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GUY MANNERING.
CHAPTER VII.
I renounce your defiance; if you parley so roughly I'll barricado my gates against you—Do you see yon bay window?
Storm,—I care not, serving the good Duke of Norfolk.
Merry Devil of Edmonton.
Julia Mannering to Matilda Marchmont.
"I rise from a sick-bed, my dearest Matilda, to communicate the strange and frightful scenes which have just passed. Alas! how little we ought to jest with futurity! I closed my letter to you in high spirits, with some flippant remarks on your taste for the romantic and the extraordinary in fictitious narrative. How little I expected to have had such events to record in the course of a few days! And to witness scenes of terror, or to contem-
