[The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fair Maid of Perth CHAPTER XVII 9/24
How knew you your man? the night, I am told, is dark." "By sight and sound, garb, gait, and whistle." "Enough, vanish! and, Eviot, let him have gold and wine to his brutish contentment.
Vanish! and go thou with him." "And whose death is achieved ?" said the Prince, released from the feelings of disgust and horror under which he suffered while the assassin was in presence.
"I trust this is but a jest! Else must I call it a rash and savage deed.
Who has had the hard lot to be butchered by that bloody and brutal slave ?" "One little better than himself," said the patient, "a wretched artisan, to whom, however, fate gave the power of reducing Ramorny to a mutilated cripple--a curse go with his base spirit! His miserable life is but to my revenge what a drop of water would be to a furnace.
I must speak briefly, for my ideas again wander: it is only the necessity of the moment which keeps them together; as a thong combines a handful of arrows.
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