0005"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FIFTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> O weel may the boatie row And better may she speed, And weel may the boatie row @@ -13354,16 +13316,16 @@ procuring success.” of order, retired to rest the last of the family. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0006" id="Alink2HCH0006"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0006"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SIXTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —Many great ones Would part with half their states, to have the plan And credit to beg in the first style. @@ -13815,16 +13777,16 @@ procuring success.” stationed. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0007" id="Alink2HCH0007"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0007"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SEVENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —This ring.— This little ring, with necromantic force, Has raised the ghost of pleasure to my fears, @@ -14074,16 +14036,16 @@ procuring success.” signal of departure, which the mendicant instantly obeyed. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0008" id="Alink2HCH0008"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0008"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER EIGHTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> For he was one in all their idle sport, And like a monarch, ruled their little court The pliant bow he formed, the flying ball, @@ -14373,16 +14335,16 @@ procuring success.” had not better merited his fate by killing Dousterswivel outright. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0009" id="Alink2HCH0009"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0009"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER NINTH </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Who is he?—One that for the lack of land Shall fight upon the water—he hath challenged Formerly the grand whale; and by his titles @@ -14488,7 +14450,7 @@ procuring success.” the reign of that empress of superstition, whom Spenser, Caxon, terms in his allegorical phrase, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —The daughter of that woman blind, Abessa, daughter of Corecca slow— </pre> @@ -14549,7 +14511,7 @@ procuring success.” and left behind them traces of their arts and arms, is gone—annihilated—reduced to such fragments as might be the shreds of a broken-flowerpot! </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —Hector, I love thee, But never more be officer of mine.” </pre> @@ -14660,7 +14622,7 @@ procuring success.” about its precise texture and price. Oh, one might parody their brutal ignorance in the words of Gray: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of wit and sense, Dull garment of defensive proof, @@ -14676,7 +14638,7 @@ procuring success.” by impunity, she actually ate up Mr. Oldbuck’s toast, as, looking first at one then at another of his audience, he repeated, with self-complacency, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Weave the warp and weave the woof,— </pre> <p> @@ -14728,7 +14690,7 @@ procuring success.” of that ancient country, the <i>officina gentium,</i> the mother of modern Europe, the nursery of those heroes, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Stern to inflict, and stubborn to endure, Who smiled in death?— </pre> @@ -14855,7 +14817,7 @@ procuring success.” exquisite felicity of the first two or three lines, he said the sense was to this purpose: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Patrick the psalm-singer, Since you will not listen to one of my stories, Though you never heard it before, @@ -14879,7 +14841,7 @@ procuring success.” <p> “Well then, Patrick replies to Ossian: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Upon my word, son of Fingal, While I am warbling the psalms, The clamour of your old women’s tales @@ -14902,7 +14864,7 @@ procuring success.” <p> “Then,” said M’Intyre, “this is the answer of Ossian: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Dare you compare your psalms, You son of a—” </pre> @@ -14913,7 +14875,7 @@ procuring success.” “It means, I think,” said the young soldier, with some reluctance, “son of a female dog: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Do you compare your psalms, To the tales of the bare-arm’d Fenians” </pre> @@ -14931,7 +14893,7 @@ procuring success.” Disdaining to reply to this insinuation, Hector proceeded in his recitation: </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “I shall think it no great harm To wring your bald head from your shoulders— </pre> @@ -14996,16 +14958,16 @@ procuring success.” be the prop of Troy, and thou to be the plague of Monkbarns!” </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0010" id="Alink2HCH0010"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0010"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Tell me not of it, friend—when the young weep, Their tears are luke-warm brine;—from your old eyes Sorrow falls down like hail-drops of the North, @@ -15308,16 +15270,16 @@ procuring success.” again visiting the cottage as he passed. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0011" id="Alink2HCH0011"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0011"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER ELEVENTH </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> What is this secret sin, this untold tale, That art cannot extract, nor penance cleanse? —Her muscles hold their place; @@ -15627,16 +15589,16 @@ procuring success.” of her communication is disclosed in the following CHAPTER. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0012" id="Alink2HCH0012"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0012"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWELFTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Remorse—she neer forsakes us— A bloodhound staunch—she tracks our rapid step Through the wild labyrinth of youthful frenzy, @@ -16060,11 +16022,11 @@ procuring success.” you forgive me?” </p> <p> - <a name="Aimage-0006" id="Aimage-0006"> + <a id="Aimage-0006"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pb150.