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"If he try to escape, I swear by the bones of my grandfather," said the more inimical of the two, inheritor of a clan-feud with the Macruadhs, "I will shoot him." Bob of the Angels burst into a scornful laugh. "You will! will you?" "I will not kill him; I don't want to be hanged for him! but I will empty my shot-barrel into the legs of him! So take your chance; you are warned!"
"If he try to escape, I swear by the bones of my grandfather," said the more inimical of the two, inheritor of a clan-feud with the Macruadhs, "I will shoot him." Bob of the Angels burst into a scornful laugh. "You will! will you?" "I will not kill him; I don't want to be hanged for him! but I will empty my shot-barrel into the legs of him! So take your chance; you are warned!"
It was very odd, she thought, but not very interesting. She had expected a tale of clan-feud, or a love-story! Yet the seriousness of her companion in its narration had made some impression upon her. "They told me you were an officer," she said, "but I see you are a clergyman! Do you tell stories like that from the pulpit?" "I am a soldier," answered Ian, "not a clergyman.
"Stop that clan-feud!" bawled the patroon, angrily. But the old clan-feud blazed up, kindled from the ever-smouldering embers of Glencoe, which the massacre of a whole clan had not extinguished in all these years. "And why should an Argyle Campbell judge blood?" cried Captain Campbell, in a menacing voice. "And why not?" retorted McDonald. "Breadalbane spilled enough to teach ye." "Teach who?"
It was very odd, she thought, but not very interesting. She had expected a tale of clan-feud, or a love-story! Yet the seriousness of her companion in its narration had made some impression upon her. "They told me you were an officer," she said, "but I see you are a clergyman! Do you tell stories like that from the pulpit?" "I am a soldier," answered Ian, "not a clergyman.
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