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. 1844 Excerpt: ...greatest wonderment, the mother returned in some degree to her senses. She breathed freer, she ceased her sorrowings, and she assuaged her tears. " Since nothing is missing as we can see," said she to her servant maid, " since the churn in the dairy is safe, and the milk untouched, go now and awaken my daughter, and ...
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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. 1844 Excerpt: ...greatest wonderment, the mother returned in some degree to her senses. She breathed freer, she ceased her sorrowings, and she assuaged her tears. " Since nothing is missing as we can see," said she to her servant maid, " since the churn in the dairy is safe, and the milk untouched, go now and awaken my daughter, and bid her come hither." Alack then, if it must be so; now the real amount of her affliction must be revealed. The servant went to the maiden's room, but had not one half crossed the floor, ere she was stricken with as much amazement as ever had troubled the whole household just before. " The sheets were cold and she was away, ' says the ancient and royal historiographer: and the servant came screaming back to her mistress, declaring that, forsooth, she was off with the Gaberlunzie man! Now then did a thousand distracting passions cruelly torture every dweller in that habitation. The old Woman well nigh went out of her wits; she hastily resolved on divers plans for pursuing the fugitives, sometimes this way, sometimes the other, in any or every likely direction in which they may have fled; but so sorely racked was she with fears and vexations, that although she formed these plans of pursuit, and although she desired eagerly to undertake them herself, still, as she could not guess as to which way they might have gone, and as she wished every known road explored, and as she could not take every one of them her single self, she became at last so confused, so anxious, and so bewildered, that she could do nothing at all in the matter. She hurried some on horseback to ride the country over, and some she despatched to run off through by-roads and crooked paths, to look, to search, to bunt, to inquire. She never thought of despatchi...
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