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Lord Glenallen and Elspeth " /><br /> + <img src="images/pb150.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="Lord Glenallen and Elspeth "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -16096,16 +16058,16 @@ procuring success.” cottage opening as she spoke, prevented her from proceeding. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0013" id="Alink2HCH0013"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0013"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Still in his dead hand clenched remain the strings That thrill his father’s heart—e’en as the limb, Lopped off and laid in grave, retains, they tell us, @@ -16540,16 +16502,16 @@ procuring success.” the Earl at liberty to arrange himself previous to dinner. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0014" id="Alink2HCH0014"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0014"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FOURTEENTH </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —Life, with you, Glows in the brain and dances in the arteries; ‘Tis like the wine some joyous guest hath quaffed, @@ -17042,16 +17004,16 @@ procuring success.” abused, the present to the uttermost. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0015" id="Alink2HCH0015"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0015"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together:— Youth is full of pleasance, @@ -17317,7 +17279,7 @@ procuring success.” lord, is what is running in Hector’s head—it is the vehicular, not the equestrian exercise, which he envies— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat. </pre> @@ -17478,16 +17440,16 @@ procuring success.” equipage had seemed to vanish from their eyes. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0016" id="Alink2HCH0016"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0016"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Yes! I love justice well—as well as you do— But since the good dame’s blind, she shall excuse me If, time and reason fitting, I prove dumb;— @@ -17861,16 +17823,16 @@ procuring success.” before the Antiquary concluded the sentence. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0017" id="Alink2HCH0017"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0017"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Well, well, at worst, ‘tis neither theft nor coinage, Granting I knew all that you charge me with. What though the tomb hath borne a second birth, @@ -17893,11 +17855,11 @@ procuring success.” sorry, Edie, to see you so much cast down about this matter.” </p> <p> - <a name="Aimage-0007" id="Aimage-0007"> + <a id="Aimage-0007"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pb206.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Antiquary Visits Edie in Prison " /><br /> + <img src="images/pb206.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Antiquary Visits Edie in Prison "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -18158,7 +18120,7 @@ procuring success.” “Ah, Hector! thy great <i>chasse,</i> as the French call it, would take place best— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Omne cum Proteus pecus agitaret altos Visere montes— </pre> @@ -18186,7 +18148,7 @@ procuring success.” delighted with the hank this incident had given him over the young sportsman: One word more, Hector, and </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> We’ll hang a seal-skin on thy recreant limbs. </pre> <p> @@ -18271,16 +18233,16 @@ procuring success.” with his nephew, after having perfected their good work. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0018" id="Alink2HCH0018"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0018"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Full of wise saws and modern instances. As You Like It. </pre> @@ -18323,13 +18285,13 @@ procuring success.” he continued, relapsing into his ironical humour, “you have the <i>Gens humida ponti</i>—for, as Virgil says, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Sternunt se somno diversae in littore phocae; </pre> <p> which might be rendered, </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Here phocae slumber on the beach, Within our Highland Hector’s reach. </pre> @@ -18650,16 +18612,16 @@ procuring success.” fickle us a’.” </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0019" id="Alink2HCH0019"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0019"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER NINETEENTH </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Life ebbs from such old age, unmarked and silent, As the slow neap-tide leaves yon stranded galley.— Late she rocked merrily at the least impulse @@ -18676,7 +18638,7 @@ procuring success.” shrill tremulous voice of Elspeth chanting forth an old ballad in a wild and doleful recitative. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “The herring loves the merry moonlight, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, @@ -18689,7 +18651,7 @@ procuring success.” old woman spoke as if to the children—“Oh ay, hinnies, whisht! whisht! and I’ll begin a bonnier ane than that— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Now haud your tongue, baith wife and carle, And listen, great and sma’, And I will sing of Glenallan’s Earl @@ -18720,7 +18682,7 @@ procuring success.” “Hush! hush!” said the Antiquary—“she has gotten the thread of the story again. “—And as he spoke, she sung— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “They saddled a hundred milk-white steeds, They hae bridled a hundred black, With a chafron of steel on each horse’s head, @@ -18730,7 +18692,7 @@ procuring success.” “Chafron!” exclaimed the Antiquary,—“equivalent, perhaps, to <i>cheveron;</i>—the word’s worth a dollar,”—and down it went in his red book. