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The face of the vision has been ever averted from me." "So be it then," said Lord Menteith, "and let it rest in the uncertainty in which your augury has placed it. I shall dine not the less merrily among plaids, and dirks, and kilts to-day." "It may be so," said Allan; "and, it may be, you do well to enjoy these moments, which to me are poisoned by auguries of future evil.
Here was a pole-axe, there a sword without a scabbard; here a gun without a lock, there a scythe set straight upon a pole; and some had only their dirks, and bludgeons or stakes pulled out of hedges.
A quizzical expression, faintly amused and manifestly interested, was upon Dr. Rowell's face. "What is the weapon, doctor?" he asked. "A stiletto." Arnold started. Dr. Rowell appeared confused. "I must confess," he said, "my ignorance of the differences among these penetrating weapons, whether dirks, daggers, stilettos, poniards, or bowie-knives."
The boy was sauntering idly along, counting aloud. The burgomaster's wife called to him, and asked why he was not at school and what he was doing there. "I'm counting," was the reply. "Now there are nine." "Nine?" "I've met nine dead bodies so far; the rector sent us home. Master Dirks is dead, and there were only thirteen of us to-day. There are some people bringing another one."
In this public whar we are gaun to, and whar it is like we may hae to stay a' night, men o' a' clans and kindred Hieland and Lawland tak up their quarters And whiles there are mair drawn dirks than open Bibles amang them, when the usquebaugh gets uppermost.
"You have deceived us, and we won't go a foot farther," and turning, the lads started to walk back along the road they had come. The Spaniard leapt from his donkey, and with angry gesticulation endeavored to arrest them. Finding that they heeded not his orders, he put his hand on his knife, but in a moment the boys' dirks flashed in the air. "Now, my lad," Hawtry said.
The shopkeeper entered the tienda, and presently reappeared with three or four dirks in red leather sheaths. Guest selected the heaviest, and tried its point on the table. "How much?" "Tres pesos." The young man threw him one of his gold pieces, and slipped the knife and its sheath in his boot.
"And troth," said Andrew, "I tauld them a' I ken'd; for dirks and pistols were what I could never refuse information to in a' my life." They talked in whispers among themselves, and at length collected their cattle together, and drove them close up to the entrance of the avenue, which might be half a mile distant from the house.
In another second they, too, were upon it swarming over it like rats, and digging and hacking at it with their dirks. And so they were still hacking at it although it had long since ceased to move, or to make any sound when Merode came up and called them to a halt. "Drag it inside; let Margot have a thrust at it it is her right.
Those who entered seemed to have returned from some excursion, of which they reported the success, and went without farther ceremony to the larder, where, cutting with their dirks their rations from the carcasses which were there suspended, they proceeded to broil and eat them at their own pleasure and leisure.
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