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Probably Evan was already offended, or he held to Jack, as a comrade should, or else it was that Tailordom and the pride of his accepted humiliation bellowed in his ears, every fresh minute: 'Nothing assume! I incline to think that the more ale he drank the fiercer rebel he grew against conventional ideas of rank, and those class-barriers which we scorn so vehemently when we find ourselves kicking at them.
I 'll never forgive her. Deceiving me all these months! Let nobody ever name her name to me again; she's dead to me for evermore." "No, no," said old Nathan, sorrowfully; "don't thee harden thy heart against her, Miss Priscilla. She 's been deceived as well as us, poor, young, ignorant lass! She does n't know what Evan is yet: a handsome young raskill, as all the girls make much of.
Mel's deep voice. Evan faced her: 'My dear mother, you are very unjust and inconsiderate. I have been working and doing my best. I promise what do the debts amount to? 'Something like L5000 in all, Van. 'Very well. Youth is not alarmed by the sound of big sums. 'Very well I will pay it. Evan looked as proud as if he had just clapped down the full amount on the table.
'Out, no! it's past the skill of man to tell where he's to be found at a' times; there's not a dern nook, or cove, or corri, in the whole country, that he's not acquainted with. 'And do others beside your master shelter him? 'My master? 'No great boon, I should think, Evan, when both seem to be very plenty. 'Ah! but ye dinna see through it.
'You do me great honour, my lord; but I have told you I cannot, said Evan, curbing his horse. At that moment Rose came among them. Evan raised his hat, as did Laxley. Harry, a little behind the others, performed a laborious mock salute, and then ordered her back to the house. A quick altercation ensued; the end being that Harry managed to give his sister the context of the previous conversation.
"Of course you can't; and you mustn't. But the true reformer doesn't drop things and run away. You must stay in and fight fight harder than you ever have before, Evan. If you can't do it for the sake of the larger right, then you must do it for your own sake. Can't you see the open door before you?" "I can see and hear and feel when the door is slammed in my face," was the qualifying rejoinder.
With his hand on the door, which he kept closed, he said, in a businesslike way, 'You know, Van, as for me, I should be very willing only too happy to go down and pay all the respect I could. He became confused, and shot his head from side to side, looking anywhere but at Evan.
'I'se warrant he would go to his cousin's at Rannoch. 'Well, but if they followed him to Rannoch? 'That, quoth Evan, 'is beyond all belief; and, indeed, to tell you the truth, there durst not a Lowlander in all Scotland follow the fray a gun-shot beyond Bally-Brough, unless he had the help of the Sidier Dhu. 'Whom do you call so?
It was Evan; but before I met him halfway on the stairs, he called up: "I telephoned home an hour ago, and they are all well. The storm held over last night there. Father says it was the most showy snow they have had for years, and he was delayed in getting his letter to the post." "Is that all?" I asked, as I got down far enough to rest my hands on his shoulders.
Load my pistols, Callum, and bring them hither instantly instantly! Callum, whom nothing ever startled, dismayed, or disconcerted, obeyed very coolly. Evan Dhu, upon whose brow the suspicion that his Chief had been insulted called up a corresponding storm, swelled in sullen silence, awaiting to learn where or upon whom vengeance was to descend.
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