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “They hadna ridden a mile, a mile, A mile, but barely ten, When Donald came branking down the brae @@ -18767,7 +18729,7 @@ procuring success.” Her voice rose and became more animated as she recited the warlike counsel of her ancestor— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “Were I Glenallan’s Earl this tide, And ye were Roland Cheyne, The spur should be in my horse’s side, @@ -18871,7 +18833,7 @@ procuring success.” misfortunes, respect at least her old age and grey hairs: this is the last stage of existence, so finely treated by the Latin poet— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> —Omni Membrorum damno major dementia, quae nec Nomina, servorum, nec vultus agnoscit amici, @@ -18930,7 +18892,7 @@ procuring success.” mistress. Ye ken how the rhyme says—I hae maist forgotten how to sing, or else the tune’s left my auld head— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> “He turn’d him right and round again, Said, Scorn na at my mither; Light loves I may get mony a ane, @@ -19014,7 +18976,7 @@ procuring success.” <p> * Note I. Elspeth’s death. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Edie ran to support her, but hardly got her in his arms, before he said, “It’s a’ ower—she has passed away even with that last word.” </pre> @@ -19126,7 +19088,7 @@ procuring success.” of the Antiquary, upon such a topic, only answered with a heedless “Never fear—never fear, sir.” </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> With that he gave his able horse the head, And, bending forward, struck his armed heels Against the panting sides of his poor jade, @@ -19154,16 +19116,16 @@ procuring success.” anxiously summoned thither. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0020" id="Alink2HCH0020"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0020"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTIETH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> So, while the Goose, of whom the fable told, Incumbent, brooded o’er her eggs of gold, With hand outstretched, impatient to destroy, @@ -19197,7 +19159,7 @@ procuring success.” In this mood, if any one endeavoured to bring Sir Arthur down to the regions of common life, his replies were in the vein of Ancient Pistol— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> A fico for the world, and worldlings base I speak of Africa and golden joys! </pre> @@ -19684,16 +19646,16 @@ procuring success.” reached the Castle. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0021" id="Alink2HCH0021"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0021"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Let those go see who will—I like it not— For, say he was a slave to rank and pomp, And all the nothings he is now divorced from @@ -20114,16 +20076,16 @@ procuring success.” conversation. The cause we must refer to the next CHAPTER. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0022" id="Alink2HCH0022"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0022"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Fortune, you say, flies from us—She but circles, Like the fleet sea-bird round the fowler’s skiff,— Lost in the mist one moment, and the next @@ -20187,11 +20149,11 @@ procuring success.” turning round, he addressed the astonished audience as follows:— </p> <p> - <a name="Aimage-0008" id="Aimage-0008"> + <a id="Aimage-0008"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pb271.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="My Good Friends, ‘favete Linguis’ " /><br /> + <img src="images/pb271.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="My Good Friends, ‘favete Linguis’ "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -20546,16 +20508,16 @@ procuring success.” mutual regard, and an agreement to meet again as soon as possible. </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0023" id="Alink2HCH0023"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0023"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Nay, if she love me not, I care not for her: Shall I look pale because the maiden blooms Or sigh because she smiles, and smiles on others @@ -20846,7 +20808,7 @@ procuring success.” <p> “What! so your martial spirit is rising again, Edie? </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Even in our ashes glow their wonted fires! </pre> <p> @@ -20942,16 +20904,16 @@ procuring success.” bit crack wi’ Monkbarns.” </p> <p> - <a name="Alink2HCH0024" id="Alink2HCH0024"> + <a id="Alink2HCH0024"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Red glared the beacon on Pownell On Skiddaw there were three; The bugle horn on moor and fell @@ -21007,11 +20969,11 @@ procuring success.” chorus of an opera. </p> <p> - <a name="Aimage-0009" id="Aimage-0009"> + <a id="Aimage-0009"> <!-- IMG --></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:60%;"> - <img src="images/pb294.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Antiquary Arming " /><br /> + <img src="images/pb294.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="The Antiquary Arming "><br > </div> <!-- IMAGE END --> <p> @@ -21443,11 +21405,11 @@ procuring success.” risk or expense to THE ANTIQUARY. </p> <p> - <a name="link2H_NOTE" id="link2H_NOTE"> + <a id="link2H_NOTE"> <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> NOTES TO THE ANTIQUARY. @@ -21610,7 +21572,7 @@ procuring success.” partiality. In Prior’s time the English bakers had the same sort of reckoning. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Have you not seen a baker’s maid, Between two equal panniers sway’d? Her tallies useless lie and idle, @@ -21822,7 +21784,7 @@ procuring success.” for centuries. It was particularly remembered, that the Liddesdale men, before mentioned, entered Kelso playing the lively tune— </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> O wha dare meddle wi’ me, And wha dare meddle wi’ me! My name it is little Jock Elliot, @@ -21848,377 +21810,8 @@ procuring success.” determined opposition from the children of the soil. </p> <div style="height: 6em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br > </div> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg’s The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ANTIQUARY *** - -***** This file should be named 7005-h.htm or 7005-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - https://www.gutenberg.org/7/0/0/7005/ - -Produced by David Widger - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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