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Thus were Wallace and Hislop added to the long list of the victims of circumstantial evidence. From about the close of the seventeenth until well on in the nineteenth century, smuggling was carried on to a large extent in the Border counties of England and Scotland, not only as regards the evasion of customs duties on imported articles, but as well in the form of illicit distillation.
When we wanted a little play on the terrace or a sweetcake from the town, we tried at first to get Kate to ask for us. But afterwards she would not. And she grew determined to leave the Castle of Dinant as soon as might be, making her escape and taking us with her. Her Boreland lad, Tam Hislop, had told her all about the estates and the great house standing empty.
This was no other than Henney Hislop herself, who, having been alarmed at the long absence of her "mother," as she called her, and of course believed her to be, was so delighted to find her, that she sobbed out her joy in such an artless way, that even the writer owned it was interesting to behold.
"Then what is it?" was the question. "He's dead," replied Henney. "Who is dead?" again asked Mrs. Hislop. "The strange man," replied the girl. And a reply, too, which brought the busy worker to a pause in her work, for she understood who the he was, and the information went direct through the ear to the heart; but Henney, supposing that she was not understood, added
They were R. B. Stanton, Langdon Gibson, Harry McDonald, and Elmer Kane, in boat No. 1, called the Bonnie Jean, John Hislop F. A. Nims, Reginald Travers, and W. H. Edwards in boat No. 2, called the Lillie; and A. B. Twining, H. G. Ballard, L. G. Brown, and James Hogue, the cook, in the Marie, boat No. 3. Christmas dinner was eaten at Lee's Ferry, with wild flowers picked that day for decoration.
Your father was a fine man, my dear. Yes, indeed. We knew him well as a student. He preached one summer in where was that, Annabel? Alaska?" "Muskoka, Mother." "Oh, yes, Muskoka, and the Rev. Walter Hislop, your father, was there as a student." "Murray, you mean, Mother." "Don't interrupt me, Annabel. Your uncle preached there two summers, my dear, and I thought my daughter Annabel and he "
Napier's service about ten years ago, and I never heard mair o' him." "Nor I either," said Mrs. Hislop. "Well, we must search for him," added Mr. White; "for that man alone, so far as I can see, is he who will unravel this strange business." And thus the day's work finished. The writer parted for Mill's Court, and Mrs.
"It is now," she began, in a low mysterious voice, "just sixteen years come June, and if ye want the day, it will be the 15th, and if ye want the hour, we may say eleven o'clock at night, when I was making ready for my bed, I heard a knock at my door, and the words of a woman, 'Oh, Mrs. Hislop, Mrs. Hislop! So I ran and opened the door; and wha think ye I saw but Jean Graham, Mr.
Two cases yet remain of the five cited by Macaulay. With one of these the case of the three men shot near Glasgow for refusing to pray for the King no writer has ever pretended to implicate Claverhouse personally; but with the other he is directly concerned. Andrew Hislop was the son of a poor widow in whose house a proscribed Covenanter had lately died.
Hislop, said the man, as he turned to me, 'you're to take this child and bring it up as your own, or anybody else's you like, except Mr. Napier's, and you're never to say when or how you got it, for it's a banned creature, with the curse upon it of a malison for the sins of him who begot it and of her who bore it. Swear to it; and he held up his hand.
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