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"Who, and what is he?" demanded Rachel, as she knelt before her victim, fixing those great prominent eyes, so like those of Red Riding Hood's grandmother, that Ermine involuntarily gave a backward impulse to her wheeled chair, as she answered the readiest thing that occurred to her, "He is brother to Lord Keith of Gowan-brae." "Oh," said Rachel, kneeling on meditatively, "that accounts for it.
It is the brightness of the soul, and the glorious quality which proves our celestial descent. Our other feelings are common to a' creatures, but the feeling of charity is divine. It's the only thing in which man partakes of the nature of God." Discoursing in this scriptural manner, we reached the Gowan-brae. My heart beat high with gladness.
"But do not you call yourself Scotch?" said Ermine, who had for years thought it glorious to do so. "My great grandfather came from Gowan-brae," said Alick, "but our branch of the family has lived and died in the th Highlanders for so many generations that we don't know what a home is out of it. Our birthplaces yes, and our graves are in all parts of the world." "Were you ever in Scotland?"
While our men continued in view Ebenezer Muir said nothing; but as soon as they had disappeared behind the brow of the Gowan-brae, he spoke to the multitude in a gentle and paternal manner, and bade them come with him into the neighbouring field, and join him in prayer; after which he hoped they would see the wisdom of returning to their homes.
As my father led them to their station on the right flank of Nahum Chapelrig's array, the crowd of onlookers fell back, and stood in silence as they passed by. Scarcely had they halted, when there was a rushing among the onlookers, and presently the townsmen, with Hepburn on horseback, were seen coming over the brow of the Gowan-brae.
Nor indeed did I think at the time, that the foretaste of what was ordained so speedily to come to a head was at all so lively in his spirit, or that of my son, as it was in mine, till, in passing over the top of the Gowan-brae, he looked round on the lands of Quharist, and said,
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