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Between Loch Dhu and Kilmory, as he crossed towards the marshes, a flock of lapwings rose in alarm, and Kenric knew by their cries that some other than himself was near. He turned his course, thinking that old Elspeth might be there, passing homeward from the peat casting.
And as for the daughters of Angus Dhu, they had been as good as sons even for the farm-work, labouring in the fields, as is the custom for young women in this part of the country, as industriously and as efficiently as men far more so, indeed, than their own brother Evan did; for he was often impatient of the closeness with which his father kept them all at work, and it was this, quite as much as his love of adventure and his wish to see the world, that made him go away at last.
He said the same to his wife, as together they watched her running down the road to meet Shenac Dhu. "What in the world kept you so long?" asked her cousin. "Have you been hearkening to one of John Firinn's stories? Better not tell it again. What made you bide so long?" "Do you know how ill the wife has been?" asked Shenac Bhan.
You won't like to be second-best, after having been first so long." Both Hamish and Shenac Dhu were observing her. She caught their look, and reddened a little. "Do you think so, Shenac Dhu? You surely cannot think so meanly of me, Hamish?" "I think there may be a little truth in what Dan says, but I cannot think meanly of you because of that," said Hamish.
She was quiet, as usual, all the evening and at the time of worship, when Angus Dhu and his wife and Evan and some other neighbours, having heard of the minister's arrival, came in. She was just as usual, they all said, only she did not sing. If she had raised her voice in her brother's favourite psalm, "I to the hills will lift mine eyes,"
"Nobody but you and me to do anything; and what can we do?" continued the lad with a desponding gesture. "And my mother scarcely seems to care to try." "Whisht, Hamish dear; there's no wonder," said Shenac in a low voice. "But about the land. Angus Dhu can never get it surely!" "He has gotten the half of it already. Who is to hinder his getting the rest?" said Hamish.
Beyond this, a little to the right, lay the undulating fields of the settlement, dotted with clumps of trees and clusters of cottages. "Most beautiful!" exclaimed the fur-trader, "but why named Loch Dhu, which, if I mistake not, is the Gaelic for Black Lake?"
"'It is their purpose to re-establish Dahbur Dhu, my grandfather, upon the throne of the moghuls. "'As thou knowest, I am next in succession, and Dahbur Dhu is feeble and decrepit. "'The British are not in sufficient force to withstand a combined attack. "'See, then, Lal Lu, what this means for me; what it means for thee.
Only before I go, mark my words; there you stand, Donnel Dhu, an' I'm tellin' him to be on his guard against you don't put trust, plaise your honor, in either his word or his oath an' if he's bringin' a charge against any one, give it in favor of his enemy, whoever he is.
To enable him to execute these orders, the Chief of Glennaquoich occupied the church-yard of Tranent, a commanding situation, and a convenient place, as Evan Dhu remarked, 'for any gentleman who might have the misfortune to be killed, and chanced to be curious about Christian burial. To check or dislodge this party, the English general detached two guns, escorted by a strong party of cavalry.
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