[The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fair Maid of Perth CHAPTER XXIV 13/14
But, though he recovered in other particulars, he remembered but little of his trial and sentence.
Of his confession on the morning of his execution--he! he! he! (in his usual chuckling manner)--he remembered him not a word. Neither of leaving the prison, nor of his passage to the Greve, where he suffered, nor of the devout speeches with which he--he! he! he!--edified--he! he! he!--so many good Christians, nor of ascending the fatal tree, nor of taking the fatal leap, had my revenant the slightest recollection.' But here we reach the point where we must separate; for it were unfit, should we meet any of the watch, that we be found together, and it were also prudent that we enter the city by different gates.
My profession forms an excuse for my going and coming at all times.
Your valiant pagehood will make such explanation as may seem sufficing." "I shall make my will a sufficient excuse if I am interrogated," said the haughty young man.
"Yet I will avoid interruption, if possible.
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