Guy Mannering Volume II - Chapter XI

In which a wounded gentleman, forced to conceal his true rank and identity, seeks refuge along the rugged coasts and engages with a smuggler’s family to send secret messages to a lady of his acquaintance, whilst enduring the slow and unreliable post of the day. He arrives at a wild Scottish bay beneath the ancient towers of his forebears, overwhelmed by his misfortunes yet stirred by the haunting landscape of his ancestral home.