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The Betrothed

The Betrothed

The Betrothed is an 1825 novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is the first of two Tales of the Crusaders, the second being The Talisman.


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“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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“Too much rest is rust.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The The Betrothed (1825), Volume I, Chapter XIII http://books.google.com/books?id=3w8OAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Too+much+rest+is+rust%22&pg=PA226#v=onepage

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