The Scottish Cavalier: An Historical Romance, Volume 3 (of 3)

An Historical Romance.
BY JAMES GRANT, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF WAR, OR THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS, MEMOIRS OF KIRKALDY OF GRANGE, &C.
Dost thou admit his right, Thus to transfer our ancient Scottish crown? Ay, Scotland was a kingdom once, And, by the might of God, a kingdom still shall be! ROBERT THE BRUCE, ACT II.
IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III.
LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1850.
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WALTER FENTON;
THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER.
I love thee, gentle Knight! but 'tis, Such love as sisters bear; O, ask my heart no more than this, For more it may not spare. KNIGHT TOGGENBURG.
The image of Clermistonlee and his threats came painfully upon Lilian's memory. She shrieked for aid, but her cries were lost in the vacuity of the old-fashioned coach in which she was being carried off. She strove to open the windows, but they were immoveable as those of a castle, and she resigned herself to tears and despair. The vehicle was rumbling and jolting over a waste of frozen snow; here and there, a farm-house or a congealed rivulet were passed, but everything appeared so strange and new, when viewed in their snowy guise by the twilight of the mirky winter night, that Lilian had not the most remote idea in what direction she was taken; and, shuddering with cold and apprehension, the poor girl crouched down in a corner of the coach, and abandoned herself to grief and wretchedness.