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The Surgeon's Daughter

Sir Walter Scott

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ther secured that hand also, which indeed was of itself far too little to serve the purpose of concealment, and showed her beautiful face, burning with blushes and covered with tears.

"You, Alcalde, and you, Surgeon," he said to Lawford and Gray, with a foreign action and accent, "this woman is my daughter, the same Zilia Moncada who is signal'd in that protocol. Make way, and let me carry her where her crimes may be atoned for."

"Are you that person's daughter?" said Lawford to the lady.

"She understands no English," said Gray; and addressing his patient in French, conjured her to let him know whether she was that man's daughter or not, assuring her of protection if the fact were otherwise. The answer was murmured faintly, but was too distinctly intelligible—"He was her father."

All farther title of interference seemed now ended. The messenger arrested his prisoner, and, with some delicacy, requi. . . Read More

Community Reviews

From the opening sequence, a horse ride home by the surgeon of the title, Scott takes us straight into his story which contains some Dickensian surprises and later on an exotic Empire location. Scott's childhood lameness might go some way to explaining the liberating horse riding sequences which in

This is another one of Sir Walter Scott's in-between books that I ended up liking quite a bit. (The Black Dwarf was another.) I'm not sure if he meant to write a novel or a short story, but he ended up with a novella of about 52,000 words, and it has flaws, IMO, but like Stitch, it's still good.

The

I couldn't wait to read the sequel. Although I actually DID have to wait to get it. Loved the story

Scott’s fiction has given me a great deal of pleasure over many years and this novella was the one remaining work that I had not read. So I now have a pleasing sense of completeness, and I certainly enjoyed it, but it isn’t really one of his best. All of Scott’s finest work is set in Scotland, and s

Originally the third story of the first book of the Chronicles of Canongate, The Surgeon's Daughter is often published as a stand alone book. I would say with good reason. The first two stories (The Highland Widow and The Two Drovers) were mediocre efforts by Scott, but the Surgeon's Daughter is one

The Surgeon's Daughter' is set in the 1770s. It tells
the story of Menie Gray, daughter of Dr Gideon Gray. Menie falls in love with Richard Middlemas, he was left by his mother and father in the village and brought up in the surgeon's household. However, Richard is a bad egg. His nurse fills his hea

The sad story of Minie, the daughter of Gideon Gray, a surgeon in the town of Fife. She is loved by both Richard, whose parents had left him with Gray when he was a baby , and Hartley, another pupil of Dr. Gray. The eventual travels to India, and the death of one of the principals at the hand (or, m