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Of these the Lady of Avenel had none who survived, and the dames of the neighbouring barons affected to regard her less as the heiress of the house of Avenel than as the wife of a peasant, the son of a church-vassal, raised up to mushroom eminence by the capricious favour of Murray.
"Who is it," said one, "dare intrude on us in our own mansion?" "Cut him to pieces," said another; "let him pay for this day's insolence and violence he is some follower of the Rothes." "No, by Saint Mary," said another; "he is a follower of the arch-fiend and ennobled clown Halbert Glendinning, who takes the style of Avenel once a church-vassal, now a pillager of the church."
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