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One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron's dule-tree. For the rusty blunderbuss of Scots criminal justice, which usually hurt nobody but jurymen, became a weapon of precision for the Nicksons, the Ellwalds, and the Crozers.
And the legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their authentic speech, surviving with their ancestral inheritance of melancholy perversity and patient, unfortunate courage. Ninian Traquair was "cruallie slochtered" by the Crozers at the kirk-door of Balweary, anno 1482.
One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron's dule-tree. For the rusty blunderbuss of Scots criminal justice, which usually hurt nobody but jurymen, became a weapon of precision for the Nicksons, the Ellwalds, and the Crozers.
The Elliotts themselves have had a chequered history; but these Elliotts deduced, besides, from three of the most unfortunate of the border clans the Nicksons, the Ellwalds, and the 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 country-side. To trust a note to him!
'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?
And the legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their authentic speech, surviving with their ancestral inheritance of melancholy perversity and patient, unfortunate courage. Ninian Traquair was 'cruallie slochtered' by the Crozers at the kirk-door of Balweary, anno 1482.
"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 Elliotts themselves have had a chequered history; but these Elliotts deduced, besides, from three of the most unfortunate of the border clans the Nicksons, the Ellwalds, and the 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!
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