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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: approaching revel. As tuey aproached nlgher and nigh- er to the shore, the sounds of mirth and music, the laugh, the halloo, and the shout, came thicker upon the ear, and in a trice the boat was moored, and lloland Graeoie hastened in quest of the chamberlain, that, being informed what time he had to his own disposal, he might lay it out to the best advantage. CHAPTER VI. Room for the master of ring, ye swains, Divide your crowded ranks?before him march The rural minstrelsy, the rattling drum, The clamorous war-pipe, and far echoing horn. Rural Sports.?Summervillb. No long space intervened ere Roland Graeine was able to discover among the crowd of revellers, who gambolled upon the open space which extends betwixt the village and the lake, a person of so great importance as doctor Luke Luntlin, upon whom devolved officially the charge of representing the lord of the land, and who was attended for support of his authority by a piper, a drummer, and four sturdy clowns armed with rusty hal- bens, garnished whh the party-coloured ribands, myrmidons, who, early as the day was, had already broken more than one head in the awful names of the laird of Lochle- Yen and his chamberlain., As soon as this dignitary was informed that the castle skiff had arrived with a g Jlant, .dressed like a lord's aon at least, wh-j desired presently to speak with him, he adjusted his ruff and his black coat, turned round h s girdle till the garnished hilt of his long rapier became visible, and walked with due solemnity toward the beach. SoK;inn indeed he was entitled to be, even on less .mportant occasions, for he had been bred to the vener tble study of medicine, as those acquainted with the science very soon discovered from the aphorisms which ornamented his discourse. His success had n...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217113175 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217113176 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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