Granby (Volume 2); A Novel

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1826 Excerpt: ... God bless you, Sir, don't talk of that. I will not hurt ydu by dwelling on the worst. Call me to-morrow at five, and say not a word to any of the household. I thank you for this proof of your regard; but let us try to make the best of what must happen. I am unfit to talk upon this subject longer, and you are affected by it. Perhaps you had better leave me. The poor man, who stood during these words, covering his face with his hands, walked slowly and silently out of the. room, and Granby was again left to his own solemn meditations. CHAPTER XIII. So stands the Thracian herdsman with his speur Full in the gap, and hopes the hunted bear; And hears him snorting in the wood, and sees His course at distance by the bending trees; And thinks, here comes my mortal enemy, And either he most fall in fight or I. Drtden. Granby rose early the next morning and attended by his servant, walked to the appointed place of meeting. It was a deep romantic glen, which after winding gracefully for a short distance, was abruptly terminated by a held semicircular front of naked lime stone. It had been originally a quarry, but had been long disused; and though the valley was executed by art, no one who now looked at those fine broken slopes, so thickly clothed with thorn and hftzel, could trace the operations of the spade; nor viewing the beetling crags, now richly tinged with moss and lichen, could suppose that those picturesque masses had ever been submitted to the disiiguring action of the workman's tool. A narrow path, almost closed with luxuriant underwood, conducted up the valley, which widened gradually as you approached the extremity. There beneath the curving ledge of rock, was a smooth level plot of the finest turf, which was skirted, on the side opposite to the crag, ...