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"And what concern have you with her?" replied the marauder. "That," retorted Earnscliff, "you, who are detaining her by force, have no right to enquire." "Aweel, I think I can gie a guess," said the robber.
This took away from the act which had been perpetrated the appearance of private animosity, or love of plunder; and Earnscliff was now disposed to regard it as a symptom of civil war. The young gentleman greeted Hobbie with the most sincere sympathy, and informed him of the news he had received.
O, bairns, he's never permitted but in an ill time, sae mind ilka ane o' ye to draw to Him that can help in the day of trouble." Earnscliff now interposed, and expressed his firm conviction that the person they had seen was some poor maniac, and had no commission from the invisible world to announce either war or evil.
The efforts of the party were totally unsuccessful, probably because Ellieslaw directed the pursuit to proceed in the direction of Earnscliff Tower, under the supposition that the owner would prove to be the author of the violence, so that they followed a direction diametrically opposite to that in which the ruffians had actually proceeded.
Where he gets the gear to do't nane can say; he lives high, and far abune his rents here; however, he pays his way Sae, if there's ony out-break in the country, he's likely to break out wi' the first and weel does he mind the auld quarrels between ye, I'm surmizing he'll be for a touch at the auld tower at Earnscliff."
"My blood be on my own head, if I perish here," said the figure; and, observing Earnscliff meditating to lay hold on him, he added, "And your blood be upon yours, if you touch but the skirt of my garments, to infect me with the taint of mortality!"
But Willie's lowland bred, poor fallow, and soon frighted for himsell And, for the worricows, were we to meet ane on this very bit " "As is not unlikely," said young Earnscliff, "for there stands your old witch, Hobbie."
"Troth did I, hinny," replied the good-natured lady, "just at the instant; it's sae natural to think on ane's blude relations before themsells; But there's young Earnscliff." "He has ower little o' his ain; and siccan a name to keep up, it wad be a shame," said Hobbie, "to burden him wi' our distress.
Earnscliff now requested the assistance of a few of the party to convey Miss Vere to her father's castle of Ellieslaw, to which she was peremptory in desiring to be conducted. This was readily granted; and five or six young men agreed to attend him as an escort. Hobbie was not of the number.
Can you not guess? Something about an eagle and a rock it does not begin with eagle in English, but something very like it in Scotch." "You cannot mean young Earnscliff, Lucy?" said Miss Vere, blushing deeply. "And whom else should I mean," said Lucy. "Jaffiers and Pierres are very scarce in this country, I take it, though one could find Renaults and Bedamars enow."
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