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Tak me to the bloody Claverhouse, if you will, and at the day o' judgment it shall be said 'Let the murderers o' John Brydone stand forth!" "Let us despatch them at once," said one of the troopers. "Nay," said the sergeant; "bind them together, and drive them before us to the captain: I don't know but he may wish to do justice to them with his own hand."
After they had sung a psalm and prayed together "I am auld," said John Brydone, "and I fear not to die, but rather glory to lay down my life for the great cause; but, oh, Daniel! my heart yearns that yer bluid also should be shed had they only spared ye, to hae been a protector to our puir Mary! or had I no driven Philip frae the house" "Mention not the name of the cast-away," said the minister.
Admiral Smyth, who takes the lowest estimate, giving 163 feet, and Brydone giving, as the highest, 204 feet. In the middle of the cavity a hut is built, for the accommodation of those who collect and preserve the chestnuts.
No wound was detected upon her person, but her hair was singed and a part of a silver comb melted. Here metal seems to have conducted the electricity to the body. On the other hand, the traveller Brydone relates a circumstance which happened to a lady who was regarding a thunderstorm from her window. At a flash of lightning her bonnet was reduced to ashes, nothing else about her being affected.
Mary Brydone had always been dear to him; and, as he grew towards manhood, he gazed on her beautiful features with delight; but it was not the calm delight of a brother contemplating the fair face of a sister; for Philip's heart glowed as he gazed, and the blush gathered on his cheek.
John Brydone, having been furnished with a sword, had not been idle during the engagement; but, as he had fought upon foot, and the greater part of Lesly's army were cavalry, he had not joined in the pursuit; and, when the battle was over, he conceived it to be as much his duty to act the part of the Samaritan, as it had been to perform that of a soldier.
"No more of your homily, reverend oracle," said the sergeant; "I have an excellent recipe for short sermons here; utter another word and you shall have it!" The troopers laughed again, and the sergeant, as he spoke, held his pistol in the face of the preacher. Besides the clergyman, there were in the room old John Brydone, his son Daniel, and Mary.
Brydone, the relict of the traveller, and daughter of Principal Robertson, and really worthy of such a connection Lady Minto, who is also peculiarly agreeable and her sister, Mrs. Admiral Adam, in the evening. December 23.
Furthermore, he extols the precision and accuracy of her execution and intonation, and the thrilling quality of her voice. Brydone, who appears to have been fascinated with this siren, has an amusing apology for her carelessness of her duties in England, which he insists was not caprice, but inability to sing.
Brydone, asserts that the art of enlarging the livers of geese still exists in Sicily; and it is to be lamented that he did not import it into his native country, as some method of affecting the human liver might perhaps have been collected from it; besides the honour he might have acquired in improving our giblet pies.
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