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"Traitor!" cried the English commander, while with a sudden and dreadful stroke of his battle-ax he laid the body of the generous Scot a headless corpse at his feet. A direful cry proceeded from his enraged comrades.
There is one other mode of temptation which was adopted by the evil spirits, implicated to a great extent with the traditions of witchcraft, but nevertheless more suitably handled as a separate subject, which is of so gross and revolting a nature that it should willingly be passed over in silence, were it not for the fact that the belief in it was, as Scot says, "so stronglie and universallie received" in the times of Elizabeth and James.
Scrope found it sounded better to multiply the number of the raiders by five, but Scottish tongues were not slow to tell the affronting truth, and the Englishmen of Carlisle had the extra bitterness of being butts for the none too subtle jests of every Scot on the Border. The success of so daring a venture made the Scottish reivers arrogant.
"Even the most daring would scarcely venture, I hope, to attack a fleet among which are so many armed vessels, well able either to defend themselves or to retaliate on an intruder," answered Lieutenant Foley, whose thoughts immediately flew to the Ouzel Galley. "They would run the chance of getting off scot free in the confusion their sudden appearance would make," said Mr Tarwig.
"I won't be given the whole," said Charles, with an oath. "Give me enough to settle the Jews, and I will do the rest out of my income. I won't get off scot free." "Well, then, have your own way, as usual, and name the sum you want. There, take it," he said, feebly, when Charles had mentioned with shame a certain hideous figure, "and go.
One of the biggest-hearted, most amiable and generous of men, ha was known as the coolest and most utterly fearless in a country where few men were cowards. At nightfall, the mare well fed and groomed and lightly saddled, Scot mounted, bearing no arms but his two pistols, called a careless "Hasta luego, amigos" to his friends, and trotted off up the road.
McTavish reflected, "Tell her," he said presently, "when you see her, that I'm not Carnegie, nor near it. But tell her that, as we Americans say, 'I've enough for two." "Oh," said Mrs. Nevis, "that would mean too much or too little to a Scot." "Call it, then," said McTavish, "several million pounds." "Several," Mrs. Nevis reflected. "Say three," said McTavish. Mrs. Nevis sighed.
The Earl of Carlisle ... wrought himself into ... greater affection and esteem with the whole English nation, than any other of that country; by choosing their friendships, and conversation, and really preferring it to any of his own Swift. A miracle in a Scot!
"Body o' me! then you are welcome as ever Scot was to England, and that's not saying much. But get on, man let's hear what you have got to say at once." "I presume, this gentleman," continued the North Briton, "told you there was a person of the name of Campbell with him, when he had the mischance to lose his valise?"
Think o' the siller it must ha' cost. ''Ow would you like to be a shareholder in the company, Jock? said his companion. 'Ain't many divvydends due to 'em this Christmas. The Scot shook his head sadly. 'This place an' the hale toon laid waste, he said. 'It's awfu' tae think o' it. 'An' this is one bloomin' pebble in a whole bloomin' beach, said the other.
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