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Updated: June 12, 2025
He quickly resolved to test this in such a manner as would leave no doubt in his mind that a secret-keeping wife he might find in his humble maiden of Ballochgray woods. He had three times visited Christ's Kirk in such a manner as would raise an intense curiosity in the inhabitants as to who he was.
"Is not that Ballochgray Castle?" said Marion, at last "that fearfu place whar the Baron of Ballochgray haulds his court with the Evil One, on every Halloween night, when the bleak muirs are rife with the bad spirits o' the earth and air. Whar drives the man, Geordie? Oh, tell him to turn awa frae thae auld turrets and skreeching owls.
But he had, doubtless, so far succeeded in his plans; for he possessed a most unenviable fame for all sort of cantrips and sorceries; and the wandering beggar would rather have solicited a bit of bread from the iron hand of misery itself, than ventured near Ballochgray to ask his awmous. "I winna gang near that fearfu place, Geordie!" again cried Marion.
"What hae ye, a puir hind, to do wi' the Baron o' Ballochgray? Turn, for the sake o' heaven! turn frae that living grave o' dry banes, an' the weary goul that sits jabbering owre them, by their ain light!"
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