Historical Fiction
We have strict statutes, and most biting laws-- The needful bits and curbs for headstrong steeds-- Which, for these fourteen years, we have let sleep, Like to an oíergrown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey. Measure for Measure.
It was an hour ere the jurors returned, and as they traversed the crowd with slow steps, as men about to discharge themselves of a heavy and painful responsibility, the audience...
11. Chapter 11I did send for thee, That Talbotís name might be in thee revived, When sapless age and weak, unable limbs, Should bring thy father to his drooping chair. But--O malignant and il...
10. Chapter 10We are under the necessity of returning to Edinburgh, where the General Assembly was now sitting. It is well known, that some Scottish nobleman is usually deputed as High Commis...
9. Chapter 9Not long after the incident of the Bible and the bank-notes, Fortune showed that she could surprise Mrs Butler as well as her husband. The Minister, in order to accomplish the v...
2. Chapter 2It is by no means my intention to describe minutely the forms of a Scottish criminal trial, nor am I sure that I could draw up an account so intelligible and accurate as to abid...
12. Chapter 12great increase of the crime of child-murder, both from the temptations to commit the offence and the difficulty of discovery enacted a certain set of presumptions, which, in the...
4. Chapter 4The next was the important day, when, according to the forms and ritual of the Scottish Kirk, Reuben Butler was to be ordained minister of Knocktarlitie, by the Presbytery of --...
7. Chapter 7The letter, which Mrs. Butler, when retired into her own apartment, perused with anxious wonder, was certainly from Effie, although it had no other signature than the letter E.;...
5. Chapter 5Now butt and ben the change-house fills Wií yill-caup commentators, Hereís crying out for bakes and gills, And there the pint-stoup clatters. Wií thick and thrang, and loud and...
1. Chapter 1We have strict statutes, and most biting laws-- The needful bits and curbs for headstrong steeds-- Which, for these fourteen years, we have let sleep, Like to an oíergrown lion...
6. Chapter 6Within a reasonable time after Butler was safely and comfortably settled in his living, and Jeanie had taken up her abode at Auchingower with her father,--the precise extent of...
8. Chapter 8Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenchíd by an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. Macbeth.