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And there was another pause, while each rolled a stone under his foot. "Cast your jaiket and I'll fecht ye for a bawbee," cried the elder boy with sudden violence, and dramatically throwing back his jacket. "Na, I have nae time the now," said Francie, with a sharp thrill of alarm, because Crozer was much the heavier boy. "Ye're feared.
Was it possible that Crozer could have boasted? that there were rumours abroad to his Heathercat's discredit? that his honour was publicly sullied? All the world went dark about him at the thought; he sank without a struggle into the midnight pool of despair; and every time he so sank, he brought back with him not drowned heroism indeed, but half-drowned courage by the locks.
He had observed that his friend, or rather his enemy, Jock Crozer, had been established at a very critical part of the line of outposts; namely, where the burn issues by an abrupt gorge from the semicircle of high moors. If anything was calculated to nerve him to battle it was this.
He had observed that his friend, or rather his enemy, Jock Crozer, had been established at a very critical part of the line of outposts; namely, where the burn issues by an abrupt gorge from the semicircle of high moors. If anything was calculated to nerve him to battle it was this.
Edward Crozer, Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd and Mrs. Norman MacLeod sold gowns for three hundred dollars each. Mrs. Harry Wain Harrison and Mrs. Robert von Moschzisker sold pieces of lace for a hundred dollars each. Mrs. A. J. Antelo Devereux, in smart riding costume, sold her fine hunter, led in amid great applause, for two thousand dollars. Mrs. George Q. Horwitz and Mrs.
'I'm very sorry, ma'am, said Francie. 'I humbly beg the Lord's pardon, and yours, for my wickedness. 'H'm, grunted the lady. 'Did ye see nobody else? 'No, ma'am, said Francie, with the face of an angel, 'except Jock Crozer, that gied me the billet. 'Jock Crozer! cried the lady. 'I'll Crozer them! Crozers indeed! What next? Are we to repose the lives of a suffering remnant in Crozers?
The whole clan of them wants hanging, and if I had my way of it, they wouldna want it long. Are you aware, sir, that these Crozers killed your forebear at the kirk-door?" "You see, he was bigger 'n me," said Francie. "Jock Crozer!" continued the lady. "That'll be Clement's son, the biggest thief and reiver in the countryside. To trust a note to him!
Heathercat indeed!" said Crozer, for among this infantile army of spies and messengers, the fame of Crozer had gone forth and was resented by his rivals. And with that they separated. On his way home Francie was a good deal occupied with the recollection of this untoward incident.
"Richt," said the barefoot boy; "wha're ye frae?" "The Leddy Montroymont," says Francie. "Ha'e, then!" says the stranger, and handed him a folded paper, and they stood and looked at each other again. "It's unco' het," said the boy. "Dooms het," says Francie. "What do they ca' ye?" says the other. "Francie," says he. "I'm young Montroymont. They ca' me Heathercat." "I'm Jock Crozer," said the boy.
"'Like honey from the honeycomb That dreepeth, sweeter far." My lady was now fairly launched, and that upon two congenial subjects: the deficiencies of the Lady Whitecross and the turpitudes of the whole Crozer race which, indeed, had never been conspicuous for respectability.
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