The Laird of Norlaw: A Scottish StoryHarper & brothers, 1859 - 390 Seiten |
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Seite 191 - Cosmo had that facility of language, and even of idea, which many very youthful people, with a "literary turn " (they were very much less common in these days), often possess, to the half-amusement, half-admiration of their seniors, and their own intense confusion in maturer days. Literature was not then what it is now, the common resource of most well-educated young men, who do not know what else to do with themselves. It was still a rare glory in that rural district where the mantle of Sir Walter...
Seite 80 - A' this auld machinery of the warld creaks like an auld bellows. There's naething but delusions on every side of ye. Ye canna be clear of a single thing that ye havena conquished for yoursel'." Huntley, who had come out of the languid August afternoon, red in a glow of sunshine and heat, to which the very idea of long labour was alien, which accorded well enough with his own ambitious dreams and thoughts of sudden fortune — could not help feeling somehow as if Jacob's hammer, beneath the stroke...
Seite 58 - ... and soberly, so that no one knew of her discovery, but she had never got beyond this abiding mortification and injury ; and it was not much wonder that she started with a sudden burst of exasperated feeling, when Cosmo, her own son, echoed his father's foolish words. Her youngest boy, her favourite and last nursling, the one bird that was to be left in the nest, could stir to this same mad search, when he had not yet ambition enough to stir for his own fortune. It was the last drop which made...
Seite 162 - However, I mean to write him to tell him he must come this summer. Your Huntley is away too. Isn't it strange to live at home always the same, and have so near a friend as a brother far, far away, and never be able to know what he is doing? Oswald might be ill just now for anything we know ; but I mean to write and tell him he must come to see Desiree, for that is what I have set my heart upon since I knew her first.
Seite 384 - My child, it is justice," cried Madame Roche, through her tears ; " give him your hand — it is that Huntley may have his own." " But there is some strange mistake here," said Huntley, whose brow burned with a painful flush ; " Melmar was never mine, nor had I any real right to it. Years ago I have even forgotten that it once was possible. Be silent for a moment, Cosmo, I beg of you, and you, Mademoiselle Desiree, do not fear. Madame Roche, I thank you for your generous meaning, but it is an entire...
Seite 248 - I'll tell you mair." Desiree had sunk lower on her knees, leaning back, with her head turned anxiously towards the story-teller. She was an interested listener at least. " It's aye thought she was disinherited," said Aunt Jean, " and at the first, when she ran away, maybe so she was — but nature will speak. When this silly auld man, as I'm saying, died, he left a will setting up her rights, and left it in the hand of another silly haverel of a man, that was a bit sma