Hill-side and Border sketches Volume 2; With legends of the Cheviots and the Lammermuir

Hill-side and Border sketches Volume 2; With legends of the Cheviots and the Lammermuir

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1847 Excerpt: ... "Ay," shouted the stout prisoner, as carried away by passion, he plucked a sealed packet from his breast. "Here is our authority," and he held the parchment with a look of triumph towards young Maxwell. "Pish!" said the latter contemptuously, and snatching the document from the stranger's grasp--"Break not one seal," exclaimed the second prisoner. "I warn you that the penalty will be high treason." "Thou cogging knave!" continued the youth unalarmed; "impose thy cock-a-bull stories upon us! Wax, with your leave, as the playman saith;" and, ere the words had passed his lips, the silk and seals, by which the packet had been secured, were broken. "By the true Lord!" exclaimed the stouter stranger, "an' this be not treason, I marvel what the word means." "I'faith! treason--and that indubitably," returned Maxwell. "Listen, James: here come these false knaves forging the royal signature to arrest divers of the best and truest subjects a king could own. Imprimis--' James, earl of Derwentwater,' know you that trusty noble?" "I have seen him. What! arrest him? No--no," said the earl with a smile. "Read, and be satisfied;" and he flung a parchment scroll across the table, which his companion proceeded to detail aloud. "And lo ye! here," he exclaimed, "Wot ye who comes next? I'faith, none less than William, earl of Nithsdale!" "Ay--by'r lady! and I would not marvel that the young roue, the Master, followed his noble brother," observed the younger shooter. "Know you him?" inquired the stout stranger, eagerly. "Know him? ay, full well; and upon my conscience, as a Christian man, I can say but little in his favour," replied the sportsman. "Would that we could but meet him," Was the reply. "You must seek him, as I guess, in France. Report has it, that George Maxwell has g...

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