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"I'll no' say but it might just be that," says Ronny, with a thinking look in his eyes. "There was a lass o' that name, on a Hielan' pony, met Dan and me at Bothanairidh the day before the snow," says I. "She talked about ye for a while." "She would be having nothing good to be saying," says he with a laugh.
"A great litigant, an enthusiastic agriculturist, a dealer in Hielan' nowt something of a Hielan' nowt himself, a semi-auctioneer, a great hand as chairman at an agricultural dinner, a visitor to the Baker Street Bazaar when the Smithfield Shows were held there and where the Cockneys mistook him for one of the exhibits and began pinching and punching him."
"In fact I cannot understand how they got at the thing so quickly." "Didn't you hear him call?" said Cameron. "It was his call that did it. Something he said turned them into devils. They were bound to do for me. I never saw Indians act like that." "Yes, I heard that call, and it mighty near did the trick for you. Thank Heaven your thick Hielan' skull saved you."
He would instead try and escape across the Red Sea and rejoin his family. The Arab clansmen are like the Hielan' caterans; they may fight and quarrel with one another, but unless there is a blood feud it is unlikely they will help either the English or the Egyptians to bag old Osman Digna. If the Turk gets him for a subject, well, the Sublime Porte is likely to be deeply sorry for it later on.
Count Victor laughed, with a gesture of his hands that made denial all unnecessary. "Oh, but you do not know," went on the Baron. "Some months of caballing with our friends even our Hielan' friends in the France, left me with an unwholesome heart that would almost doubt my father in his grave.
We sat down to a meal of salted herrings in Alastair's kitchen, the weans round us still sleepy and barefooted, and with tousled red locks, which they flung from their eyes with a gesture very like a spirited Hielan' pony tossing its mane; and when I looked from the door again which I was glad enough to do, for the reek was a little nippy to my eyes as I looked from the door I saw Belle returning, and with her no other than Robin McKelvie of the Quay Inn.
They had seen inside the door that day quite by accident, and the place was a dreary sight: a broken-down old table, and only a piece of a log for a seat, and a heap of rags and straw in an old bunk for a bed. "Eh, poor man! poor buddy!" cried old lady Cameron pityingly. "An' him with such a fine Hielan' name, too!" Mrs.
The stranger was robed in some kin' o' a plaid, like the gude man himsel', but whether a lowlan' or a hielan' plaid, he cudna tell. But the face o' the man that was ane no to be forgotten an' that for the verra freenliness o' 't! An' whan he spak, it was as gien a' the v'ices o' them 'at had gane afore, war made up intil ane, for the sweetness an' the pooer o' the same.
With that the jailer came out to my grandfather. "'Mr. McTavish, says he, taking off his hat, 'you are a free man, and I'm glad of it. Then he told him what Tougal had done. "'I hope you will not have any hard feelings toward me, Mr. McTavish, said the jailer; and a decent man he wass, for all that there wass not a drop of Hielan' blood in him.
It's the build o' them, 'Lowlan' or 'Hielan', the breed o' them; the dour hard character o' their country and their mainner o' leevin'. We gied the English a fleg at the 'Forty-five, didnae we? That was where the tartan cam' in: man, there's naethin' like us!" "You do not speak like a Highlander," said Montaiglon, finding some of this gasconade unintelligible.
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