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REDGAUNTLET by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
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CONTENTS.
Introduction Text Letters I - XIII
Chapters
I - XXIII Conclusion Notes Glossary
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INTRODUCTION
The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during
the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be
selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable
incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by
the existing generation without any degree of the bitterness of spirit
which seldom fails to attend internal dissension. The Highlanders, who
formed the principal strength of Charles Edward's army, were an
ancient and high-spirited race, peculiar in their habits of war and of
peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points
more adapted to poetry than to the prose of real life. Their prince,
young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising danger, heading his
army on foot in the most toilsome marches, and defeating a regular
force in three battles--all these were circumstances fascinating to the

imagination, and might well be supposed to seduce young and
enthusiastic minds to the cause in which they were found united,
although wisdom and reason frowned upon the enterprise.
The adventurous prince, as is well known, proved to be one of those
personages who distinguish themselves during some single and
extraordinarily brilliant period of their lives, like the course of a
shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness,
as the brilliancy of its splendour. A long tract of darkness
overshadowed the subsequent life of a man who, in his youth, showed
himself so capable of great undertakings; and, without the painful task
of tracing his course farther, we may say the latter pursuits and habits
of this unhappy prince are those painfully evincing a broken heart,
which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments.
Still, however, it was long ere Charles Edward appeared to be, perhaps
it was long ere he altogether became, so much degraded from his
original self; as he enjoyed for a time the lustre attending the progress
and termination of his enterprise. Those who thought they discerned in
his subsequent conduct an insensibility to the distresses of his followers,
coupled with that egotistical attention to his own interests which has
been often attributed to the Stuart family, and which is the natural
effect of the principles of divine right in which they were brought up,
were now generally considered as dissatisfied and splenetic persons,
who, displeased with the issue of their adventure and finding
themselves