ISBN: 9781153683159

Excerpt: ... he was in the act of rising. The blow was mortal. It is needless to add, that the pursuit was checked, and Baliol escaped. ''Redgauntlet, ferocious as he is describ… More...

Excerpt: ... he was in the act of rising. The blow was mortal. It is needless to add, that the pursuit was checked, and Baliol escaped. ''Redgauntlet, ferocious as he is described, was yet overwhelmed with the thoughts of the crime he had committed. When he returned to his castle, it was to encounter new domestic sorrows. His wife had been prematurely seized with the pangs of labour upon hearing the dreadful catastrophe which had taken place. The birth of an infant boy cost her her life. Redgauntlet sat by her corpse for more than twenty-four hours without changing either feature or posture, so far as his terrified domestics could observe. The Abbot of Dundrennan preached consolation to him in vain. Douglas, who came to visit in his affliction a patriot of such distinguished zeal, was more successful in rousing his attention. He caused the trumpets to sound an English point of war in the courtyard, and Redgauntlet at once sprang to his arms, and seemed restored to the recollection which had been lost in the extent of his misery. ''From that moment, whatever he might feel inwardly, he gave way to no outward emotion. Douglas caused his infant to be brought; but even the iron-hearted soldiers were struck with horror to observe that, by the mysterious law of nature, the cause of his mother''s death, and the evidence of his father''s guilt, was stamped on the innocent face of the babe, whose brow was distinctly marked by the miniature resemblance of a horseshoe. Redgauntlet himself pointed it out to Douglas, saying, with a ghastly smile, It should have been bloody. ''Moved, as he was, to compassion for his brother-in-arms, and steeled against all softer feelings by the habits of civil war, Douglas shuddered at this sight, and displayed a desire to leave the house which was doomed to be the scene of such horrors. As his parting advice, he exhorted Alberick Redgauntlet to make a pilgrimage to Saint Ninian''s of Whiteherne, then esteemed a shrine of great sanctity; and... Walter Scott, Books, History, Redgauntlet Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153683159

Excerpt: ... he was in the act of rising. The blow was mortal. It is needless to add, that the pursuit was checked, and Baliol escaped. ''Redgauntlet, ferocious as he is describ… More...

Excerpt: ... he was in the act of rising. The blow was mortal. It is needless to add, that the pursuit was checked, and Baliol escaped. ''Redgauntlet, ferocious as he is described, was yet overwhelmed with the thoughts of the crime he had committed. When he returned to his castle, it was to encounter new domestic sorrows. His wife had been prematurely seized with the pangs of labour upon hearing the dreadful catastrophe which had taken place. The birth of an infant boy cost her her life. Redgauntlet sat by her corpse for more than twenty-four hours without changing either feature or posture, so far as his terrified domestics could observe. The Abbot of Dundrennan preached consolation to him in vain. Douglas, who came to visit in his affliction a patriot of such distinguished zeal, was more successful in rousing his attention. He caused the trumpets to sound an English point of war in the courtyard, and Redgauntlet at once sprang to his arms, and seemed restored to the recollection which had been lost in the extent of his misery. ''From that moment, whatever he might feel inwardly, he gave way to no outward emotion. Douglas caused his infant to be brought; but even the iron-hearted soldiers were struck with horror to observe that, by the mysterious law of nature, the cause of his mother''s death, and the evidence of his father''s guilt, was stamped on the innocent face of the babe, whose brow was distinctly marked by the miniature resemblance of a horseshoe. Redgauntlet himself pointed it out to Douglas, saying, with a ghastly smile, It should have been bloody. ''Moved, as he was, to compassion for his brother-in-arms, and steeled against all softer feelings by the habits of civil war, Douglas shuddered at this sight, and displayed a desire to leave the house which was doomed to be the scene of such horrors. As his parting advice, he exhorted Alberick Redgauntlet to make a pilgrimage to Saint Ninian''s of Whiteherne, then esteemed a shrine of great sanctity; and... Walter Scott, Books, History, Redgauntlet Books>History <

ISBN: 9781153683159

Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centers around a fictitious Jacobite rebellion. Books Biography & Autobiography~~General Redgauntlet~~Walter-Scott-Sir General Books LLC