Show NIM 91 r CONDENSED SED CLASSICS ICS THE HEART R T 0 OF F midlothian MID LOTHIAN H IA N by SIR WILTER WALTER SCOTT Clid flon lip id T X hod ho d H dmd Un Heally 0 1 1 walter scott scot t was wan born in edinburgh on aug au 15 16 1771 wf III illier e r ill waa as a liwer lawyer the first 1 ot of the scott line pre 0 I 1 to lome leave the lite open country for the town for a man who wrote such a prodigious amount scott was surprisingly T late in getting started lie HP was 34 24 years ears old when his firbie original work appeared the lay of 0 the last minstrel str e L from that moment mo ment until his death on sept 21 1832 he was with the possible exception ot of byron the most pop popular 1 j lar writer in english WI ft li n t the h 0 public seemed to be tiring of 0 hl lili long romances in verse erse he turned to novel noel writing and in 1814 W hen he was 43 he came into his mryr of greatness with waverley Wai erlei I 1 for r I 1 IS 8 years cirs nov kocl e I 1 after novel fol foi onca in rapid islon stirring r romances of history or colorful tal talea of life they were all published until the financing disaster or of 1825 mule maile it seem wise to the ou thors name rully a doyen of the waverley NOMIS if not mor moie e might be included in ray any list of 10 0 noels is and many loani lovers of n sc scott att would even eien thyi thin think tint that one or two more might be tided added lie he was n is ill as steven n remil Iced the kinet of the ro romantics mantles Wave ricy evanhoe Ian hoe tile the heart ol of anil and Ne tillworth are aie ami neath 0 of scott at his best nut mit oil mortality quentin dur war ard the I 1 he n 11 guy mannoring mannering r hiie lie fortunes tunes n of f nigel f the he st zell well it rob roy RO and indred others hie live all ben bpi n ranked as ri favorites favori til rites teg among the innumerable admirers of the romances written by b the wizard of the north r henrt of hy by trl ann nany call ailed ed the finest of the waverley Wi erley novels was pub fished in 1818 it take its tiame from the Tol hooth or old city jall in Ft linburg pulled down dolvie in 1915 tit ohp stony bicart of which its sti clent front in the very middle or 0 thi th high street of the city on the afternoon of september 8 1736 3 butler assistant roaster master of the school lit at libberton and licensed incensed minister of the gospel found himself lit in unexpected trouble first arst of nil lie had bacomo beco nii entangled with the acrond of kund citizens of edinburg in the murin tiring lit fit the postponement or of tile the execution of cap maln john Por porteous leous of the city Gif giffard fird they were still in the heit beat of finger anger from the eventa of the preceding day when Porte porteous oui ind had ordered its his men nicci tr to fire find lind fired himself upon the HIP crowd some of whom were vere at to cut down don the body of scotch wilson wll on the smuggler reveral innocent citizens had been killed now that the chlof chief offender Tender ol seemed likely to escape there was no knowing what hit the lie mob might do the billit Il lIt skiing le would gladly lieve returned to Lili lerton then to his lip lie earned tint that efale the younger and ild more charming lster lister of his its sin part gennip deans dealt anns as imprisoned in the when lie lind li hi list bist seen effie more thrift a your before slie she ind had been n beautiful and blooming bloo girl the illy of saint leonards many sinn a traveler ilat her fathers cottage had stopped ills ahli hot on the pe eve of enter ln edill burg to gaze lit at tier lier w ns she be tripped by bv olm with her milk milic pall poised on her hega bearing herself so RO erect tind stepping so light find and free under her hei tu hurden aden that it dined seemed ei ned rather tin nn ortin orni ment than tin nn encumbrance now lie flip poor girl gill scarf scarce e eighteen year of nep lay lav in the charged with child tho fiets were hint flint orkin jor for a little in a shop in 9 the unhappy prisoner lind had disappeared fir the space of fl fir week find then ilailo her appearance lefore tier her sister slater tit ot saint leonards in n late that had rendered feanle only too certain of her misfortune but to nil questions slip and 1 nd ined imite n I 1 uie lie g r rne five until the officers of justice had collia to lier her difore di fore butler coull could sef see tier lier file Tol hooth ans ns closed aal an li eforo he could escape from the city a arod i of rioters compelled him to return wit walli it them to the ifill and administer tire the last rites to Port cou 1 whom they forth to death the leader of oe the mob a young ninn milli disguised in ili comans womans cothes a moment in the midst of tile the turn turm nil ain in tho the jill jall to bor beg effie clue to ec escape ape tor gods sake for your owl sake hake for ray my sake bake flee fie or take your 3 our etc was all that he had time to say s IT ithe the girl gaze gazed after him for a nio mo I 1 ment and then fa faintly littly muttering better tyne life since tint is tame she sunk slink her head upon hor land and aind remained feelingly gly ns is un conscious tons clous as a statue of the hp noise anil tumult which pissed passed around her in ili the on his way wi to sep beartle and b br bar r felther ot at saint ton lion butler encountered in tit lie kings park a young man of oc noail hearing ut strangely agitated who ft ho badt bade blin tell jennie denna deans that when the moon rises I 1 shall expect to meet tier her at nicol Mus chats cairn beneath saint anthonys anthonis chapel clin pel 11 after attempting in to induce jeanlo to exil explain hilli the