[Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookRob Roy CHAPTER THIRTEENTH 9/15
Besides, the fatal veil was wrapt round me in my cradle; for you may easily believe I have never thought of the detestable condition under which I may remove it. The time," she added, "for expressing my final determination is not arrived, and I would fain have the freedom of wild heath and open air with the other commoners of nature, as long as I can be permitted to enjoy them.
And now that the passage in Dante is made so clear, pray go and see what has become of the badger-baiters.
My head aches so much that I cannot join the party." I left the library, but not to join the hunters.
I felt that a solitary walk was necessary to compose my spirits before I again trusted myself in Rashleigh's company, whose depth of calculating villany had been so strikingly exposed to me.
In Dubourg's family (as he was of the reformed persuasion) I had heard many a tale of Romish priests who gratified, at the expense of friendship, hospitality, and the most sacred ties of social life, those passions, the blameless indulgence of which is denied by the rules of their order.
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