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And now, with each day that passed, the sun rose higher in the sky; it grew warmer; the snow softened underfoot, and in the air was the tremulous and growing throb of spring. With these things came the old yearning to Baree; the heart-thrilling call of the lonely graves back on the Gray Loon, of the burned cabin, the abandoned tepee beyond the pool and of Nepeese.
Above the roll and rattle of the drums they caught those high, heart-thrilling sounds which for nearly two hundred years have been heard on every famous British battlefield, and which have ever led Scotland's sons down the path of blood and death to imperishable glory. A young Ninetieth officer, intent on seeing that the way was kept clear for the soldiers, came striding out of the armoury.
His hand, fair, soft, and delicate as a woman's, that hand, with its gentle, warm, heart-thrilling pressure, was nevertheless the hand of Procrustes; and though he covered the iron bed with the flowers of love, the spirit sometimes writhed under the coercion it endured. "You are not well," said Dr. Harlowe, as we met him during an evening walk.
Miss Gordon had never seen the loveliness nor felt the lure of this new land a garden-land though it was, of winding flower-fringed roads, of cool, fairy-dells, and hilltops with heart-thrilling glimpses of lake and forest and stream. Her harp was always hanging on the willows of this Canadian Babylon in mourning for the streets of Edinburgh.
From the commencement she took part in the execution of this magnificent composition eagerly and with deep feeling, and when the closing bars began and the magic of her singing developed all its heart-thrilling power, the watchful lady in waiting perceived that his Majesty forgot the food and hung on Barbara's lips as though spellbound. This was something unprecedented.
This night, it was observed, he no longer played that most heart-breaking of all Scottish laments, "Lochaber No More." He had passed up to the no less heart-thrilling, but less heartbreaking, "Macrimmon's Lament." In a pause in Macpherson's wailing notes there floated down over the Glen the sound of the pipes up at the big House. "Bless my soul! whisht, man!" cried Betsy Macpherson to her spouse.
When I read in his countenance deep sorrow, when I see his dying glory sink exhausted into the grave, as he inhales new and heart-thrilling delight from his approaching union with his beloved, and he casts a look on the cold earth and the tall grass which is so soon to cover him, and then exclaims, "The traveller will come, he will come who has seen my beauty, and he will ask, 'Where is the bard, where is the illustrious son of Fingal? He will walk over my tomb, and will seek me in vain!"
The prisoner was again required to plead to the charge, and she again replied, "Not Guilty," in the same heart-thrilling tone as before.
"Listen!" murmured Lois, close at my elbow. "There! It comes again! Do you not hear it, Euan! That low, long, sustained and heart-thrilling undertone droning in the air through all this tumult!" And presently I heard the sound the wondrous melancholy, yet seductive music of our conch-horn. Its magic call set my every pulse a-throbbing.
The stranger seemed to understand the cause of hesitation, for she said in that heart-thrilling voice which was peculiarly her own "Time and misfortune have changed me much, Margaret that every mirror tells me yet methinks, Margaret Stanley might still have known Charlotte de la Tremouille."
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