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But I make a proposal: Ferquhard Day was the youngest of your band, Eachin MacIan is the youngest of ours; we will set him aside in place of the man who has fled from the combat." "A most unjust and unequal proposal," exclaimed Toshach Beg, the second, as he might be termed, of MacGillie Chattanach.
An unusual silence followed, as if something extraordinary was expected, when Eachin arose with a bold and manly, yet modest, grace, and ascended the vacant seat or throne, saying with dignity and firmness: "This seat and my father's inheritance I claim as my right so prosper me God and St. Barr!" "How will you rule your father's children?" said an old man, the uncle of the deceased.
That he was under the influence of enchantment was a solution which superstition had suggested, and he now anxiously, but in a whisper, demanded of Hector: "Does the spell now darken thy spirit, Eachin?" "Yes, wretch that I am," answered the unhappy youth; "and yonder stands the fell enchanter!" "What!" exclaimed Torquil, "and you wear harness of his making?
To speak plain, what would Catharine have thought of me in the ceremonial?" "We approach the shallows now," thought Simon Glover, "and without nice pilotage we drive right on shore." "Most women like show, Eachin; but I think my daughter Catharine be an exception.
Hence Torquil of the Oak argued that the presence of the fated person was necessary to ensure the victory. 'So much I am possessed of this, said the forester, 'that, unless Eachin fight in his place in the ranks of the Clan Quhele, neither I, his foster father, nor any of my eight sons will lift a weapon in the quarrel.
"How!" said Simon, greatly alarmed, "is the captain of the Clan Quhele dead?" "The captain of the Clan Quhele never dies," answered the Booshalloch; "but Gilchrist MacIan died twenty hours since, and his son, Eachin MacIan, is now captain." "What, Eachin that is Conachar my apprentice?" "As little of that subject as you list, brother Simon," said the herdsman.
"There is no fear of that, Eachin," said Simon, in that vague way in which lukewarm comforters endeavour to turn the reflections of their friends from the consideration of inevitable danger. "There is fear, and there is peril of utter ruin," answered Eachin, "and there is positive certainty of great loss. I marvel my father consented to this wily proposal of Albany.
"And did his exhortation add to your fear or your resolution?" said Eachin, who seemed very attentive. "To my resolution," answered Simon; "for I think nothing can make a man so bold to face one danger at some distance in his front as the knowledge of another close behind him, to push him forward.
He affirmed that he had performed a magical ceremony, termed tine egan, by which he evoked a fiend, from whom he extorted a confession that Conachar, now called Eachin, or Hector, MacIan, was the only man in the approaching combat between the two hostile clans who should come off without blood or blemish.
"Conachar!" said Catharine, as he advanced, apparently without seeing what was before him, as hares are said to do when severely pressed by the greyhounds. But he stopped short when he heard his own name. "Conachar," said Catharine, "or rather Eachin MacIan, what means all this? Have the Clan Quhele sustained a defeat?"
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