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Updated: June 28, 2025
I fear that a certain defiant tone and Covenanter's swing to its chorus, rather than any devotional quality, caused it speedily to infect the others, who at last joined in the refrain: "I'm proud to live in the service of the Lord, And I'm bound to die in His army."
God! but yon puir, thrawn, auld Covenanter's seen a heap o' human natur since he lookit his last on the musket barrels, if he never saw nane afore," she added, with a kind of wonder in her eyes. "I swear by my honour I have done her no wrong," said Archie. "I swear by my honour and the redemption of my soul that there shall none be done her. I have heard of this before.
"Lot stayed on to the last, and tried to warn them! I will warn the Resident! Here, give me my writing things where are they?" He pushed her aside, none too gently, for the fire of a Covenanter's anger was blazing in his eyes. "There are forty thousand British soldiers standing still, and wrong black, shameful wrong is being done!
The history and music of Scotland threw fresh light upon each other under his researches. He delighted to trace the reciprocal influence of national events and national music, from the time of the Culdee establishments of the sixth century, when 'Iona was the Rome of the north, down to the Covenanter's Lament, and the Jacobite songs of the last century.
And Archie was now free by devious paths, behind hillocks and in the hollow of burns to make for the trysting-place where Kirstie, cried about by the curlew and the plover, waited and burned for his coming by the Covenanter's Stone. Innes went off down-hill in a passion of resentment, easy to be understood, but which yielded progressively to the needs of his situation.
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