The Heart of Midlothian, And, the Bride of Lammermoor (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Walter Scott |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 2017-11-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780331714449 |
Excerpt from The Heart of Midlothian, And, the Bride of Lammermoor Ix 1 waverley novels. Whose distance roaring swells and fa's. As my kitchen and parlor were not very far distant, I one day went in to purchase some chickens from a person I heard offering them for sale. It was a little, rather stout-looking woman, who seemed to be between seventy and eighty years of age she was almost covered with a tartan plaid, and her Cap had over it a black silk hood tied under the chin, a piece of dress still much in use among elderly women of that rank of life in Scotland her eyes were dark, and remark ably lively and intelligent. I entered into conversation with her, and began by asking how she maintained herself, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.