Rob Roy (Unabridged). Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Rob Roy
(Unabridged)
Historical Novel
Published by
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4224-5
Table of Contents
For why? Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them; the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.
Rob Roy’s Grave — Wordsworth
Volume One
Chapter First
How have I sinn’d, that this affliction
Should light so heavy on me? I have no more sons,
And this no more mine own.— My grand curse
Hang o’er his head that thus transformed thee!—
Travel? I’ll send my horse to travel next.
Monsieur Thomas.
You have requested me, my dear friend, to bestow some of that leisure, with which Providence has blessed the decline of my life, in registering the hazards and difficulties which attended its commencement. The recollection of those adventures, as you are pleased to term them, has indeed left upon my mind a chequered and varied feeling