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They whisper yonder that there's a hangman in the train, wi' ropes, to hang the ring-leaders on their castle buttresses; and Henderland is to be their first victim. O my Leddie! dispatch, quick as thae flashes o' levin, a messenger to the master, and tell him to flee to England, till the king's wrath has blawn owre.
In her flight the consequence of the spur of frenzy, as much as of a wish to lessen pain which was insufferable she came to the Henderland Linn, a mountain stream, that falls rolling down the heights with a loud noise.
Do you love me, Parys? say if you have any love for your Marjory say if your affection is changed towards those dear pledges of our happiness, who, enjoying the sports of their age, are unconscious that their father is meditating that which may, ere the morn's sun gild those woods, render them fatherless, and bring sorrow o'er the house of Henderland?
I told him not at all; that I had seen much to admire among the Highlanders; and, if he came to that, Mr. Campbell himself was a Highlander. "Ay," said he, "that's true. It's a fine blood." "And what is the King's agent about?" I asked. "Colin Campbell?" says Henderland. "Putting his head in a bees' byke!" "He is to turn the tenants out by force, I hear?" said I.
Campbell or even Mr. Henderland would think of me if they should ever learn my folly and presumption: these were the doubts that now began to come in on me stronger than ever. As I was so sitting and thinking, a sound of men and horses came to me through the wood; and presently after, at the turning of the road, I saw four travellers come into view.
Henderland had their very speech upon his tongue. And though I was a good deal puffed up with my adventures, and with having come off, as the saying is, with flying colours; yet he soon had me on my knees beside a simple, poor old man, and both proud and glad to be there.
"Parys Cockburn of Henderland," cried James, "hath, by a jury of our nobles, been deemed worthy to die the death of a thief, and a rebel against our authority. Let him be forthwith hanged till he be dead, on the buttress of his own tower, as an example to evil doers in time to come." A quick movement of simultaneous, and, in many cases, intuitive agitation, followed this order.
Just as I had drawn in my chair, fitted a new "Bramah" on the stick, and was preparing to feague it away, I had a call from the son of an old friend, Mr. Waldie of Henderland. As he left me, enter young Whytbank and Mr. Auriol Hay of the Lyon Office, and we had a long armorial chat together, which lasted for some time then the library was to be looked at, etc.
"The fearless rogue will hang himself, and realize the prophecy of Merlin the wild, regarding our house 'On Cockburn's elm, on Henderland lee, A Cockburn laird shall hangit be." "God forfend!" ejaculated Marjory. "Hector, undo that cord, and descend. My ears ring with old Lailoken's prophetic rhyme, when I look on that swing. I shall have it removed."
Henderland must be well liked in the countryside, for I observed many of them to bring out their mulls and share a pinch of snuff with him.
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