Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1823. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... " So there are, David. I know there are many dead corpses there. You are ill, David--you are ill--sit down, I say, and compose yourself. And, regard me, if I hear your noise to-night again, either alarming my maid, or disturbing my own meditations, I'll turn you out of doors, David. That I will, be assured." This was a hard alternative ; so, without being able to explain himself farther, David sat down on the sod seat, and the parson returned to his parlour, in the farther end of the house, desiring Sally to bring some coals to the fire. Sally obeyed; and when David was left alone in the kitchen, he betook him again to his old stand beyond the fire, and to the old up-and-down motion with his feet; but not daring for his life to call out, he remained gasping for breath. Sally was in no hurry to return, for she and her reverend master had been talking a little about David's frenzy, and laughing at it; for David, honest man ! was accounted hardly like other folks. While Sally was in the parlour, or on her return from it, I am not certain which, a loud heavy knock came to the front door; it was exactly such a knock as a man would give with the head of a spade, or any heavy mattock. It sounded to David like the death-bell to his own funeral; his frame grew rigid ; and he gaped so wide, that he appeared as if about to swallow himself. Sally went straight to the door, without consulting David's feelings on the subject, or so much as witnessing his deplorable condition at the moment. She opened it, and was accosted in the Lowland tongue, by a man, who asked, in a hollow-sounding voice, " If daft Davie Duff was in the house ?" David heard the ominous question distinctly where he stood, and suppressed his panting entirely, in order to hear Sally's answer; for, till that was g...
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