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Updated: June 14, 2025
I am glad to see you back, more especially as Master Gordon was just telling me of the surprise at Dalness, and the chance that you had been cut down there by the MacDonalds, who, luckily for him and Sonachan and the others, all followed you in your flight, and gave them a chance of an easy escape." He shook hands with us warmly enough, with fingers moist and nervous.
At last, by striking to an angle down a field that suddenly rolled down beside me, I found soft carpeting for my feet, and put an increasing distance between us. With no relaxation to my step, however, I kept running till I seemed a good way clear of Dalness policies, and on a bridle-path that led up the glen the very road, as I learned later, that our enemy had taken on their way from Tynree.
I never saw a more happy crew, nor yet one that judging from the doctrine that thrift and sobriety have their just reward deserved it less. I thought of poor Master Gordon somewhere dead or alive in or about Dalness, a very pupil of Christ, and yet with a share of His sorrows, with nowhere to lay his head, but it did not bitter me to my company.
But to wander over the house of Dalness, lit from tol-booth to garret with lowe to see the fires, not green but at their prime with high-banked peat that as yet had not thrown an ash to see so fine a supper waiting in a mansion utterly desolate and its doors open to the wilds, seemed a thing so magical that I felt like taking my feet from the place in a hurry of hurries and fleeing with my comrades from so unco a countryside.
He rose to his feet and paced the floor beside us, strong, but loosened a little at the tongue by the generous wine of Dalness; his mien a blending of defiance against the cheatry of circumstance and a display of old ancient grief. "Heart of the rose, gramachree, bird-song at the lip, star eye and wisdom, yet woman to the core!
I'm putting it to you in the English, Dalness and I cry pardon for making my first gossip with a Highland gentleman in such a tongue but I want you to put my message in as plausible a way as suits you best to the lads and bodachs with you."
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