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"Well, my brave young Graheme," the king said, "so you are going to do us another service; but how will you find the boat in this darkness? Even were there no stream you would find it very difficult to strike the exact spot on a dark night like this." "I have provided against that, sir, by placing two marks on the bank. When we start lanterns will be placed on these.
"I have another old friend in my regiment, Hepburn," the colonel said after the first greeting was over "Nigel Graheme, of course you remember him." "Certainly I do," Hepburn exclaimed cordially, "and right glad will I be to see him again; but I thought your regiment was entirely from the north."
Malcolm Graheme was one of the few officers of Munro's regiment who burst his way through the Spanish lines on the top of the Weinberg. He was bleeding from several wounds, but none of them were serious. Nigel was beside him as they began to descend the hill; but scarcely had he gone a step when he fell headlong, struck by a ball from an arquebus.
Thekla's dowry enabled her husband largely to increase his estates. A new and handsome mansion was erected at a short distance from the old castle, and here Malcolm Graheme lived quietly for very many years with his beautiful wife, and saw a numerous progeny rise around them.
"The old pedant James, who wouldn't spend a shilling or raise a dozen men to aid the cause of his own daughter, and who thought more of musty dogmatic treatises than of the glory and credit of the country he ruled over, or the sufferings of his co-religionists in Germany, has left no career open to a lad of spirit." "Well, I will think it over by the morning," Graheme said.
You say nothing of the glory." "Ah! well," Graheme laughed, "we have already had so large share of that, that I for one could do without winning any more just at present. It's a dear commodity to purchase, and neither fills our belly nor our pockets." "For shame, Graheme! for shame!" Munro said laughing.
After going over the castle, whose capture would have tasked his resources and the valour of his troops to the utmost had he been compelled to attack it in the usual way, Gustavus sent for the officers of Ramsay's companies and thanked them individually for their capture. "What! you here, Malcolm Graheme!" Gustavus said as he came in at the rear of Ramsay's officers.
"Well, we will talk of the affair after supper, Graheme, for now that I have got rid of the cold I begin to perceive that I am well nigh famished." As the officer was speaking, the servitors were laying the table, and supper was soon brought in.
With glory and treasure and good wine to be won we will outdo ourselves tomorrow; and you may be sure that the brunt of the affair will fall upon the Scots." "Well, there is one satisfaction," said Nigel Graheme who after Leipzig had been promoted to the rank of major "if we get the lion's share of the fighting, we shall have the lion's share of the plunder and wine." "For shame, Graheme!
The boy will see life and service, he will have opportunities of distinguishing himself under the eye of the most chivalrous king in Europe, he will have entered a noble profession, and have a fair chance of bettering his fortune, all of which is a thousand times better than settling down here in this corner of Scotland." "I must think it over," Graheme said; "it is a serious step to take.
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