Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... these words he had relinquished her to her husband. But in them she saw nothing mimical to her wishes; it was a caution, not a reproof; and had not his warmer address to Helen conjured up all the fiends of jealously in her mind, she would have been perfectly satisfied-with her grounds of hope. Eager, therefore, to break away from Lord Mar's projects relating to his daughter, at the first decent opportunity, she said, --We will consider more of this hereafter, Donald. I now resign you to the duties of your office and shall pay mine to our dear Helen. Lord Mar pressed her hand to his lips, and they parted. CHAPTER VII. THE fame of these victories, the seizure of Stirling, the conquest of above sixty thousand men, and the Lord Warden with his late deputy taken prisoners; all spread through the country on the wings of the wind. Messengers were dispatched by Wallace, not only to the nobles who had already declared for the cause, by sending him their armed followers; but to the clans who yet stood irresolute. But to the chieftains who had taken the side of Edward he sent no exhortation. And when he was advised to do so, by Lord Ruthven, his answer was, no, my lord; we must not spread a snare under our feet.---If these men could be effected by the interest of their country, as they have the power to befriend her, they would not now colleague with their enemies. They remember her happiness under the rule of our Alexandeis; they see her sufferings beneath the sway of an usurper; and if they can know these things and be unmoved, and require arguments to bring them tq their duty; should they then come to it, it would not be to fulfil, but to betray.--Ours, my dear Ruthven, is a commission from Heaven. The truth of our cause is God's own lignet; and..