Sir Walter Scott
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Aug. 19, 2014)
The sun was nearly set behind the distant mountains of Liddesdale, when a few of the scattered and terrified inhabitants of the village of Hersildoun, which had four days before been burned by a predatory band of English Borderers, were now busied in repairing their ruined dwellings. One high tower in the centre of the village alone exhibited no appearance of devastation. It was surrounded with court walls, and the outer gate was barred and bolted. The bushes and brambles which grew around, and had even insinuated their branches beneath the gate, plainly showed that it must have been many years since it had been opened. While the cottages around lay in smoking ruins, this pile, deserted and desolate as it seemed to be, had suffered nothing from the violence of the invaders; and the wretched beings who were endeavouring to repair their miserable huts against nightfall, seemed to neglect the preferable shelter which it might have afforded them, without the necessity of labour.
- ISBN
- 1500582670 / 9781500582678
- Pages
- 190
- Weight
- 19.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 0.4 in.
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