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Ay, ay, who would know him to be Sir Keith Macleod?" "He wants me to go and see him; and I suppose I have no time to go home first " "Here is the list of the trains, mem," said Hamish, eagerly, producing a certain card. "And it iss me and Colin Laing, that's my cousin, mem; and we hef a cab outside; and will you go to the station?
But Hamish only replied by looking at and rubbing the lock of his gun. "Ay, rub the lock of your gun," said his parent bitterly. "I am glad you have courage enough to fire it? though it be but at a roe-deer." Hamish started at this undeserved taunt, and cast a look of anger at her in reply. She saw that she had found the means of giving him pain.
Shenac minced and swung her skirts as she moved, as little children do when they are playing "fine ladies." Even her mother could not help laughing, it was so unlike the busy, anxious Shenac of the last few months. "Is she not a vain creature?" said Shenac Dhu. "No wonder that you look at her that way, Hamish, lad." The eyes of Hamish shone with pride and pleasure as they followed his sister.
Oblige me by remaining one instant, while I call Hamish." Hamish entered in obedience. He appeared somewhat surprised to see them assembled in conclave, looking so solemn; but he supposed it related to Charles. Mr. Channing undeceived him. "Hamish, we are speaking of Arthur. Both these gentlemen have expressed a belief " "I beg your pardon," interrupted Mr. Huntley.
"Enough," said King Alexander, smiling as he signed to the page to retire. Then he drew Sir Piers and Kenric nearer to him. "The death of Hamish of Bute," said he, "is a sore calamity. We could ill spare him. But as concerning the matter of the Western Isles, the time has come for speedy action, and we must look to you, Sir Piers, and to you, Earl Kenric, for the help that we now need.
"Duncan," said Hamish, in a low whisper for Macleod had gone below, and they thought he might be asleep in the small, hushed stateroom, "this is a strange-looking day, is it not? And I am afraid of it in this open bay, with an anchorage no better than a sheet of paper for an anchorage. Do you see now how strange-looking it is?" Duncan Cameron also spoke in his native tongue; and he said,
And are they all as you are, Roderic, who have failed these many years to pay due tribute to the King of Scots?" "You are the only one among us," croaked Erland the Old, "who pays not homage to our rightful lord and sovereign the good King Hakon." "I owe no sort of fealty to Norway," said Hamish. "Nor do I know by what right Hakon claims sovereignty over any one of the isles south of Iona."
He was seated at his desk, deep in some accounts, on this same morning the one mentioned in the last chapter when one of the clerks entered, and said that Mr. Arthur Channing was asking to speak to him: for it was Mr. Hamish Channing's good pleasure not to be interrupted indiscriminately, unless a clerk first ascertained whether he was at liberty to be seen.
"Methinks," said Sweyn the Silent, looking up under his dark brows, "that Harald Fairhair settled that matter a good four hundred years ago." "Right well am I aware that at such time Harald did indeed conquer the Western Isles ay, even to Bute and Arran" returned Earl Hamish.
This was not easy to get, for the fate of Lewis might well fill the mother's heart with terror for Dan, who was much younger than his brother had been. But she consented at last, and Shenac and Hamish set themselves to make the best of Dan's going, for their mother's sake. "He'll be in safe keeping with the Camerons, mother, and it will do him good to rough it a little.
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