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Although he had never seen him before, Malcolm perceived at once it must be Lord Lossie, and lifted his bonnet. The marquis nodded and passed on, but the next moment, hearing the noise of Malcolm's proceedings with the swivel, turned and said "What are you about there with that gun, my lad?" "I'm jist ga'in' to dicht her oot an' lod her, my lord," answered Malcolm. "And what next?
Thereupon Malcolm began at the beginning, and told of the men he had watched, and how, in the fancy of following them, he had found himself in the garret, and what he saw and did there. "Did you recognize either of the women?" asked Lord Lossie. "Ane o' them, my lord," answered Malcolm. "It was Mistress Catanach, the howdie." "What sort of a woman is she?" "Some fowk canna bide her, my lord.
Thus authorised and admonished, Barret finished breakfast, put on his own garments which, like those of his companions, were semi-nautical and sallied forth for an eight miles' walk over the mountains to the mansion of the laird, which lay on the other side of the Eagle's Cliff ridge, on the shores of Loch Lossie.
Abandoning all her remaining effects to Jean's curiosity, if indeed it were no worse demon that possessed her, Miss Horn, carrying a large reticule, betook herself to the Lossie Arms, to await the arrival of the mail coach from the west, on which she was pretty sure of a vacant seat.
Jeff sighed when he was ushered into the dingy attic where he was to pass the night, thinking of his own little white bed at Loch Lossie and all the dainty arrangements of bath and dressing paraphernalia. The next morning he was astir at day-break, and without casting a glance at his sleeping companion he went softly down the stairs and laid his payment on the kitchen table.
There's my mistress, the Marchioness of Lossie." The man saw an ugly look in Kelpie's eye, withdrew his hand, and turned to Florimel. "My groom is not to blame," said she. "Lord Liftore struck his mare, and she became ungovernable." The man gave a look at Liftore, seemed to take his likeness, touched his hat, and withdrew. "You'd better ride the jade home," said Liftore.
The evening came, and the company at Lossie House was still seated at table, Clementina heartily weary of the vapid talk that had been going on all through the dinner, when she was informed that a fisherman of the name of Mair was at the door, accompanied by his wife, saying they had an appointment with her.
At the proper stations Duncan blew a rousing pibroch, after which the bellman, who, for the dignity of his calling, insisted on a prelude of three strokes of his clapper, proclaimed aloud that Malcolm, marquis of Lossie, desired the presence of each and every of his tenants in the royal burgh of Portlossie, Newton and Seaton, in the town-hall of the same, at seven of the clock upon the evening next following.
She cherished no resentment against Liftore, but not therefore was she willing to allow a poor young thing like Lady Lossie, whom they all liked, to be sacrificed to such a man, who would doubtless at length behave badly enough to her also.
At Lossie he had made himself agreeable to her, and now, if not actually living in the same house, he was there at all hours of the day. It took nothing from his anxiety to see that his lordship was greatly improved.
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