Chapter 18
NARRATIVE OF DARSIE LATIMER, CONTINUED 'The House of Redgauntlet,' said the young lady, 'has for centuries been supposed to lie under a doom, which has rendered vain their courage, their talents, their ambition, and their wisdom. Often making a figure in history, they have been ever in the situation of men striving against both wind and tide, who distinguish themselves by their desperate exertions of strength, and their persevering endurance of toil, but without being able to advance themselves upon their course by either vigour or resolution. They pretend to trace this fatality to a legendary history, which I may tell you at a less busy moment.' Darsie intimated that he had already heard the tragic story of Sir Alberick Redgauntlet. 'I need only say, then,' proceeded Lilias, 'that our
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