... state of unrest and chronic warfare, between theinhabitants of both sides of the border, was full of adventures as stirring and romantic as that in which thehero of the story took part. Both ... to the broad lands of the Percys. She married the son of the Duke of Brabant, the condition of her marriage being that he should either take the arms of the Percys, instead of hisown; or continue ... If he is a fellow of parts and discretion, I doubt notthat we can make him useful. You say he knows every inch of our side of the border, and something of theScottish side of it, his mother's...