Guy Mannering Volume I - Chapter XXII

In which our pedestrian, Brown, travels across the frosty Cumbrian heath with cheerful indifference to rank or equipage, engaging in lively discourse with local characters about the rustic scenes, hunting dogs, and familiar places of the borderlands. Amidst this rural companionship, news of an ancestral estate’s fate sparks melancholy reflections and whispered counsels of caution from the far-travelled Meg Merrilies.