The green herb is all the food they afford, and the limpid water their best beverage." "Ah!" returned Helen, with grateful animation, "would to Heaven that all who love the freedom of Scotland were now within this glen! The herb and the stream would be luxuries when tasted in liberty and hope.
My father, his friend-" she stopped, recollecting that she had almost betrayed the secrecy she meant to maintain, and looking down, remained in confused silence.

The knight gazed at her, and much wished to penetrate what she concealed, but delicacy forbade him to urge her again.

He spoke not; but the hermit, ignorant of her reluctance to reveal her family, resumed: "I do not wonder, gentle lady, that you speak in terms which tell me even your tender sex feels the tyranny of Edward.

Who in Scotland is exempt?
The whole country groans beneath his oppressions, and the cruelty of his agents makes its rivulets run with blood.

Six months ago I was Abbot of Scone.