An Historical Romance.
BY JAMES GRANT, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF
"THE ROMANCE OF WAR, OR THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS,"
"MEMOIRS OF KIRKALDY OF GRANGE," &C.
Dost thou admit his right,
Thus to transfer our ancient Scottish crown?
Ay, Scotland was a kingdom once,
And, by the might of God, a kingdom still shall be!
ROBERT THE BRUCE, ACT II.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1850.
Contents
I. Lilian
II. How Clermistonlee Pressed His Suit
III. Claverhouse to the Rescue
IV. The Secret Stair
V. The Attempt
VI. Edinburgh—The Night of the Revolution
VII. Sack of Holyrood
VIII. The Veiled Picture
IX. Love and Principle
X. The Pass of Killycrankie
XI. The Last Hour of Dundee
XII. St. Germains
XIII. The Cavaliers of Dundee
XIV. The 20th of September, 1692
XV. The Effect of the Postscriptum
XVI. The Battle of Steinkirke
XVII. A Disclosure
XVIII. Walter Fenton and the King
XIX. The Returned Exile
XX. The Bubble Burst
XXI. Love and Marriage are Two
XXII. The Ring and the Secret
XXIII. The Iron Room—The Death Shot
WALTER FENTON;
OR
THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER.
I love thee, gentle Knight! but 'tis,
Such love as sisters bear;
O, ask my heart no more than this,
For more it may not spare.
KNIGHT TOGGENBURG.
The image of Clermistonlee and his threatscame painfully upon Lilian's memory. Sheshrieked for aid, but her cries were lost in thevacuity of the old-fashioned coach in which shewas being carried off. She strove to open thewindows, but they were immoveable as those ofa castle, and she resigned herself to tears anddespair. The vehicle was rumbling and joltingover a waste of frozen snow; here and there, afarm-house or a congealed rivulet were passed,but everything appeared so strange and new, whenviewed in their snowy guise by the twilight of themirky winter night, that Lilian had not the mostremot