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'Could na say just preceesely; Sunday seldom cam aboon the pass of Bally-Brough.
The door opened. It was but Cathleen, with her lady's excuse, and wishes for Captain Waverley's health and happiness. It was noon when the two friends stood at the top of the pass of Bally-Brough. 'I must go no farther, said Fergus Mac-Ivor, who during the journey had in vain endeavoured to raise his friend's spirits.
'Could na say just preceesely Sunday seldom cam aboon the pass of Bally-Brough.
'I'se warrant he would go to his cousin's at Rannoch. 'Well, but if they followed him to Rannoch? 'That, quoth Evan, 'is beyond all belief; and, indeed, to tell you the truth, there durst not a Lowlander in all Scotland follow the fray a gun-shot beyond Bally-Brough, unless he had the help of the Sidier Dhu. 'Whom do you call so?
It cost that body five hundred merks ere he got to the south of Bally-Brough. And ance Donald played a pretty sport. So there was old to do about ransoming the bridegroom; for Donald would not lower a farthing of a thousand punds' The devil! 'Punds Scottish, ya shall understand.
'Oich, answered Evan,'they were all trudging before your lad and Allan Kennedy before the sun blinked ower Ben Lawers this morning; and they'll be in the pass of Bally-Brough by this time, in their way back to the parks of Tully-Veolan, all but two, that were unhappily slaughtered before I got last night to Uaimh an Ri.
'Oich, answered Evan,'they were all trudging before your lad and Allan Kennedy before the sun blinked ower Ben Lawers this morning; and they'll be in the pass of Bally-Brough by this time, in their way back to the parks of Tully-Veolan, all but two, that were unhappily slaughtered before I got last night to Uaimh an Ri.
'I'se warrant he would go to his cousin's at Rannoch. 'Well, but if they followed him to Rannoch? 'That, quoth Evan, 'is beyond all belief; and, indeed, to tell you the truth, there durst not a Lowlander in all Scotland follow the fray a gun-shot beyond Bally-Brough, unless he had the help of the SIDIER DHU. 'Whom do you call so?
The door opened. It was but Cathleen, with her lady's excuse, and wishes for Captain Waverley's health and happiness. It was noon when the two friends stood at the top of the pass of Bally-Brough. 'I must go no farther, said Fergus Mac-Ivor, who during the journey had in vain endeavoured to raise his friend's spirits.
On the right hand, the mountain rose above the path with almost equal inaccessibility; but the hill on the opposite side displayed a shroud of copsewood, with which some pines were intermingled. 'This, said Evan, 'is the pass of Bally-Brough, which was kept in former times by ten of the clan Donnochie against a hundred of the Low Country carles.
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