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'We shall hardly, said he one morning to Waverley, when they had been viewing the castle, 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, PARETARIA, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle. For this opinion, he gave most learned and satisfactory reasons, that the reader may not care to hear repeated.
'We shall hardly, said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle. For this opinion he gave most learned and satisfactory reasons, that the reader may not care to hear repeated.
This lasts till one; and just as they are at their lunch, and about to go off, guard is relieved by the Laird and Lady Harden, and Miss Eliza Scott and my dear Chief, whom I love very much, though a little obsidional or so, remains till three.
'We shall hardly, said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle. For this opinion he gave most learned and satisfactory reasons, that the reader may not care to hear repeated.
I spoke at once upon the impulse of the moment, with a sense of reckless desperation not unlike that with which an artillerist fires the train whose explosion may win for him the obsidional wreath or blow him into atoms.
'We shall hardly, said he one morning to Waverley when they had been viewing the Castle 'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle. For this opinion he gave most learned and satisfactory reasons, that the reader may not care to hear repeated.
He punished with death or ignominy the misbehavior of three troops of horse, who, in a skirmish with the Surenas, had lost their honor and one of their standards: and he distinguished with obsidional crowns the valor of the foremost soldiers, who had ascended into the city of Maogamalcha.
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