Capitolo 2
groaning and of fury, so it mixed with the depth heavy roll of the flogging,
whence, that was impossible to distinguish the roar of the element of the one
from the howl of the other. Anybody tree, hill, neither wood they intercepted the
strong wind that dresses again wicker, to change the dull monotony of his/her dark tone. The Ythan,
indeed it cast, from, inflated and turbid from continued storms, threatening
to flood the sterile plan sprinkled, but its voice was
indistinguishable among the moan of louder of wind and ocean. Pino-trees,
dark, worn-out, and shabby, and shed so widely separately that every one
monarch seemed of some thirty acrid, was the only traces of vegetation
for miles the circle. Neither it was the human residences more abundant; indeed, little
residences, safe those of so solid masonry as the Tower of Buchan,
you/he/she could hope to sustain scathless among the storms that in winter never
swept along the heath.
Any architectural beauty distinguished the residence of the Earls of
Buchan; none of that particular refined decoration to the Saxon one, neither of
the darkest still more imposing style introduced by the Norman one, and
known as the Gothic architecture.
A hunting-cottage, had originally been widened from continually
following gentlemen, without any respect or to symmetry or proportion,
elegance or convenience; and now, soon of year 1306, appeared
inside his/her external walls as a more heterogeneous mass of sick-shaped
turrets, short, offices, and galleries crowded together in it sick-ordered
confusion, introducing nevertheless to the distant sight a thick plaza
building, extraordinary only for a strength and the solidity able
withstanding to likewise the war of elements and man.
Without a whole dark wild region it seemed, but among existed indisputable
signals of the active life. The warlike inhabitants of the tower, nevertheless
few in number, was passing comparatively continually before and back in the
courts and galleries, or congregating in few knots, in anxious
opposite. Some detergent their armor or systematizing flags; others, young