Chambers's Papers for the People
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ISBN13: 9780217456005
Paperback|9780217456005
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LAST OF THE RUTHVENS. ' TvAVIE CALDERWOOD worthy tutor and master ?Davie Calder- J wood.'?The old man made no answer to the call, which he scarce seemed even to hear. He sat not far from the shadow of his college walls, watching the little silvery ripples of the Cam. His doctor's robes hid a common homely dress of gray; his large feet, dangling over the river bank, were clumsily shod, and his white close-cropped hair gave him a Puritanical look, when compared with the cavalier air of the two youths who stood behind him. 'Davie Calderwood?wake up, man News ? great news From Scotland ' added the elder lad in a cautious whisper. It pierced the torpor of the old man: he started up with trembling eagerness. ' Eh, my clear bairn ?I mean my lord?my Lord Gowrie ' ' Hush ' said the youth bitterly; ' let not the birds of the air carry that sound. Was it not crushed out of the earth a year ago ? Call me William Ruthven, or else plain William, till with my good sword I win back my title and my father's name.' ' Willie?Willie ' murmured the younger brother in anxious warning. ' He is afraid?wee Patrick ' laughed William Ruthven. ' He thinks that walls have ears, and rivers tongues, and that every idle word I say will go with speed to the vain, withered old hag in London, or to daft King Jamie in Edinburgh He thinks he shall yet see brother Willie's love-locks floating from the top of the Tolbooth beside those of winsome Aleck and noble John.' The elder youth spoke in that bitter jesting tone used to hide keenest suffering; but the younger one, a slight delicate boy of nineteen, clung to his brother's arm, and burst into tears. ' My lord, ' said Master David Calderwood, ' ye suld be mair tender o' the lad?your ae brother?your mother's youngest bairn Ye ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217456005 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217456006 |
| Weight | 1.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.07 In |
| List Price | $35.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 482 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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