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Atholbane: A Romance of Kenmore Castle 作者:Sylvanus Cobb 出版社:WDS Publishing 出版日期:2013-07-06 語言:英文 |
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JUNE 20, A.D. 1098. Towards the close of the day a man stood upon the
shore of Loch Tay, one of the most beautiful and picturesque sheets of
water in Scotland, gazing at times over the towering summit of Ben
Lawers, where the clouds were rolling up in great black masses, and anon
upon a small boat that was struggling with the rising wind near the
middle of the lake. The man was young--not more than five-and-twenty--of
medium height, and finely proportioned; possessing a face of rare
beauty; a rich profusion of light brown curls escaping from beneath the
rim of his cap; while his eyes, though of the softest and warmest shade
of blue, betrayed a capacity of quick fire and earnest determination, as
well as of deep feeling and sympathetic emotion. He was dressed in the
ordinary garb of a gentleman of that period, though the short cloak of
fine black cloth, secured at the throat by a jewelled brooch, and the
blue velvet cap, with its white ostrich feather, were not exactly after
the pattern of those usually worn by the gentry of the Scottish court.
The pommel of the sword which hung at his side--a globe of burnished
steel surmounted by a cross of gold--and the peculiar fashion of the
spurs which graced the heels of his russet boots, told very plainly that
he had been admitted to the order of knighthood which William the
Conqueror had instituted in England, and which Malcolm Canmore had
received and introduced into Scotland. Close by his side, with the loose
rein drawn over his arm, stood a richly caparisoned Norman charger,
while at no great distance was a second horse, bearing a broad
pack-saddle, upon which was strapped a large leathern sack that
evidently contained the knight's luggage; and that our knight had
travelled a goodly distance on that day might be safely judged from the
dust upon his garments, and from the sweat that lay in white ridges and
flakes upon the sides and limbs of his beasts.
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