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Best leave it between the book and the hearer." My friend thought the old woman had got some scandal about Fergus son of Roy and Maive in her head.
Fergus, too, the youngest of all the sons, and of an individual, rather peculiar nature, was growing up in straight grooves of his own; but Wilfred, who from delicate health, had been the most at home, had never seemed to open to his father.
And now I am here, netted and in the toils, at the disposal of a suspicious, stern, and cold-hearted man, perhaps to be turned over to the solitude of a dungeon or the infamy of a public execution. O, Fergus! how true has your prophecy proved; and how speedy, how very speedy, has been its accomplishment!
'And now, said Fergus, 'while we are upon the subject of clanship what think you now of the prediction of the Bodach Glas? Then, before Edward could answer, 'I saw him again last night he stood in the slip of moonshine, which fell from that high and narrow window towards my bed. Why should I fear him, I thought to-morrow, long ere this time, I shall be as immaterial as he. "False Spirit!"
I say it, even I, Fergus, son of the Red Rossa, Champion of the North. Let the man who will gainsay me show himself now in Emain Macha. Let him bring round the buckle of his belt."
At the conclusion of his stay Fergus appointed two of the retainers to accompany Archie south, and to give assurance to the various wild people through whom he might pass, that Archie's mission was a friendly one to Ireland, and that he was an honoured friend and guest of the chief of Killeen. On his arrival in Mayo Archie found matters more favourable to his mission.
About noon, after a journey which the nature of the conveyance, the pain of his bruises, and the roughness of the way rendered inexpressibly painful, Waverley was hospitably received into the house of a gentleman related to Fergus, who had prepared for him every accommodation which the simple habits of living then universal in the Highlands put in his power.
He says that he and Harry can put up all the three boys between them, and that they will be very useful in the Christmas festivities of Coalham. 'It is very kind of him, said Gillian in a depressed tone. 'Fergus will be very happy. 'I only hope he will not be bent on finding a coal mine in the garden when he comes back, said Aunt Jane, smiling; 'but it is rather dreary for you, my dear.
It was different with Fergus. There had been offences certainly; Aunt Jane had routed him out of preparing his lessons in Mrs. Mount's room, where he diversified them with teaching the Sofy to beg, and inventing new modes of tying down jam pots.
In following this course of conduct, Fergus had a further object than merely being the great man of his neighbourhood, and ruling despotically over a small clan.
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