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I could have wished, though, they had rather putten a ball through him, or a dirk; for the fashion of removing him will give rise to mony idle clavers But every wight has his weird, and we maun a' dee when our day comes And naebody will deny that Helen MacGregor has deep wrongs to avenge."
Mind ye that gin the forbears o' the daddy o' ye was on the wrang side o' Bothwell Brig that day an' guid Westland bluid they spilt, nae doot, Whigs though they waur there's that in ye that rode doon the West Port wi' Clavers, an' cried: 'Up wi' the bonnets o' bonny Dundee!"
"And yet I dinna ken," said Kirstie. "He's maybe no more stock-fish than his neeghbours! He rode wi' the rest o' them, and had a good stamach to the work, by a' that I hear! God's Remnant! The deil's clavers! There wasna muckle Christianity in the way Hob guided Johnny Dickieson, at the least of it; but Guid kens! Is he a Christian even?
In the name of Him who is all mercy, show mercy to this unhappy man, and do not dip your hands in his blood, nor rush into the very crime which you are desirous of avenging!" "Cut your sermon short you are not in your pulpit," answered one of the rioters. "If we hear more of your clavers," said another, "we are like to hang you up beside him." "Peace hush!" said Wildfire.
At this instant a boy about twelve years of age was dragged into the room, and questioned respecting the place of his father's retreat, sometimes in a coaxing, and at others in a threatening manner. The boy presented, to every inquiry, the aspect of dogged resistance and determined silence. "Have the bear's cub to the croft," said Clavers, "and shoot him on the spot."
Weej, mither, I hae just ae word mair An I hear ony mair o' your din afore folk, that is, for I dinna mind your clavers mysell, they aye set me sleeping but if I hear ony mair din afore folk, as I was saying, about Poundtexts and Rumbleberries, and doctrines and malignants, I'se e'en turn a single sodger mysell, or maybe a sergeant or a captain, if ye plague me the mair, and let Rumbleberry and you gang to the deil thegither.
Even the heart of Clavers was somewhat moved at this scene; and he was in the act of giving orders for an immediate retreat, when there rushed into the circle, in all the frantic wildness of a maniac, at once the father and the husband.
I'll warrant you do not know anything of that, but it's the clavers of the Crosswell." She hurried on, glad to get upon a topic even so little away from what had vexed her darling. "Old Islay has his schemes, they say, to get Maam tacked on to his own tenancy of Drimlee and his son out of the army, and the biggest gentleman farmer in the shire.
'Jean, she murmured, low and hoarsely, 'Margaret's shroud is up to her throat. 'Hoots with thy clavers, exclaimed Jeanie in return. 'I never let thee sing that fule song, but Meg's fancies have brought the megrims into thine head! Thou and she are pair. 'That we shall be nae longer, sighed Eleanor. 'I saw the shroud as clear as I see yon cross on the spire.
I tauld them I wad vindicate nae man's faults; but set apart what he had done again the law o' the country, and the hership o' the Lennox, and the misfortune o' some folk losing life by him, he was an honester man than stood on ony o' their shanks And whatfor suld I mind their clavers?
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