Even with what liberty I have, I have the opportunity to see a myriad roofs, and I dare to say, thirty leagues of sea and land.

All this hostile! Under all these roofs my enemies dwell; wherever I see the smoke of a house rising, I must tell myself that some one sits before the chimney and reads with joy of our reverses.

Pardon me, dear friends, I know that you must do the same, and I do not grudge at it! With you, it is all different.
Show me your house then, were it only the chimney, or, if that be not visible, the quarter of the town in which it lies! So, when I look all about me, I shall be able to say: "_There is one house in which I am not quite unkindly thought of_."' Flora stood a moment.
'It is a pretty thought,' said she, 'and, as far as regards Ronald and myself, a true one.

Come, I believe I can show you the very smoke out of our chimney.' So saying, she carried me round the battlements towards the opposite or southern side of the fortress, and indeed to a bastion almost immediately overlooking the place of our projected flight.

Thence we had a view of some foreshortened suburbs at our feet, and beyond of a green, open, and irregular country rising towards the Pentland Hills.