Walter Scott epub Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (Classic Reprint)

Tsl IL etttrs tom ilinjfolH. ADVERTISEMENT. 1834. This Part contains Paul s Lettbrs to His Kiicspolk, written mostly during Sir Walter Scott stour on the Continent in the summer of 1815 and being indeed, to a oon derable extent, the substance of his private letters to his own family. LETTER I. PAUL TO HIS SISTBR MAROABBT. Introductory Sech Skknen The Fleming Houtu Women Drees Cottaget, It is three longweeks since I left the old mansionhouse, which, for years before, has not found me absent for three days, and yet no letter has assured its quiet inmates and neighbours whether my curiosity has met its punishment. Methinks I see the evening circle assembled, and anxiously expressing their doubts and fears on account of the adventurous traveller. The Major will talk of the dangers of outposts and free corps, and lament that I could not have inarched under the escort of his old messmates of the regiment The Laird will speak scholarly and wisely of the dangers of higliway robbery and overturns, in a country where there are neither justices of peace nor turnpikes. The Minister, again, will set up his old bugbears of the I nquisition, and of the Lady vv ho sitteth upon the Seven Hills. Peter, tlie politician, will have his anxious thoughts on the state of the public spirit in France, the prevalence of Jacobinical opinions, the reign of mobs, and of domiciliary visits the horrors of the lantern, and of the guillotine. And thou, my dear sister, whose life has been one unwearied course of affectionate interest in the health and happiness of a cross old l Mu:!lielor brother, what wofnl anticipations must thy imagination have added to this accumulation of dansers I Broken sleep, bad diet, hard lodging, and damp sheets, have, in your apprehension, already laid me up a patient in the caoaret of some miserable French village, which neither affords James s Powders, nor Daffy(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)