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I call on all who hear me to bear witness to the words this ruffian has spoken. Remember how the Lord James drowned such as you by scores in the black pool at Jeddart.-To him and to the Primate will I complain." The soldier shifted the position of his lance, and brought it down to a level with the monk's body. Dame Glendinning began to shriek for assistance. "Tibb Tacket! Martin! where be ye all?
But so many opportunities, nay so many calls there were for him, who in those days spoke big, to make good his words by his actions, that Simon Glendinning was soon under the necessity of marching with the men of the Halidome, as it was called, of St. Mary's, in that disastrous campaign which was concluded by the battle of Pinkie.
And yet his conscience instantly told him that he ought to accept, with grateful deference, the offer which was made him by the husband of his kind protectress; and his prudence, however slender, could not but admit he should enter the world under very different auspices as a retainer of Sir Halbert Glendinning, so famed for wisdom, courage, and influence, from those under which he might partake the wanderings, and become an agent in the visionary schemes, for such they appeared to him, of Magdalen, his relative.
Glendinning, whose recent misfortune had rendered him unusually cruel, at once knocked the boy down and kicked him; then lifting him by the collar and thrusting him violently into the chair, repeated the question, but received no answer. Changing his tactics he tried to cajole him and offered him money, but with similar want of success. "Hand me your sword-belt," cried the sergeant to a comrade.
The motherly, but coarse kindness of Dame Glendinning, and the doating fondness of her old domestic, seemed now the only kind feeling of which she formed the object; and she could not but reflect how little these were to be compared with the devoted attachment of a high-souled youth, whom the least glance of her eye could command, as the high-mettled steed is governed by the bridle of the rider.
"For which condescension," said Halbert, "I have to thank the token which I presented to you." The knight changed colour, and grinded his teeth with rage "Draw your weapon!" said he to Glendinning. "Not in this spot," answered the youth; "we should be liable to interruption Follow me, and I will bring you to a place where we shall encounter no such risk."
"Give me to redeem my honour," said Halbert Glendinning "give me to retort on my proud rival the insults he has thrown on me, and let the rest fare as it will. If I cannot revenge my wrong, I shall sleep quiet, and know nought of my disgrace." The phantom failed not to reply, "When Piercie Shafton boasteth high, Let this token meet his eye.
"No more vestige of the earth having been removed than if the turf had grown there since the days of Adam," replied Edward Glendinning. "It is true," he added, "that the adjacent grass was trampled and bloody." "These are delusions of the Enemy," said the Sub-Prior, crossing himself. "Christian men may no longer doubt of it."
Glendinning took frequently when he had to preach at both places on the same Sabbath. It is still called the Minister's Road. "Yet if the earl had believed it he would have sent some one into Thrums for particulars," I said, grasping at such comfort as I could make. "He does believe it," she answered. "He told me of it himself."
Glendinning had taken Trotty on her lap, and given the child her long gold chains to play with. Polly thought her the most charming creature in the world. She had a slender waist, and an abundant light brown chignon, and cheeks of a beautiful pink, in which two fascinating dimples came and went. The feather from her riding-hat lay on her neck.
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