The Surgeon S Daughter And Castle Dangerous Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Surgeon's Daughter, And, Castle Dangerous And what would you do 1' said Reason, after a few moments' re ection. You are ambitious of introducing your book into every writing and reading chamber in Edinburgh, and yet you take fire at the thoughts of its being criticised by Mr. Fair scribe's young people! Be a little consistent, for shame.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from The Heart of Midlothian; The Surgeon's Daughter; Castle Dangerous Mrs. Goldie endeavoured to collect further particulars of Helen Walker, particularly concernin her joume to London, but found this nearly impossible; as 0 natural 5n of her character, and a high sense of family bility, made her so indissolubly connect her sister's disgrace with her own exer tions, that none of her neighbours durst ever question her upon the subject. One Old woman, a distant relation of Helen's, and who is still living, says she worked an harvest with her, but that she never ventured to ask her about her sister's trial, or her journey to London. Helen, she added, was a lofiy body, and used a high style 0' language. The same Old woman says that every, year Helen received a cheese from her sister, who lived at hitehaven, and that she alwa sent a liberal portion of it to herself or to her father's y. This fact, though trivial in itself, stro ly marks the afl'ection sub sisting between the two sisters, an the com lete conviction on the mind of the criminal that her sister acted solely from high principle, not from an want of feeling, which another small but c racteristic trait wil further illustrate. A ntleman, a relation of Ms. Goldie's, who happened to be trave °ng in the North of England, on coming to a small inn, was shown into the rlour by a female servant, who, after cautiously shutting the cor, said, Sir, I'm Nelly Walker's sister Thus practically showing that she considered her sister as better known b her high conduct than even herself by a different kind of cele rity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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