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"Then, may I never stir frae the bit," said Elliot, "if auld Ellieslaw is not at the bottom o' the haill villainy! Ye see he's leagued wi' the Cumberland Catholics; and that agrees weel wi' what Elshie hinted about Westburnflat, for Ellieslaw aye protected him, and he will want to harry and disarm the country about his ain hand before he breaks out."
"I embrace it," said Ellieslaw; "and I will leave you to talk upon our military preparations, while I go to prepare my daughter for so sudden a change of condition." So saying, he left the company. He brings Earl Osmond to receive my vows. O dreadful change! for Tancred, haughty Osmond. Mr.
"To have served your cousin is a sufficient reward in itself Good evening, gentlemen," continued Earnscliff; "I see most of your party are already on their way to Ellieslaw."
"In what respect," said Ellieslaw, silencing, with a motion of his hand, his impetuous kinsman "how have I disappointed you, Sir Frederick?" "In the nearest and most tender point you have trifled with me concerning our proposed alliance, which you well knew was the gage of our political undertaking.
On the morning preceding the night in which Hobbie's house was plundered and burnt, Miss Vere was requested by her father to accompany him in a walk through a distant part of the romantic grounds which lay round his castle of Ellieslaw.
Sir Frederick Langley was reserved, moody, and discontented. Ellieslaw himself made such forced efforts to raise the spirits of the company, as plainly marked the flagging of his own. Ratcliffe watched the scene with the composure of a vigilant but uninterested spectator.
Mareschal alone, true to the thoughtless vivacity of his character, ate and drank, laughed and jested, and seemed even to find amusement in the embarrassment of the company. "What has damped our noble courage this morning?" he exclaimed. "You speak like a madman," said Ellieslaw; "do you not see how many are absent?" "And what of that?" said Mareschal.
The chapel in the castle of Ellieslaw, destined to be the scene of this ill-omened union, was a building of much older date than the castle itself, though that claimed considerable antiquity.
"Who is he that wishes for more men from England," exclaimed Mareschal, in a theatrical tone of affected heroism, "My cousin Ellieslaw? No, my fair cousin, If we are doom'd to die " "For God's sake," said Ellieslaw, "spare us your folly at present, Mareschal." "Well, then," said his kinsman, "I'll bestow my wisdom upon you instead, such as it is.
Ratcliffe, who, moreover, exacted from me mortgages over my paternal estate of Ellieslaw for any sums which I required as an extra advance; and thus may be said to have insinuated himself into the absolute management and control of my property.
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