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"That your Lordship may have the better view of this matter, it will be necessary that I should inform you, that this fellow has now, of a long time, put himself at the head of the Clan M'Gregor, a race of people who in all ages have distinguished themselves beyond others, by robberies, depredations, and murders, and have been the constant harbourers and entertainers of vagabonds and loose people.
"That it is, my leddy," he assented. "It's a black day indeed, when the heed o' a clan is struck doon by are o' his ain bleed. It's a great peety that the lad would ha' forgot what he owed to his salt. But I'm thinkin' they'll be hangin' him afore the year's oot." "Oh, Angus," cried Lady Ruth, in horrified tones, "don't talk in that dreadful way.
There are few things more humiliating to professional riders of the range than to be left afoot; and while Patches was far too much a novice to have acquired the peculiar and traditional tastes and habits of the clan of which he had that morning felt himself a member, he was, in this, the equal of the best of them.
For strangely out of place in that longitude this was a piece of snow-white fawn-skin; embroidered in fantastic colours, woven with porcupine quills; and adorned with a clan totem, known only in the region of the River St. Lawrence. He looked up promptly to the bearer's face.
The point we have now reached is this: while mother-right does not constitute or make necessary rule by women, under that system they enjoy considerable power as the result of their organised position under the maternal marriage among their own clan-kindred, of their importance to the male members of the clan as the transmitters and holders of property.
Then the Clan saluted, mounted at word of command, and with a wild whoop tore down the avenue in what they considered the true Arab style. "That was splendid, now it is safely ended," said Rose, skipping up the steps with her head over her shoulder to watch the dear tassels bob about. "I shall get you a pony as soon as you are a little stronger," said Dr. Alec, watching her with a smile.
'One good turn deserves another," quoted Emma fervently. "Bring forth the fateful time table and I'll sort out the trains and the order of arrival of the clan." "I haven't a time table," confessed Grace. "Then we'll have to let the trains run merrily on, and the railroad do its perfect work. I'm sorry I can't pay my debt of gratitude. I am always helpful. I was always helpful.
The idea would be to call the first of the clubs, the club of inventors, the Look-Up Club. The second, a club of how-men and engineers, the Try-Out Club, and the third the operating club of the vast body of the people taking direct action and putting the thing through locally and nationally would be called The Put-Through Clan.
At this time Sir John Dalrymple, afterwards Earl of Stair, being in attendance upon William as Secretary of State for Scotland, took advantage of Macdonald's neglecting to take the oath within the time prescribed, and procured from the King a warrant of military execution against that chief and his whole clan.
She takes but to give again As the sea returns the rivers in rain And gathers the chosen of her seed From the hunted of every crown and creed. In one strong race all races here unite. Tongues meet in hers, hereditary foemen Forget their sword and slogan, kith and clan. 'Twas glory, once, to be a Roman: She makes it glory, now, to be a man!
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