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The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
A Highland Story
by
Ann Radcliffe
Ñ For justice bares the arm of God,
And the grasp'd vengeance only waits his nod.
CAWTHORN
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2004
First published, London: Thomas Hookham, 1789
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CHAPTER I
ON the north-east coast of Scotland, in the most romantic part of the Highlands, stood the Castle of Athlin; an edifice built on the summit of a rock whose base was in the sea. This pile was venerable from its antiquity, and from its Gothic structure; but more venerable from the virtues which it enclosed. It was the residence of the still beautiful widow, and the children of the noble Earl of Athlin, who was slain by the hand of Malcolm, a neighbouring chief, proud, oppressive, revengeful; and still residing in all the pomp of feudal greatness, within a few miles of the castle of Athlin. Encroachment on the domain of Athlin, was the occasion of the animosity which subsisted between the chiefs. Frequent broils had happened between their clans, in which that of A