...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — "O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring the brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened...

...with nothing but broad-wheeled waggons; in the woods and fields, but plough-boys—soil-harrowing, not soul-harrowing companionship for a hero. Meanwhile,...that " grief and danger were wringing his brow," in the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a ministering angel, who had often smoothed it...

...poplar leaves when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pam and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...promptitude which you did, and which had quite as much to do with saving my life as yo\H CHAPTER XII. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." — SCOTT. THE rumours respecting...

...leaves when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — "Oh, worhan! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By ihe light quivering aspen made. When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering...

...Waterloo the battle was yet raging with as much fury as ever. CHAPTER XIII. THE SISTER OF CHARITY. " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...fortune to chance upon so much as a gypsy's camp, to sup with some 'kerchiefed beauty of raven-hair and walnutjuice complexion, on broiled hedgehog, under...that " grief and danger were wringing his brow," in the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a ministering angel, who had often smoothed it...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! " O, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...he was able to walk stoutly enough, was accomplished speedily and without accident. CHAPTER XIII. O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...