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With bandaged head and one arm in a sling he sat at the kitchen table at The Holms, explaining to his father and some neighbours the fortunes of the fight. The enemy lay on the other side of Chippewa Creek, and didn't move till late in the afternoon.
The stream between these islands and holms is sometimes rapid, deep, and clear; sometimes like a broad rivulet with silky-green rushes, water-lilies, and brown-feathered reeds; sometimes it is a brook with a stony ground, and now it spreads itself out in a large, still mill-dam. Here is a landscape in Midsummer for the games of the river-sprites, and the dancers of the elves and fairies!
I had recollections, too, of fair and fertile holms, or level plains, extending between the wooded banks and the bold stream of the Clyde, which, coloured like pure amber, or rather having the hue of the pebbles called Cairngorm, rushes over sheets of rock and beds of gravel, inspiring a species of awe from the few and faithless fords which it presents, and the frequency of fatal accidents, now diminished by the number of bridges.
There were many armed servants in his following, for he was a person of great consequence, and was held in high honour throughout the land. He rode across the marketplace and there alighted from his horse, and turned his eyes towards the sea. Before him stretched the rippling, sunlit bay with its wooded holms.
On the evening of that eventful day, again a family gathering took place at The Holms for so closely had trial, adventure, and suffering for a common cause knit together the guests and inmates, that they seemed like a family group. The sword of the grandfather, above the mantel, was now crossed by the cavalry sabre of Zenas, and the old Brown Bess was flanked by the dragoon's carbine.
The country is now covered with deeper soil, and many large acacia-trees grow in the rich loam: the holms too are large, and many islands afford convenient maize grounds. I cannot impress either on them or the sepoys that it is wrong to sleep on the march. Akosakoné, whom we had liberated, now arrived at the residence of her husband, who was another brother of Machemba.
And the interest of Mantes, after all, is mainly negative. The town stands well; its river, its bridges, its islands, suggest the days when Scandinavian pirates sailed up the Seine and encamped with special delight on such eys or holms as that between Mantes and Limay.
It is not a journey that is often made nowadays, but with all the lights of the morning upon Demayat and his attendant mountains, and the sun shining upon that rich valley, and the river at its leisure wending, as if it loved them, through all the verdant holms and haughs, there is no pleasanter way of travelling from Edinburgh to Stirling, the two hill-castles of the Scottish crown.
Miss Katherine Drayton this was the young lady's name was the eldest daughter of Squire Drayton, of The Holms, as the farm was called, from the evergreen oaks that grew upon the riverbank. Her mother having been dead for some years, Katherine had the principal domestic management of the household.
Only the two holms broke the line of water to the north and east up channel. Then the thought came to me that the Danes were gone, and what use going further with this errand? So I went on. Now, at last, was I but a mile or two from Stert, and began to wish to meet one to whom to give the arrow but saw no man. I turned aside to a little cluster of thralls' and churls' huts I knew.
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