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In the one case he would hang us offhand, in the other there's a hair's-breadth of chance that he might keep us as hostages." "But in any tartan, cousin, you're not going to let yourself be caught," said Argile. "We have too much need for you here. Indeed, if I thought you were not certain to get through all right, I would send cheaper men in your place." John laughed.
That a formation so much explored for economical purposes as the Argile plastique around Paris, and the clays and sands of corresponding age near London, should never have afforded any vestige of a feathered biped previously to the year 1855, shows what diligent search and what skill in osteological interpretation are required before the existence of birds of remote ages can be established.
The Low-landers raw lads became boisterous; our Gaels, stern with remembrance and eagerness for the coming business, thawed to their geniality, and soon the laugh and song went round our camp. Argile himself for a time joined in our diversion. He came out of his tent and lay in his plaid among his more immediate followers, and gave his quota to the story or the guess.
Whaups rose off the sand, and, following the gleam upon the braes, ascended from slope to slope, and the plover followed too, dipping his feet in the golden tide receding. On little fir-patches mounted numerous blackcock of sheeny feather, and the owls began to hoot in the wood beyond. We had eaten to the last crumb, and were ready to be going, when again I asked Gordon what had come over Argile.
The deer and the heath-cock, the curd from the pen, The blaeberry fresh from the dew! We saw the piper strut upon the gravelled walk beside the bridgegate, we saw Argile himself come out to meet the traveller. "MacCailein! MacCailein! Ah the dear heart!" cried all our people, touched by this rare and genteel courtesy.
M'Iver was too busy for a time upon the sudden rupture with Argile to pay very much heed to my defence of Master Gordon. The quarrel to call that a quarrel in which one man had all the bad temper and the other nothing but self-reproach had soured him of a sudden as thunder turns the morning's cream to curd before noon. And his whole demeanour revealed a totally new man.
We were always served with coffee, sherbet, and argile; and in the houses of the Turks a dreary conversation was carried on through the medium of an interpreter. Walks and places of amusement there are none. The number of Franks resident here is too small to call for a place of general recreation, and the Turk never feels a want of this kind.
But Argile laughed at the thing, no way alarmed, and then with a grave demeanour he said, said he, 'The wine's in your head, sir; and even if it was an omen, what then? The axe in troublous times is no disgrace, and a chief of Clan Diarmaid would be a poor chief indeed if he failed to surrender his head with some show of dignity."
"There's no more cure," said he, "for death in a common herd than for the same murrain in an ensign of foot." "A scholar's sentiment!" cried Argile. "Are you taking to the philosophies?" "It's the sentiment, or something like it, of your chaplain, Master Gordon," said John; "he reproved me with it on Dunchuach.
M'Iver darted a look of annoyance at the minister, who seemed to pay no heed, but still to have his thoughts far off. If the minister has been preaching, it's his trade; it's what you pay him for. I'm no homilist, thank God, and no man's conscience." "No, no; God knows you are not," said Argile, in a tone of pity and vexation.
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