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I blame Auchinbreac; I blame the chieftains, they said I must take to the galley; I blame " "Blame no one, Argile," said Master Gordon, standing up before him, not a second too soon, for his lordship had his hand on the dirk M'Iver had thrown down. Then he turned to us with ejecting arms. "Out you go," he cried sternly, "out you go; what delight have you in seeing a nobleman on the rack?"
There may be some unco quirks to be performed, and some sore hearts to confer at the doing of them, but Heaven itself, for all its puissance, must shorten the pigeon's wing that the gled of the wood may have food to live on." "Upon my word, M'Iver," said Argile, "you beat me at my own trade of debate, and have you ever heard of a fellow Machiavelli?"
A tale went round, too, that one morning he went to a burial in Kilmalieu, and Argile was there seeing the last of an old retainer to his long home, and old Macnachtan came riding down past corpse and mourner with his only reverence a finger to his cap. "Come down off your horse when death or Argile goes bye," cried M'Iver, hauling the laird off his saddle.
At that M'Iver's countenance changed: he threw off his soft complacence, and cruelty and temper stiffened his jaw. "I'll soon give you that, my Lord of Argile," said he. "I can lie like a Dutch major for convenience sake, but put me on honour and you'll get the truth if it cost me my life.
Doubtless they have their own ideas of his lordship of Argile " "I never ask to serve a nobler or a more generous chief," said M'Iver, firmly. "I would expect no other sentiment from a gentleman of Argile's clan. He has ever done honestly enough by his own people. But have we not had enough of this? We are wasting our wind that should be more precious, considering the toils before us."
You do your duty by your enemy well enough, no doubt, a barbarian of the blackest will do no less, but it takes the better man to do his duty sternly by those he loves and by himself above all Argile " "Yes," cried I, "what about Argile?" The minister paid no heed to my question. "Argile," said he, "has been far too long flattered by you and your like, M'Iver." "Barbreck," put in my comrade.
But between Argile and him were no transactions; the pride of both would not allow it, though it was well known that their affections were stronger than ever they had been before, and that Gordon made more than one attempt at a plan to bring them together.
Coming this way from Lochow, the traveller will get his first sight of the waters of Loch Finne by standing on a stone that lies upon a little knowe above his lordship's stables. It is a spot, they say, Argile himself had a keen relish for, and after a day of chasing the deer among the hills and woods, sometimes would he come and stand there and look with satisfaction on his country.
The floor was a surface of burning marl and whitish earthy dough-like paste, the effect of sulphurous acid vapours upon the argile of the lava. This stratum was in places more than 80 feet thick; and fumes rose fetid with sulphuric acid, and sulphates of soda, alumina, and ammonia from the dead white, purple red, vivid green, and brilliant yellow surface of the solfatara.
"With that and no more of a principle in life except paying your way among friends a good man of his hands could make a very snug and reputable progress through the world." "Some men might," said Argile, calmly; "I do not know whether to envy or pity their kind. But they are not my kind.
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