Guy Mannering.

GUY MIANNERING. 169
CHAPTER XIII.
They told me, by the sentence of the law,
They had commission to seize all thy fortune.Here stood a ruffian with a horrid face,
Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate,
Tumbled into a heap for public sale;There was another, making villanous jests,
At thy uncdoing; he had ta'en possession
Of all thy ancient most domestic ornaments.
OTWAY.
EARLY next morning, Mlannering mounted his horse,
and accompanied by his servant, took the road to Ellangowan. He had no need to inquire the way. A sale
in the country is a place of public resort and amusement,
and people of various descriptions streamed to it from all
quarters.
After a pleasant ride of about an hour, the old towers
of the ruin presented themselves in the landscape. The
thoughts, with what different feelings he had lost sight of
them so many years before, thronged upon the mind of
the traveller. The landscape was the same; but how
changed the feelings, hopes, and views, of the spectator!
Then, life and love were new, and all the prospect was
gilded by their rays. And now, disappointed in affection,
sated with fame, and what the world calls success, his
mind goaded by bitter and repentant recollection, his best
hope was to find a retirement in which he might nurse
the melancholy that was to accompany him to his grave.