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Updated: June 13, 2025
As the Highland army rushed into Edinburgh, Miss Nairne, like other ladies who approved of their cause, stood waving her handkerchief from a balcony, when a ball from a Highlander's musket, which was discharged by accident, grazed her forehead. 'Thank God, said she, the instant she recovered,'that the accident happened to me, whose principles are known.
And then to their ears came a roar, as of the routing of some mighty bull of Bashan. Glancing back quickly, their astonished eyes saw Rory Dhu Mhor standing rigidly erect and stiff, an expression of blank wonder on his hairy face, and the point of Ringan's broadsword appearing out between the Highlander's shoulders.
"I went to Edinburgh," said a Highland elder, "and was there a Sabbath. It was an awfu' sight! There, on the Sabbath-day, you would see people walking along the street, smiling AS IF THEY WERE PERFECTLY HAPPY!" There was the gravamen of the poor Highlander's charge. To think of people being or looking happy on the Lord's day!
"Say no more about it," answered Gordon. "I have seen the wolf so often at the Highlander's heart that I need not be wondering to find him snarling and clawing now. And still from a gentleman and a person of travel " "Say away, sir," said M'Iver, bitterly; "you have the whole plea with you this time, and I'm a rogue of the blackest I can say no more than I'm sorry for a most dirty action."
If you had been brought up to associate the sound of the pipes with every memorable thing with the sadness of a funeral, and the welcome of friends come to see you, and the pride of going away to war then you would understand why 'Lord Lovat's Lament, or the 'Farewell to Gibraltar, or the 'Heights of Alma' why these bring the tears to a Highlander's eyes.
Therefore they would have heard naught, even if Attusah had not precluded further efforts of his captive to communicate with his comrades by swiftly fashioning a gag out of the Highlander's bonnet and gloves. Perhaps never was a brave man more dismayed and daunted. Not death alone, but fire and torture menaced him.
Osbaldistone, to be hunted like an otter, or a sealgh, or a salmon upon the shallows, and that by my very friends and neighbours; and to have as many sword-cuts made, and pistols flashed at me, as I had this day in the ford of Avondow, would try a saint's temper, much more a Highlander's, who are not famous for that gude gift, as ye may hae heard, Mr. Osbaldistone.
"You conducted your duello in odd style under Lums-den, surely," said I, "if you fought with powder and ball instead of steel, which is more of a Highlander's weapon to my way of thinking. All our affairs in the Reay battalion were with claymore sometimes with targe, sometimes wanting." "It was less a trial of valour than a wager about which had the better skill with the musket.
Arrival of Mr Barlow Story of Polemo Tommy's repentance Story of Sophron and Tigranes Tommy as an Arabian Horseman His Mishap Tommy's intrepidity The Poor Highlander's story Tommy's Sorrow for his conduct to Harry Conclusion of the Story of Sophron and Tigranes Tommy's resolution to study nothing but "reason and philosophy" Visits Harry and begs his forgiveness The Grateful Black's Story Tommy takes up his abode at Farmer Sandford's The Grateful Black's account of himself Mr Merton's visit to the Farm The unexpected present Conclusion.
He dropped several parcels in the vain attempt to hold them and perform the usual frictional movement notwithstanding; so he was compelled instead to go through a kind of solemn pace, which got more and more rapid as the parcels decreased in number, till it became at last, in its wild movements, something like a Highlander's sword-dance.
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