message he returned to visit effle effie again in the tollbooth only to be compelled on his nr ar rival there to toll tell the whole hole ato story lest left lie he lie convicted of guilt in the porteous affair and then he wn ans a sent ent home bomi tinder hall not to leave libberton t W nor to communicate with ith any I 1 cembor ai member of nf the lie family of effle effie deans rut but it if his experiences were to him they were hy by n no menn means s so to the authorities by 1 piecing i or ng together its hla testimony with those of others they rightly determined that the stranger in the 1 kings ings park the be I 1 lender of the porteous mi mob ob birr and th the father of 14 effleda If fles child w were ere one and the slime person namely geordie no Rn bertson comrade of wilton wilson the smuggler tin and but lately escaped front from the very veri prison in which I mie imie denns deans was now confined accordingly tit ahny y planned to capture him that night at culm cairn but before they could reach that place nobert Boh ertson gon hall had time to beg jennie to save gave tier lier sister nt fit the trial by testifying that effle hit had disclosed to her tier her condition then I 1 lie I 1 e en escaped ped merely thill that slight falsehood would lieve removed tit the ease case of ENIC deans from under the letter of the cruel 0 scotch statute but Jef feanle fule steadfastly devoutly truthful was utterly unable to placate tite her cons conscience clence in bearing false witness nor rould could the disappointment of emr efflo herself whom she was tit nt last permit permitted teI to visit lilt in the strong trong room of the prison niter filter tier her resolution ne wanted that I 1 suld rind tie lie man worn sworn she still sald 1 I told him tint that I 1 dauhna swear acar to an untruth at the lie trial when jennie was brought in to testify erne effle in human weakness cried 0 jeanie jeanie anve e me I 1 rut but when hen the solemn oath tile the truth to tell find no truth to concord conceal vis as far its as she know knew or was aked rt kod was administered in the namo oc 0 1 nod iod and ns as the witness should anwer answer to god nt the lie great day of jud judgment 9 jeanie educated in deep reverence for the name of the delty deity was e elevated leviten above nil all considerations save those which the she could with a clear conscience call illin to witness and when b p n the advocate clime nt at length to the point of asking her what yoi your ir llster ilster said filled lier her when you I 1 inquired n qu ired jeanie could only answer nothing 1 when tho the sentence was pronounced by the ernes own cron eyes were the only dry ones in the court god forgive ye my lorda 11 she got said and dinna he angry wl me for bihin it we a need forgiveness the next morning found jennie deans traveling alone and afoot on the long road to london to see the queens face that gives grace tit and beg for her si sisters aters pardon her tar trin screen served nil all the purposes of n riding plyle nd of an na umbrella a small of linen as absolutely feces necessary ary she hall had a few gul guineas and a letter from reuben butler bittler to the duke or of argyle whoso grandfather grand hiither hall had been under tinder obligations of the deepest to the famous bible butler grandfather of the poor assistant n t schoolmaster aster now sick at libberton she passed luckily lucidly on the be whole through so weary nail dangerous A journey and at length throan through gh the intercession or oc the duke secured the purdon which she sought before she reached scotland again effle hit bad eloped with tier her lover who was in reality george staunton annton St son of fin an english nobleman the sisters who hall and last met when effle was sitting on the bench beach of the condemned did not meet inept again for many years though lady staunton Sl aunton wrote sometimes to jennie now mrs butler wife of mr butler pastor ol 01 of finally liy by clin cliance fice sir 0 learned that meg Murdocks nn who ho had attended tended nt effle effie in her illness hall h il not murdered the child ng as they hit nl ways Aup supposed posed lip ili traced the hov boy to lo n certain troop of of walh block donald was the chief in ili nn nil affray with black donalds men sir george Itle orge was shot by ri a young oung lail ad called the whistler who proved to 1 ho L tit tin lost still son tit alip ind disappeared find and to america americ a lady staunton overcome hv by tit flip tri tragedy gedy after vain to ti drown her prier in society to a convent in france although slip lie tool ton no an vows ws slip she roin alnA birre until her death put but tier her 11 influence at court accomplished much for the children of her sister vlis lived happily on in the good pir par nh ish with which the bounty of the lie mike of argyle had provided dod tier her lius hus ji lintl the apart of midlothian Mid lothian Is notable lor having rather fewer import 1111 t characters it a smaller sin aller variety of 1 and it 1 dents tin and le loss q dese description riplon of sev n v than magi of nt scotts novel nos ori one if f th the most vellma kahle scenes in fill all flo fiction Is tle the hoeting of f the hr two tn sisters in prison dundur the e ees y of lite lie jaller jailer the inter of caroline is also most no noteworthy e tario is 19 much humor tit nt I 1 alie ic ear expense olle of lie flip wing of hie flip pr falth in tn in this also fir the strange character of if mudge madge daughter of th thy crone cone meg Murd into hev her Is 14 put tile I 1 lip famous song proud 1 in tile the wood 1 Co copyright 1919 by the pot post publishing co ithe boston past |