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"Oh, I'm no' that wee!" said Mungo. "If ye wad jist bide cool " "'Cool' quo' he! Man! I'm up to the neck in fire. Where is she?" "Whaur ony decent lass should be at this 'oor o' the nicht in her naked bed." "Say that again, you foul-mouthed dog o' Fife, and I'll gralloch you like a deer!" cried the Chamberlain, his face tingling.
M'Iver was more put about at her friendliness than at her ferocity, as he shook his plaiding to order and fell back from her worship. "I've seldom seen a more wicked cat," said he; "go home, grandam, and leave us to our business. If they find you in Lochaber they will gralloch you like a Yule hind."
He had figured it out in every possible way. But there seemed little chance to swim that icy water none at all with that man in the boat yonder, and detection always imminent if they left the Pulpit. McKay shook his head slightly: "He'd row us down and gralloch us like swimming deer." "But if one goes alone?" "Oh, Yellow-hair! Yellow-hair! If you only could!" "I can." "Swim it?" "Yes."
And the shrill, fierce Highland cry, "Gralloch him!" echoed the infamous catch, till the night air rang faintly in the starlight. "Cruachan!" shouted Captain Campbell; "the wild myrtle to clan Campbell, the heather to the McDonalds! An't Arm, chlanna!" And a great shout answered him: "The army! Sons of the army!"
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