Lord Byron's Novel
The Evening Land
Chapter One
In which a Man is baited by a
Bear, and of the precedents of this
Observe -- but no! No one may observe, save the unfeeling Moon, who sails without progress through the clouds -- a young Lord, who on the ramparts of his half-ruined habitation keeps a late watch. Wrapt in a Scotch mantle little different from that worn in all times by his ancestors -- and not on the Scotch side alone -- he has a light sword buckled on, a curved and
bejewelled one not of this northern land's manufacture. He has two
pocket pistols as well, made by Mantons -- for this is a year in the
present century, tho' what the youth may see in the moon's light is
much as it has been for these past seven or eight. There is the old
battlement that faces to the North, whereon he stands, ... read full excerpt from Lord Byron's Novel ebook
