[Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookBride of Lammermoor CHAPTER XIX 9/9
Having told you this--if you are indeed a gentleman and your father's son--you will make it a motive for flying from her presence.
Her passion will die like a lamp for want of that the flame should feed upon; but, if you remain here, her destruction, or yours, or that of both, will be the inevitable consequence of her misplaced attachment.
I tell you this secret unwillingly, but it could not have been hid long from your own observation, and it is better you learn it from mine.
Depart, Master of Ravenswood; you have my secret.
If you remain an hour under Sir William Ashton's roof without the resolution to marry his daughter, you are a villain; if with the purpose of allying yourself with kin, you are an infatuated and predestined fool." So saying, the old blind woman arose, assumed her staff, and, tottering to her hut, entered it and closed the door, leaving Ravenswood to his own reflections..
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