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Updated: May 8, 2025
He set to work, joyfully, cheerfully, scenting battle afar off, like Job's war-horse, and pawing for the battle. He sent back Alftruda's messenger, with this answer: "Tell your lady that I kiss her hands and feet. That I cannot write, for outlaws carry no pen and ink. But that what she has commanded, that will I perform." Then he sent out spies to the four airts of heaven.
"Send round the war-arrow!" shouted Perry himself; and if there was a man or two who shrank from the proposal they found it prudent to shout as loudly as did the rest. Ere the morning light, the war-arrow was split into four splinters, and carried out to the four airts, through all Kesteven.
"Anywhere nowhere everywhere; to 'all the airts the wind can blaw." It was a clear, bright morning, with a light, keen frost. On looking out, Glory saw that flags were flying on the public buildings. "Why, what's going on?" she said. "Don't you know? It's the ninth of November Lord Mayor's Day." She laughed merrily. "A good omen. I'm the female Dick Whittington! Here goes for it!
So it came to pass that within the space of half an hour the Avondale Douglases had sent men to the four airts, young Hugh Douglas himself riding west, while James stirred the folk of Avondale and Strathavon, and in all the courtyards and streets of the little feudal bourg there began the hum and buzz of the war assembly.
"And could we not be worse? I'm sure Black Duncan, reared in a bothy in Skye, who has been tossed by the sea, and been wet and dry in all airts of the world, would be a very thankless man if he was not pleased to be here safe and comfortable, on a steady bed at night, and not heeding the wind nor the storm no more than if he was a skart." "Oh! you're glad enough to be here, then?" said she.
At times I feel stifled down there in the Glen. You can breathe up here." "It is calm to-night," said Rosemary laughing. "If there were a wind it would blow your breath away. We get 'a' the airts the wind can blow' up here. This place should be called Four Winds instead of the Harbour." "I like wind," he said. "A day when there is no wind seems to me DEAD. A windy day wakes me up."
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