[Old Mortality<br> Complete, Illustrated by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link book
Old Mortality
Complete, Illustrated

CHAPTER XII
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He has gone to church service with me fifty times, and I never heard him miss one of the responses in my life.

Edith Bellenden can bear witness to it as well as I.He always read on the same Prayer-book with her, and could look out the lessons as well as the curate himself.

Call him up; let him be heard for himself." "There can be no harm in that," said Claverhouse, "whether he be innocent or guilty .-- Major Allan," he said, turning to the officer next in command, "take a guide, and lead the regiment forward to Loudon-hill by the best and shortest road.

Move steadily, and do not let the men blow the horses; Lord Evandale and I will overtake you in a quarter of an hour.

Leave Bothwell with a party to bring up the prisoners." Allan bowed, and left the apartment, with all the officers, excepting Claverhouse and the young nobleman.


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