Bride of Lammermoor - Classic Reprint Author:Sir Walter Scott THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. CHAPTER I. Ay, and when huntsmen wind the merry horn, And from its covert starts the fearful prey, Who, ,varm'd with youth's blood in his swelling veins, Would, like a lifflless clod, outstretched Iifl, Shut out from all the fair creation offers? Ethwald, Act I. Scene I. LIGHT meals procure light slumbers; and therefore ... more »it is not surprising, that, considering the farB which Caleb's conscience, or llis necessity, assuming, as will sometimes happen, that disguise, had assigned to the guests of Wolf's Crag, their ~lumber8 should have been short. In the mOI'ning Bucklaw ruslled into his host's apartment with a loud halloo, which might havt> awaked tlIe dead. " Up! up I in the name of HeavCll-the hunters are out, the only piece of sport I have seen this month; and you lie here, lfaster, on a bed that has little to recommend it, excppt that it may be
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