The Dominie's Legacy, Том 2W. Kidd, 1830 - 278 страници |
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affected Argyleshire Balgownie began Bless bonnie brae bride bridegroom canna Charles Whittingham churchyard Clachan Clyde Colin Grant companion Coronach countenance Craiglands curlers daugh daughter dinna door dress drew exclaimed eyes face father fear feelings female Firth Flora Fort George fortune forward frae gazed George George Blair girl Glasgow Gourock Govan grave green Greenock hands happy head heard heart Highland officer hill hope husband Inverness Kate lady Lillybrae look M'Leod marriage married Mary Ogilvie melancholy mind Miss Pounteney Moray Firth morning morning dress neighbourhood never night observed Ogilvie's passed Pattison pleasure road round Scotland seemed servant side silence sister solemn sorrow speak spirit stood strange talk tears tell thing thought tion took town vex'd walk wandered watched wedding Wee Watty whole wife window woman young youth
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Страница 20 - For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone...
Страница 114 - I will be any thing — every thing for you, consistent with honour — if you will, indeed, be also mine," she added, with her peculiar doubting and beseeching expression of countenance ; " if you will really make me your wedded wife, who am nae gentlewoman, but only your simple country Mary Ogilvie." Tears of rapture streamed from both our eyes, as, in broken sentences and passionate language, this final settlement of our long-cherished wishes was proposed and consented to between us ; and the...
Страница 115 - The very moon, as the old ballad has it, seemed to " shine blithe" in my face, as I bounded homewards ; and, as disregarding the opinion of the world, I rejoiced in the prospect of obtaining, at last, my yet lovely and blooming Mary Ogilvie. #*»***» Years again passed away, and the chapter of my history is nearly completed. I sat in my favourite room, one delicious morning, in a musing mood, which was only disturbed by the entrance of my steward, who ended some consultation, about my rural affairs,...
Страница 44 - ... a look up into my face of such appealing expression, that it smote me to the soul with agonizing conviction of injustice, and even cruelty to her, and took from me the power of giving utterance to the excuse which I meditated. I hesitated and stammered. " Mary Ogilvie," I at length said, " I cannot now tell you all the reasons; but, believe me, my heart was not in them, Mary. I denied myself much, much in not seeing you at least to talk of former happier days : but I learned that you were about...
Страница 111 - A thousand recollections crowded apon me, connected with this sacred spot ; our meeting here on the day of her wedding, and the impressive circumstances of that night, the last occasion on which I had seen her. At length I observed a shadow moving on the grass round by the foot of the hill, and in a few moments Mary Ogilvie, wrapped in a mantle, with a timid step, drew near to the spot where I was waiting. We stood for an instant, looking on one another, as if neither could speak or move. I stepped...
Страница 110 - ... myself at first, and suffered no other man to become, even outwardly, connected with her; before both of our hearts had been somewhat seared by an acquaintance with the painful realities of life. But it was not three years since I had attended her wedding; I was still not more than five-and-twenty, she was three years younger: though we were both in the widowed state, we were yet in youth; and " what happiness ! " I thought, " might we not still enjoy were we but united together.
Страница 36 - on the gallant Graeme ; For I'm won with the glance of his bright black ee !" So he's ta'en her east, and he's ta'en her west, And he's feasted her in ha' and bower ; But little has he thought on his bonnie dame, That mourn 'd in gloomy Todscliff Tower.
Страница 35 - Avon wood lee ? And did ye e'er hear of her brothers brave, Wha fought by the Warlock Tree? And did ye e'er hear of Todscliff Tower, That frowns o'er the dashing tide ? Or, of gallant Graeme, its stately lord, The Lothian's boast and pride ? The bonnie Alleen sat in her bower; And, O, she was fair to see ! For her skin was white, and her een were bright As the stars in the lift sae hie. Now the gallant Graeme was a hunting then, And he's stepped her bower within; And he's doff d his cap, and he's...
Страница 36 - d in gloomy Todscliff Tower. Then the merry bells did ring, and the tapers did blaze, When he wedded the southern lady gay : But a weird voice was heard, 'boon the revelrie, Saying, " Woe to the Graeme for the deed done this day...
Страница 15 - Mary's sake, an' see her booked. Now ye'll come early, Mr. George, and see Mary for auld lang syne. I've seen the day when I wadna hae liked to carry to you the news o' her marriage to another, but it's no for the pet lamb to company wi' the proud stag ; and poortith often parts gude company." When the old man was gone, I could not help feeling surprised at my own weakness, and at the little effect of my recent prudent reasoning ; for, although I never had seriously thought of marrying Mary Ogilvie...