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"Are you sure this bad hour, Edie, is so very near? come, I know, it will." "It's e'en as I tell you, leddy. But dinna be cast down there's a heaven ower your head here, as weel as in that fearful night atween the Ballyburghness and the Halket-head. D'ye think He, wha rebuked the waters, canna protect you against the wrath of men, though they be armed with human authority?"
"The watchman at Halket-head," said Major Neville, "as we discovered by an investigation which we made in our route hither, was most naturally misled by a bonfire which some idle people had made on the hill above Glenwithershins, just in the line of the beacon with which his corresponded."
"Eh! what what's that you say, sister? did the girl go out in a night like this to the Halket-head? Good God! the misery of the night is not ended yet!" "But ye winna wait, Monkbarns ye are so imperative and impatient" "Tittle-tattle, woman," said the impatient and agitated Antiquary, "where is my dear Mary?" "Just where ye suld be yoursell, Monkbarns up-stairs, and in her warm bed."
"Turn back! turn back!" exclaimed the vagrant; "why did ye not turn when I waved to you?" "We thought," replied Sir Arthur, in great agitation, "we thought we could get round Halket-head." "Halket-head! the tide will be running on Halket-head by this time like the Fall of Fyers! it was a' I could do to get round it twenty minutes since it was coming in three feet abreast.
"Turn back! turn back!" exclaimed the vagrant; "why did ye not turn when I waved to you?" "We thought," replied Sir Arthur, in great agitation, "we thought we could get round Halket-head." "Halket-head! the tide will be running on Halket-head by this time like the Fall of Fyers! it was a' I could do to get round it twenty minutes since it was coming in three feet abreast.
As the sun sank the wind rose, and the mass of waters began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows. Presently, through the drizzling rain, they saw a figure coming towards them, whom Sir Arthur recognised as the old blue-gowned beggar, Edie Ochiltree. "Turn back! Turn back!" exclaimed the vagrant. "The tide is running on Halket-head, like the Fall of Fyers!
It is said that even the brute creation lay aside their animosities and antipathies when pressed by an instant and common danger. The beach under Halket-head, rapidly diminishing in extent by the encroachments of a spring-tide and a north-west wind, was in like manner a neutral field, where even a justice of peace and a strolling mendicant might meet upon terms of mutual forbearance.
It is said that even the brute creation lay aside their animosities and antipathies when pressed by an instant and common danger. The beach under Halket-head, rapidly diminishing in extent by the encroachments of a spring-tide and a north-west wind, was in like manner a neutral field, where even a justice of peace and a strolling mendicant might meet upon terms of mutual forbearance.
"Are you sure this bad hour, Edie, is so very near? come, I know, it will." "It's e'en as I tell you, leddy. But dinna be cast down there's a heaven ower your head here, as weel as in that fearful night atween the Ballyburghness and the Halket-head. D'ye think He, wha rebuked the waters, canna protect you against the wrath of men, though they be armed with human authority?"
"Thank God," he exclaimed, "we shall get round Halket-head! that person must have passed it;" thus giving vent to the feeling of hope, though he had suppressed that of apprehension. "Thank God, indeed!" echoed his daughter, half audibly, half internally, as expressing the gratitude which she strongly felt.
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