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...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... also found shelter in the church, perished by the same conflagration. One man, named David Murray, escaped by the humanity of one of the Drummonds, w... ...ll of the drum had made him cock his bonnet an inch higher, and follow its music for 17 Sir Walter Scott nearly forty years. To his recollection, thi... ...es as firmly as in holy writ. He is particularly delighted by her skill in music, which is so ex- quisite, that she far exceeds the best performers in... ... another Chief, starting up, “saving the representative of the Lord of the Isles, entitled by birth and hereditary descent to lead forth the array of ... ...f Vich Alister More desires to be held repre- sentative of the Lord of the Isles, let him first show his blood is redder than mine.” “That is soon tri...