Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, Volumes 3-4W. Scott, 1888 |
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Page 54
... thought still haunts me as a spectre , that I may be once more , by some other cause not less fortuitous than that which then took me out of the region of experience , precipitated , in spite of all my care , into some new position ...
... thought still haunts me as a spectre , that I may be once more , by some other cause not less fortuitous than that which then took me out of the region of experience , precipitated , in spite of all my care , into some new position ...
Page 79
... thought I heard a sound above , unlike that of the apparatus by which the bell was wrought . It was a creaking , crashing sound , as if the bell were forcing up some heavy piece of wood with which it was encumbered . The thought struck ...
... thought I heard a sound above , unlike that of the apparatus by which the bell was wrought . It was a creaking , crashing sound , as if the bell were forcing up some heavy piece of wood with which it was encumbered . The thought struck ...
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... thought I , the hour on which Clara Douglas ascended this hill was as lovely as this evening , she must indeed have been deeply bent upon her own destruction , to look upon the world so beautifully fair , and not wish to return to it ...
... thought I , the hour on which Clara Douglas ascended this hill was as lovely as this evening , she must indeed have been deeply bent upon her own destruction , to look upon the world so beautifully fair , and not wish to return to it ...
Contents
WIDOW OF DUNSKAITII Hugh Miller | 1 |
THE WHITSOME TRAGEDY John Mackay Wilson | 20 |
THE SURGEONS TALES Alexander Leighton | 53 |
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