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The Black Dwarf-Part17_WALTER SCOTT(1771-1832)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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plague than the light-fingered courtier who would take a man's

all without troubling him with either thanks, explanation, or



apology. Hence, I say! thou art one of those tame slaves whose

word is as good as their bond. Keep the money, principal and



interest, until I demand it of thee."

"But," continued the pertinacious Borderer, "we are a' life-like



and death-like, Elshie, and there really should be some black and

white on this transaction. Sae just make me a minute, or



missive, in ony form ye like, and I'se write it fair ower, and

subscribe it before famous witnesses. Only, Elshie, I wad wuss



ye to pit naething in't that may be prejudicial to my salvation;

for I'll hae the minister to read it ower, and it wad only be



exposing yoursell to nae purpose. And now I'm ganging awa', for

ye'll be wearied o' my cracks, and I am wearied wi' cracking



without an answer--and I'se bring ye a bit o' bride's-cake ane o'

thae days, and maybe bring Grace to see you. Ye wad like to see



Grace, man, for as dour as ye are--Eh, Lord I I wish he may be

weel, that was a sair grane! or, maybe, he thought I was



speaking of heavenly grace, and no of Grace Armstrong. Poor man,

I am very doubtfu' o' his condition; but I am sure he is as kind



to me as if I were his son, and a queer-looking father I wad hae

had, if that had been e'en sae."



Hobbie now relieved his benefactor of his presence, and rode

blithely home to display his treasure, and consult upon the means



of repairing the damage which his fortune had sustained through

the aggression of the Red Reiver of Westburnflat.



CHAPTER XI.

Three ruffians seized me yester morn,



Alas! a maiden most forlorn;

They choked my cries with wicked might,



And bound me on a palfrey white:

As sure as Heaven shall pity me,



I cannot tell what men they be. CHRISTABELLE.

The course of our story must here revert a little, to detail the



circumstances which had placed Miss Vere in the unpleasant

situation from which she was unexpectedly, and indeed



unintentionally liberated, by the appearance of Earnscliff and

Elliot, with their friends and followers, before the Tower of



Westburnflat.

On the morning preceding the night in which Hobbie's house was



plundered and burnt, Miss Vere was requested by her father to

accompany him in a walk through a distant part of the romantic



grounds which lay round his castle of Ellieslaw. "To hear was to

obey," in the true style of Oriental despotism; but Isabella



trembled in silence while she followed her father through rough

paths, now winding by the side of the river, now ascending the



cliffs which serve for its banks. A single servant, selected

perhaps for his stupidity, was the only person who attended them.



From her father's silence, Isabella little doubted that he had

chosen this distant and sequestered scene to resume the argument



which they had so frequently maintained upon the subject of Sir

Frederick's addresses, and that he was meditating in what manner



he should most effectuallyimpress upon her the necessity of

receiving him as her suitor. But her fears seemed for some time



to be unfounded. The only sentences which her father from time

to time addressed to her, respected the beauties of the romantic



landscape through which they strolled, and which varied its

features at every step. To these observations, although they



seemed to come from a heart occupied by more gloomy as well as

more important cares, Isabella endeavoured to answer in a manner



as free and unconstrained as it was possible for her to assume,

amid the involuntary apprehensions which crowded upon her



imagination.

Sustaining with mutual difficulty a desultory conversation, they



at length gained the centre of a small wood, composed of large

oaks, intermingled with birches, mountain-ashes, hazel, holly,



and a variety of underwood. The boughs of the tall trees met

closely above, and the underwood filled up each interval between



their trunks below. The spot on which they stood was rather more

open; still, however, embowered under the natural arcade of tall






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