Bride of Lammermoor Chapter III

In which the astute and cautious Lord Keeper contemplates the uprising at the funeral of the late Lord Ravenswood, resolving to wield his legal power against young Edgar Ravenswood with measured severity while pondering the weight of ancestral legacy. Meanwhile, the gentle and compliant Lucy Ashton, whose tender spirit contrasts with her family’s ambition, draws her father into a visit to Old Alice, a blind but perceptive servant of the former lord whose tales stir the remembrance of bygone days.