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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: Chapter in. An Escape. How awful this proud height?this brow of brows, Which every steep surmounts and awes sublime The subjects down below Nature wears here Her boldest countenance Htjedis. The way is more and more wild; the night is fast gathering; art thou confident that hospitality is not far off?...
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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: Chapter in. An Escape. How awful this proud height?this brow of brows, Which every steep surmounts and awes sublime The subjects down below Nature wears here Her boldest countenance Htjedis. The way is more and more wild; the night is fast gathering; art thou confident that hospitality is not far off? inquired Murdoch the Bardh, as he paced with rapid step a path little trodden, over which the brambles had here and there stretched their lank and tangled arms; and frequently the bushes embraced overhead, making a bower of soft green light, which occasionally gave place on a sudden to the brighter crimson hues of an evening sky. My life on't, was the reply of his companion, a tall slender man, arrayed after the manner of travellers who wisely avoid all such decorations as might attract the covetous gaze of the plunderer. A bearskin cloak enshrouded the greater portion of his person, and exposed to view only an under garment of leather. Pale brown hair streamed on his shoulders; his eyes were grey and marked by a peculiar expression of cunning, as if he sought by art to compensate for his evident want of personal strength. He sometimes led the way, sometimes followed the Bardh, through the impeded path, and certainly there was little show of hostility in his manner or address. Knowest thou of any retreat hereabouts, continued Murdoch, any haunt of lawless men where plunder may be secured or prisoners protected from pursuit? Many such there be in this land, and some not far from the spot whereon we move. Bright eyes there be and fair young faces in those secret mansions who were nobly born and ought to grace a court instead of the hold of a robber. Dost thou indeed deem so ? Surely high-born dames are not subjected to such a wrong, observ...