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Meanwhile, I pray you hear me, Rosamund. I am your cousin, and we were brought up together indeed, except when I was away at the Scottish war, we have never been apart. Therefore, we know each other well, as well as any can who are not wedded. Therefore, too, you will know that I have always loved you, first as a brother loves his sister, and now as a man loves a woman."
Her husband had been taught Latin, but his acquaintance with modern tongues was of the nautical order, and entirely oral and vernacular. However, it enabled him to aver that the letter if such it were was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all directions, and shook his head over it. "Who can read it, for us?" asked Mrs. Talbot.
Locke was the first to call attention to general approval as an external mark of moral action, a hint which the Scottish moralists subsequently exploited.
Therefore they said, 'If we live quiet in our trenches in Edinburgh here, and if all the farmers come into the town and desert the country, the Ironsides will be driven out by iron hunger and be forced to go away. This was, no doubt, the wisest plan; but as the Scottish clergy would interfere with what they knew nothing about, and would perpetually preach long sermons exhorting the soldiers to come out and fight, the soldiers got it in their heads that they absolutely must come out and fight.
Of the Scottish hills, though born among them, as I have always been assured, I have but an indistinct recollection.
This plan succeeded; Colchester was assailed and defended with equal resolution; nor was its fate decided till the failure of the Scottish invasion had proved the utter hopelessness of the royal cause. It soon appeared that the restoration of the impeached and excluded members, combined with the departure of the officers to their commands in the army, had imparted a new tone to the proceedings in
Fillian's monastery by the falsehoods of one Scottish knight, and were rescued from his power by the gallantry of another, I sought the protection of my aunt, Lady Ruthven, who then dwelt at Alloa, on the banks of the Forth. Her husband had been invited to Ayr by some treacherous requisition of the governor, Arnuf; and with many other lords was thrown into prison.
If he see but two men talk and read a letter in the street, he runs to them and asks if he may not be partner of that secret relation; and if they deny it, he offers to tell, since he may not hear, wonders, and then falls upon the report of the Scottish mine, or of the great fish taken up at Lynne, or of the freezing of the Thames, and after many thanks and admissions is hardly entreated silence.
The instances of Robert Burns and Thomas Carlyle, who both came out of homes in which religion and religion of the old Scottish type was the deepest interest, will occur to everyone. Not the least striking illustration of this principle is shown in the case of John Cairns.
"I was told by my good friend and commanding officer, Colonel Hume of the 2nd Scottish Dragoons, your royal highness." "I revealed it to Hume before leaving Paris," the duke said, "he being a great friend of mine and as staunch as steel, and I knew that he could be trusted to keep a secret." "It seems that in the last particular you were wrong," the prince remarked with a slight smile.
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