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Fergus in the eighth century became apostle of Forfar, Buchan, and Caithness. DISTANT ISLANDS: But Irish monks were mariners as well as apostles. Their hide-covered currachs were often launched in the hope of discovering solitudes in the ocean. Adamnan records that Baitan set out with others in search of a desert in the sea. St. Cormac sought a similar retreat and arrived at the Orkneys. St.
Of Fergus, the bold, the chivalrous, the free-minded, the lofty chieftain of a tribe devoted to him?
I feel shaken, and it is possible that riding may set my wound bleeding again." Having drunk a goblet of wine, Fergus went down and mounted his horse. As he did so, he said to one of the men: "Take a lantern, and go down to the spot where the road hither turns off from the main road. A surgeon will be here in half an hour, or perhaps in twenty minutes.
"Father, may I? I've got my eighteenpence," asked the boy, turning up his animated face, while Fergus, with an air of patronage, vouched for the honesty of Jacob Green, and undertook to bring his charge back in time for luncheon. Lancelot Underwood had entirely got over that sense of being in a false position which had once rendered society distasteful to him.
When, on the march to Derby, Fergus, being questioned concerning his quarrel with Waverley, alleged as the cause that Edward was desirous of retracting the suit he had made to his sister, the Chevalier plainly told him that he had himself observed Miss Mac-Ivor's behaviour to Waverley, and that he was convinced Fergus was under the influence of a mistake in judging of Waverley's conduct, who, he had every reason to believe, was engaged to Miss Bradwardine.
The Kammerjunker turned the name of Fergus to Gusseman, and Jacoba asserted that it was a dog's name. "Now you shall see my little bumpkin!" said he, and brought in a square-built child, who with fat, red cheeks, and round arms, stared around him. "That is a strong fellow! Here is something to take hold of! Tralla-ralla-ralla!" And he danced him round the room.
Davenant might have yielded, had it not been for his wife's entreaties. Even old Mrs. Davenant, intensely loyal as she was to the cause of James, sided with her daughter in law. "Of course, Fergus, you will do your duty to the king. It would indeed be a shame for a Davenant to hold back; but, at Walter's age there can be no occasion for him, as yet, to take a commission.
He sent to order Donald Bean to attend him; but that cautious freebooter, who well understood the value of a separate command, instead of joining, sent various apologies which the pressure of the times compelled Fergus to admit as current, though not without the internal resolution of being revenged on him for his procrastination, time and place convenient.
'He has seen much service, answered Fergus, 'and one is sometimes astonished to find how much nonsense and reason are mingled in his composition, I wonder what can be troubling his mind probably something about Rose. Hark! the English are setting their watch. The roll of the drum and shrill accompaniment of the fifes swelled up the hill-died away resumed its thunder and was at length hushed.
'An angel, with the dowry of an empire, repeated Fergus, in a tone of bitter irony, 'is not very likely to be pressed upon a shire squire. But sir, changing his tone, 'if Flora Mac-Ivor have not the dowry of an empire, she is my sister; and that is sufficient at least to secure her against being treated with anything approaching to levity.
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