Lord of the Isles

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Excerpt from Scott's Lord of the Isles: With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary One Sunday, says Mr. Hutton, about two years before his call to the bar, Scott offered his umbrella to a young lady of much beauty who was coming out of the Grey friars' Church during a shower. The umbrella was graciously accepted, the result being a passionate but unsuccessful attachment, the memory of which seems to have affected Scott deeply for many years. The lady having married another (afterwards, as Sir W. Forbes, a true friend to Scott), the disappointed suitor, as so often happens, in all haste, within a few months, gave his hand, if not his heart, to the first who took his pass ing fancy. Mademoiselle Charpentier, or Miss Carpenter, daughter of a French refugee, seems to have been 'a lively beauty, probably of no great depth of character.' The result of the marriage - of this mating of a bird of paradise with an eagle - is said to have been 'happy on the whole'; but his wife was evidently not the source of much inspiration or comfort to Scott in his literary work and his financial anxieties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.