THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.
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CHAPTER III.
Here is a father now,
Will truck his daughter for a foreign venture,
Make her the stop-gap to some cankered feud,
Or fling her o'er, like Jonah, to the fishes,
To appease the sea at highest.
Anonymous.
The Lord Keeper opened his communication with an appearance of unconcern, marking, however, very carefully, the effect of his communication upon young Ravenswood.
"You are aware," he said, "my young friend, that suspicion is the natural vice of our unsettled times, and exposes the best and wisest of us to the imposition of artful rascals. If I had been disposed to listen to such the other day, or even if I had
