The book Waverley Novels, volume 19 was written by author Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 Here you can read free online of Waverley Novels, volume 19 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Waverley Novels, volume 19 a good or bad book?
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Bethink, Sir Knight, that you stand on slippery ground and will act most wisely in reconciling yourself to be a prisoner in this place until the Abbot shall decide the matter. There are armed men enow to countervaU all your efforts at escape. Let patience and resignation, therefore, arm you to a necessary submission." So saying, he clapped his hands, and called aloud. Edward entered, accompanied by two young men who had already joined him, and were well armed. " Edward," said the Sub-Prior, "yo...u will supply the English knight here in this spence with suitable food and accommodation for the night, treating biTn with as much kindness as if nothing had happened between you. But you will place a suificient guard, and look carefully that he make not his escape. Should he attempt to break forth, resist him to 'the death; but in no other case harm a hair of his head, as you shall be answerable." Edward Glendinning replied, — "That I may obey your commands, reverend sir, I will not again offer myself to this person's presence ; for shame it were to me to break the peace of the Halidome, but not less shame to leave my brother's death unavenged." As he spoke, his lips grew livid, the blood forsook his cheek, and he was about to leave the apartment, Digitized by Google 156 WAVERLEY NOVELS when tlie Sub-Prior recalled liiin, and said in a solemn tone, — "Edward, I have known you from infancy — I have done what lay within my reach to be of use to you — I say nothing of what you owe to me as the repre- sentative of your spiritual Superior — I say nothing of the duty from the vassal to the Sub-Prior — ^But Father Eustace expects from the pupil whom he has nurtured — ^he expects from Edward Glendinning, that he will not, by any deed of sudden violence, however justified in his own mind by the provocation, break through the respect due to public justice, or that which he has an especial right to claim from him." " Fear nothing, my reverend father, for so in a hun- dred senses may I well term you," said the young man ; " fear not, I would say, that I will in any thing diminish the respect I owe to the venerable community by whom we have so long been protected, far less that I will do ought which can be personally less than respectful to you.
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