Category: Historical Novels
It was an early Spring eve in a year long before King James III. of Scotland perished in his flight from the lost field of Sauchieburn, and was succeeded on the throne by his son, Prince James, who headed the rebellion which resulted in the hapless monarch’s assassination at B...
What a cry that was--“Would you slay your son?” Had the proud, noble, childless knight of Warkcliff--the last of his illustrious line--lamented the fate of the lost infant so lo...
7. CHAPTER VII.Aft trifles big mishanters bring, Frae whilk a hunder mair may spring; An’ some, wha thrawart tempers ha’e, Aft stand unkent in their ain way; But aye, to guard against a coup,...
1. CHAPTER I.It was an early Spring eve in a year long before King James III. of Scotland perished in his flight from the lost field of Sauchieburn, and was succeeded on the throne by his so...
6. CHAPTER VI.Neither of the contending parties had yet appeared on the ground, although the hour of meeting was rather past, as shown by the position of the sun in the cloudless firmament. T...
2. CHAPTER II.He’s married a may, and he’s fessen her hame; But she was a grim and a laidly dame. When into the castle court drave she, The seven bairns stood wi’ the tear in their e’e. Nor a...
5. CHAPTER V.When our two road-companions left their pallets and returned to the kitchen or main-room of the cottage, the goodwife was setting out materials for breakfast. The windows were w...
3. CHAPTER III.Deeply chagrined, deeply grieved was the knight of Hawksglen, when, on his return, he was told by Eustace of what the lady had disclosed. Sir James, who hitherto had habitually...
4. CHAPTER IV.As the self-exiled Eustace pursued his route, in troubled reverie, he was soon hailed by a masculine voice from a straggling thicket near the wayside. Glancing in that direction...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Die! Not while there was a hand to save! Not while there was keen steel unsheathing to break the captive’s bonds! Not while there was a power to control evil destiny, and blast...
9. CHAPTER IX.When Ruthven mounted his steed, and passed the gate of Hawksglen, he found that all his followers, with the exception of Edie Johnston, had retired. Laden with booty, they had m...
11. CHAPTER XI.On the following forenoon the captive outlaw was brought up from his cell to be confronted with De Ermstein, in the great hall of the castle. When the myrmidons intimated this t...
12. CHAPTER XII.“The last, the fatal hour is come That bears my love from me; I hear the death-note of the drum, I mark the gallows tree. The bell has toll’d; it shakes my heart; The trumpet sp...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Little did Ruthven Somervil reck that Edie Johnston, whom he had so valiantly defended, was the man who had slipped him through the portal of Hawksglen on that long-past night....
10. CHAPTER X.But young Beichan was a Christian born, And still a Christian was he, Which made them put him in prison strang, And cauld and hunger sair to dree, And fed on nocht but bread and...
15. CHAPTER XV.Who may imagine and depict the emotions of Lady de Ermstein on being presented with her long-lost son--that son whose loss was breaking her heart? Like one in a dream she heard...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Nothing remains to close the tale save the nuptials of the hero and heroine. Everything has been briefly (and, we trust, satisfactorily) disposed of, so that, at the merry tinkl...