Capitolo 1
IL
DAYS OF BRUCE;
A History
FROM
SCOTTISH HISTORY.
FROM
YOU HONOR AGUILAR,
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. ME.
PREFACE.
As these pages have passed through the press mixed feelings of the pain,
and pleasure has operated my heart. Who will speak the regret that
her, to whom its composition was a job of love, you/he/she cannot participate in
the joy that would have caused his/her publication--who will say of
that anxious pleasure that I feel in to testify to the success of each and
all the efforts of his/her pen?
The days Of BRUCE have to be considered as an effort to put
in front of the reader an interesting account of one period of history, in
it a novel and one perhaps as delicious as you/he/she would be been able to be well
selected. In combination with the history of the brave distributor of Scotland,
you/he/she must be sees how an illustration of character female, and
descriptive of a lot that his/her Author has considered excellent in woman. In
the prepared Isabella and tall of Buchan the resignation of a heart is traced
hurt in his/her better affections, confiding mean still accumulated uneasiness.
In Isolate the unhappiness inflicted by itself of it you/he/she can also be seen of a
confident and same confident nature; while in Agnes the is delineated
submerging too much of a mind similar to sky in purity and the innocence
to fight with the austere and bitter pains with which it is his/her life
strewn.
As far the worths of this job can be perceived it doesn't become me to
judge; I only know and _feel_ that on me you/he/she has delegated the affectionate assignment
of book industry the writings of my lamented child--that I am carrying out
the desire of his/her life.
SARAH AGUILAR.
_May_, 1852.
THE DAYS OF BRUCE.
CHAPTER ME.
The month of March, raw and tempestuous as it is in England, perhaps
is held mild and beautiful as May from that accustomed to meet and
you face his/her fury in the oriental Highlands, neither the evening on that
our history starts bely its wild and capricious character.
The wind howled round the ancient Tower of Buchan, in alternate gusts of