Idalia

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Excerpt from Idalia: A RomanceIn the days of Chevy Chase and Flodden Field his race had been the proudest of the nobles on the Border-side their massive keep reared in face of the Cheviots, the lands their own, over miles of rock and gorse and forest, lords of all the Marches stretching to the sea. N ow all that be longed to him was that wild barren moorland, which gave nothing but the blackcock and the ptarmigan which bred in their wastes, and a hunting-lodge, half in ruins, to the westward, buried under hawthorn, birch, and ivy, a. Roost for owls and a paradise for painters, A splendid shot, Erceldoune: I congratulate you said a voice behind him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.