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I am of an older clan than Campbell, and closer on Diarmaid than Argile himself; but we are all under the one banner now, and I'll tell you two gentlemen something. They may tear Castle Inneraora out at the roots, stable their horses in the yard of Kilmalieu, and tread real Argile in the clay, but well be even with them yet.
Seemingly the commotion had brought him from his bed, and up he now ran, and his little arms went round his father's knees. On my word I've seldom seen a man more vastly moved than was Archibald, Marquis of Argile.
It was the first time ever I saw Gillesbeg Gruamach sitting on the bench, and I was startled at the look of the man. I've seen some sour dogs in my day few worse than Ruthven's rittmasters whom we met in Swabia but I never saw a man who, at the first vizzy, had the dour sour countenance of Archibald, Marquis of Argile and Lord of Lochow.
I kept my anger out of my head, and sunk to the pit of my stomach while I spoke to him. "You have said too much about Archibald, Marquis of Argile," I said. "A week or two ago, the quarrel was more properly M'Iver's; now that he's severed by his own act from the clan, I'm ready to take his place and chastise you for your insolence. Are you willing, John?" I asked, turning to my friend.
In this matter of a woman's eyes if I may quit the thread of my history I am a trifle fastidious, and I make bold to say that the finest eyes in the world are those of the Highland girls of Argile burgh or landward the best bred and gentlest of them, I mean: There is in them a full and melting friendliness, a mixture to my sometimes notion of poetry and of calm a memory, as I've thought before, of the deep misty glens and their sights and secrets.
BRITISH. Bembridge fluvio-marine strata. Helen's series. FOREIGN. Gypsum of Montmartre, fresh-water with Palaeotherium. BRITISH. Bracklesham beds and Bagshot sands. FOREIGN. Calcaire grossier, miliolitic limestone. Nummulitic formation of Europe, Asia, etc. BRITISH. London Clay proper. FOREIGN. Argile de Londres, near Dunkirk. BRITISH. Upper white chalk, with flints.
Loch Finne less, as the whim of the fancy might have it, a loch than a noble river runs south in a placid band; the Cowal hills rise high on the left, bare but of heather and gall; in front is the heart of Argile, green with the forest of Creag Dubh, where the stag bays in the gloaming. For miles behind the town and castle lies a plain, flat and rich, growing the most lush crops.
It happened on a night of nights as the saying goes that thus we were gathered in the rushy flat of Elrigmore and our hearts easy as to reivers for was not MacCailein scourging them over the north? when a hint came to us of a strange end to these Lorn wars, and of the last days of the Lord of Argile.
I saw him once, empty-handed, in the forest, face the white stag and beat it off a hunter it was goring to death, and they say he never blenched when the bonnet was shot off his head at Drimtyne, but jested with a 'Close on't: a nail-breadth more, and Colin was heir to an earlhood!" "I'm sorry to think the worst of an Argile and a Campbell, but surely his place is here now."
"Tut, tut," said M'Iver, pouring his cousin a glass; "you're in the vapours, and need a good night's sleep. There's no one in Argile dare question your spirit, whatever they may think of your policy." Argile relapsed into his chair, and looked with a pitiful eye at his kinsman. "My good Iain," he said, "do you ken the old Lochow wife's story of the two daws?
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