The Romancist and Novelist's Library (Volume 2); New Series (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VOLUME II.?CHAPTER I. ' Cluhs, hilln, and partisans ! strike, heat them down;? Down with the Capulets?down with the Montagues. Rehellious auh;ects, enemies to peace, Profanera of thia neighhour-gained stevl, ? Will ihi-y not heur? what ho, you men, you heaata, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage Wiili purple fountainp, iMuing from yuur veioa. On paw of torture, from those hloody hands, Throw your miitemper'd weapons to the ground." This tudden and unlocked for escape of Munro from a fate held so inevitahle as well hy himself us all around him, was not more a matter of satisfaction than surprise with that experienced personage. He did not deliherate long upon his release, however, hefore recovering his feet, and resuming his former helligerent attitude. The circumstance to which he owed the unlooked-for and most unwonted forhearance of his enemy was quickly revealed. Following the now common direction of all eyes, he discerned a hody of mounted and well-armed men, winding on their way in the direction of the encampment, in whose well-known uniform he recognised a detachment of the " Georgia Guard," a troop kept, as they all well knew, in the service of the state, for the purpose not merely of hreaking up the illegal and unadvised settlements of the squatters upon the frontiers upon lands now Known to he valuahle, hut also of repressing and punishing their now frequent outlawries. Such a course had hecome essential to the repose and protection of the more quiet and more honest adventurer, whose possessions they not only entered upon and despoiled, hut whose lives, in numerous instances, had heen made to pay the penalty of their enterprise. Such a force could alone meet the exigency, in a country where the sheriff dared not often show himself; and, thus accoutre...