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Updated: September 11, 2025
"You will not accept the invitation to go to the Braes yourself, then?" asked the High Sheriff gravely, though there was the suggestion of a smile around the corners of his mouth. The Chairman hesitated.
Give me leave to tell you, sir, there is too much incident." I had like to have forgot thanking you for that exquisite little morsel, the first Sclavonian Song. The expression in the second, "more happy to be unhappy in hell," is it not very quaint? Accept my thanks, in common with those of all who love good poetry, for "The Braes of Yarrow."
By the time the sun was down and all the easterly braes lay plunged in clear shadow, she was aware of another figure coming up the path at a most unequal rate of approach, now half running, now pausing and seeming to hesitate. She watched him at first with a total suspension of thought. She held her thought as a person holds his breathing. Then she consented to recognise him.
The next day M'Brair was abroad in the afternoon, and had a long advising with Janet on the braes where she herded cattle. What passed was never wholly known; but the lass wept bitterly, and fell on her knees to him among the whins. The same night, as soon as it was dark, he took the road again for Balweary.
He had to be convinced if possible, convicted in any case overborne. To accomplish this Mary Lyon would put forth all her powers, in spite of her husband's smiles or perhaps a good deal because of them. Upon her excellent authority, he was stated to be the most irritating man betwixt the Brigend of Dumfries and the Braes of Glenap.
His recklessness cost him one ring, but as the Discarded had lost one, they were still tied, with eight rings to the credit of each, for the first prize. Only four others were left the Knight of the Holston and the Knight of the Green Valley tying with seven rings for second prize, and the fat Maxwelton Braes and the Knight at Large tying with six rings for the third.
"Indeed, it will be a very unusual thing for strangers to be speaking to each other on the causeway," she replied. "But if you are landward bred it will be different. I am as landward as yourself; I am Highland, as you see, and think myself the farther from my home." "It is not yet a week since I passed the line," said I. "Less than a week ago I was on the braes of Balwhidder."
'Hout, ye silly bairn! said the father, 'dinna do it nae mair, and come in by to your supper. And he took the boy, and drew him close to him a moment, as they went through the door, with something very fond and secret, like a caress between a pair of lovers. The next day M'Brair was abroad in the afternoon, and had a long advising with Janet on the braes where she herded cattle.
"There may be terror, and there may be gloom, but I shall watch my children's children play upon the braes of Shira Glen." "You are very joco," said John to me as I broke into a little laugh of content with myself. "It's the first time you ever charged me with jocosity, John," I said "I'm just kind of happy thinking."
"Ha' ye seen a' the men frae the braes and the glen, Ha' ye seen them a' marchin' awa'? Ha' ye seen a' the men frae the wee but-an'-ben, And the gallants frae mansion and ha'?" I have said before that I do not want to tell you of the tales of atrocities that I heard in France. I heard plenty ayes and terrible they were!
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