Rob Roy — Volume 02

by Walter Scott

Category: Fiction

Status: Available

Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg

About This Book

"Rob Roy — Volume 02" by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in 1817. This second volume continues Frank Osbaldistone's perilous journey into the Scottish Highlands, where family betrayal and political turmoil collide. Pursuing his treacherous cousin Rashleigh, who has stolen vital documents threatening his father's business, Frank encounters the legendary outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Against the backdrop of the 1715 Jacobite Rising, romance, ambushes, and bloodshed unfold amid the wild landscapes of Loch Lomond, leading toward a dramatic reckoning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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ROB ROY

By Sir Walter Scott

VOLUME TWO

CHAPTER FIRST

And hurry, hurry, off they rode, As fast as fast might be; Hurra, hurra, the dead can ride, Dost fear to ride with me? Burger.

There is one advantage in an accumulation of evils, differing in cause and character, that the distraction which they afford by their contradictory operation prevents the patient from being overwhelmed under either. I was deeply grieved at my separation from Miss Vernon, yet not so much so as I should have been, had not my father's apprehended distresses forced themselves on my attention; and I was distressed by the news of Mr. Tresh

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