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'Presbyterian! answered Gilfillan contemptuously; 'a wretched Erastian, or rather an obscure Prelatist, a favourer of the black indulgence, ane of thae dumb dogs that canna bark; they tell ower a clash o' terror and a clatter o' comfort in their sermons, without ony sense, or savour, or life. Ye've been fed in siccan a fauld, belike? 'No; I am of the Church of England, said Waverley.
It is the object of this history to do justice to all men; I must therefore record, in justice to the drummer, that he protested he could beat any known march or point of war known in the British army, and had accordingly commenced with 'Dumbarton's Drums, when he was silenced by Gifted Gilfillan, the commander of the party, who refused to permit his followers to move to this profane, and even, as he said, persecutive tune, and commanded the drummer to beat the 119th Psalm.
But the expulsion of the military from Tully-Veolan had given alarm, and while he was lying in wait for Gilfillan, a strong party, such as Donald did not care to face, was sent to drive back the insurgents in their turn, to encamp there, and to protect the country.
His voice was the sweetest, the most winning and penetrating of any I ever heard; nothing like it have I listened to since. 'That music in our hearts we bore Long after it was heard no more." Mr. George Gilfillan speaks of "the solemnity of his manner, and the earnest thought pervading his discourse."
Gilfillan then considered the lawfulness of a private man's standing forth as the avenger of public oppression, and as he was labouring with great earnestness the cause of Mas James Mitchell, who fired at the Archbishop of Saint Andrews some years before the prelate's assassination on Magus Muir, an incident occurred which interrupted his harangue.
Of course, I am terribly unstrung and unhappy over poor little Rosabel, but I am not afraid of HIM. He will not come here. Tell me again just what he is accused of doing." The car had drawn up under the porte-cochere. Webster repeated the story he had had from Gilfillan. She sat perfectly still during the lengthy recital. "And to think " she began, but checked the words in time.
He had recognised her at first sight as the old woman who had nursed him during his sickness after his delivery from Gifted Gilfillan.
'Yea, was the concise reply of the Cameronian leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from the very PENETRALIA of his person. 'But your escort, Mr. Gilfillan, is not so strong as I expected, said Major Melville, 'Some of the people, replied Gilfillan, 'hungered and were athirst by the way, and tarried until their poor souls were refreshed with the word.
What a time is this for study, for contemplation, for enjoyment! The poet Gilfillan, in describing a lovely night at sea, says, with true poetic warmth and energy, "Night closed around the ship; no sound Save of the splashing sea Was heard.
I compared this snap-shot with the photograph I have with me. Shave off that dinky little moustache and I'll bet a hundred to one you'll have Ritchie's mug all right. Hustle back there, Gilfillan, you and Simons. He'll be turning up at the house unless he's got wind of us. Don't let him see you. You stay here with me, Constable.
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