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'That will not be very pleasant, Callum, nor altogether safe, for our host seems a person of great curiosity; but a traveller must submit to these inconveniences. Meanwhile, my good lad, here is a trifle for you to drink Vich Ian Vohr's health. The hawk's eye of Callum flashed delight upon a golden guinea, with which these last words were accompanied.
But there is another and a higher merit with which we are as much struck and as much delighted as any true-born Scotchman could be: the various gradations of Scotch feudal character, from the high-born chieftain and the military baron, to the noble-minded lieutenant Evan Dhu, the robber Bean Lean, and the savage Callum Beg. The Pre the Chevalier, is beautifully drawn
Waverley thought he had misunderstood his meaning; he gazed in his face, and discovered in Callum's very handsome, though embrowned features, just the degree of roguish malice with which a lad of the same age in England would have brought forward a plan for robbing an orchard. 'Good God, Callum, would you take the man's life?
"They're fine, I'd have ye know," replied Mrs. Butler, quite unconscious of the joke. "No doubt of it, mother," replied Callum. "Real brain-food. Let's feed some to Norah." "You'd better eat some yourself, smarty. My, but you're gay! I suppose you're going out to see somebody. That's why." "Right you are, Norah. Smart girl, you. Five or six. Ten to fifteen minutes each.
It was still constantly repeated, in verse and prose, that the finest part of the domain belonging to the ancient heads of the Gaelic nation, Islay, where they had lived with the pomp of royalty, Iona, where they had been interred with the pomp of religion, the paps of Jura, the rich peninsula of Kintyre, had been transferred from the legitimate possessors to the insatiable Mac Callum More.
But observing him rouse himself at the sight of the village, Callum pressed closer to his side, and hoped 'When they cam to the public, his honour wad not say nothing about Vich Ian Vohr, for ta people were bitter Whigs, deil burst tem.
Adieu, Fergus; do not permit your sister to forget me. 'And adieu, Waverley; you may soon hear of her with a prouder title. Thus parted the friends; Fergus returning back to his castle, while Edward, followed by Callum Beg, the latter transformed from point to point into a Low-Country groom, proceeded to the little town of .
'Callum, said he, as they proceeded down a dirty close to gain the southern skirts of the Canongate, 'what shall I do for a horse? 'Ta deil ane ye maun think o', said Callum. 'And so I will, Callum give me my target; so, there we are fixed. How does it look?
A law was passed for the more effectual suppressing of depredations and outrages beyond the Highland line; and in that law was inserted a special proviso reserving to Mac Callum More his hereditary jurisdiction.
The officer signified his acquiescence in both commands, and Edward followed Fergus to the garden-gate, where Callum Beg, with three saddle-horses, awaited them.
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