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The intense anxiety which was smothered in every one of these words, Wych Hazel long remembered. They saw, as he spoke, they could see Rollo at the horses' heads, going from one to the other; they saw him dimly through the smoke; they caught the light of something white in his hand. Mr. Falkirk had guessed right. Then they saw Rollo throw himself postillion-wise upon one of the leaders.
Kingsland, as that gentleman came out rather hastily to see if his charge might be there, too, 'you are not surely agoing on alone? Back went Mr. Falkirk into the house again to look for his missing ward, who had plainly been foraging.
But it is difficult to say what the effect might have been had either the battle of Preston or Falkirk been fought and won during the advance into England.
'You have always known how, sir, she answered with a grateful flash of her brown eyes. 'When I had only a little Wych Hazel to take care of, and the care depended on myself, Mr. Falkirk said, with just an indication of a sigh stifled somewhere. 'Now I can't get along without your coöperation, my dear. 'Am I so much harder to manage than of old, sir? That speaks ill for me.
This castle became at that time the actual scene of a romantic escape made by John Home, the author of Douglas, and some other prisoners, who, having been taken at the battle of Falkirk, were confined there by the insurgents.
Four months later, at Falkirk, a portion of another English army was thrown into a panic by the sight of "the wild petticoat-men," and made capital time in getting out of their way. Two regiments of cavalry rushed right over a body of infantry lying on the ground, bellowing, as they galloped, "Dear brethren, we shall all be massacred this day!" They did their best to make their prediction true.
The command of the English army in the north was handed by the duke to General Hawley, a man after his own heart, violent in temper, brutal and cruel in conduct. He collected at Edinburgh an army of nearly the same strength as that of Prince Charles, and with these he matched out as far as Falkirk to raise the siege of Stirling, and, as he confidently boasted, to drive the rebels before him.
Lasalle's carriage grated on the gravel sweep, Mr. Falkirk sat down to the table and the newspaper, and as Wych Hazel opened the door and walked in, Mr. Falkirk looked up sedately. Then his face unbent, a very little, but he waited for her to speak. 'Good evening, my dear Mr. Falkirk! Mr. Falkirk was not morose, but he made little answer beyond a smile.
Falkirk had not had a ride of four miles; took his breakfast like a man who had; and only towards the close of breakfast suddenly turned to his hostess and asked, 'How does Jeannie Deans behave? Apparently Hazel's thoughts had not been held fast by the politics under discussion, for she had gone into a deep grave meditation. 'Jeannie Deans? she said, with her face flushing all up again.
Falkirk had any roughness in his manner or in his composition, he had also and certainly a very gentle side of it for his ward. He looked at her again and dropped the subject. But he had got another. He waited a little before bringing it up. 'Another thing I heard confused my ideas, Miss Hazel.
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