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Chapter XXVIII The March
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It is not our purpose to intrude1 upon the province of history. We shall therefore only remind our readers that about the beginning of November the Young Chevalier, at the head of about six thousand men at the utmost, resolved to peril2 his cause on an attempt to penetrate3 into the centre of England, although aware of the mighty4 preparations which were made for his reception. They set forward on this crusade in weather which would have rendered any other troops incapable5 of marching, but which in reality gave these active mountaineers advantages over a less hardy6 enemy. In defiance7 of a superior army lying upon the Borders, under Field-Marshal Wade8, they besieged9 and took Carlisle, and soon afterwards prosecuted10 their daring march to the southward.
As Colonel Mac-Ivor’s regiment11 marched in the van of the clans12, he and Waverley, who now equalled any Highlander14 in the endurance of fatigue15, and was become somewhat acquainted with their language, were perpetually at its head. They marked the progress of the army, however, with very different eyes. Fergus, all air and fire, and confident against the world in arms, measured nothing but that every step was a yard nearer London. He neither asked, expected, nor desired any aid except that of the clans to place the Stuarts once more on the throne; and when by chance a few
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intrude
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v.透(渗)入;刺入,刺穿;洞察,了解 | |
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包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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bounty
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reluctance
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haughtily
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affront
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