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"As to that " says I, and lifting her as gently as I might, began to bear her across the beach. And after we had gone thus some way she spoke: "I fear me I am vastly heavy!" "No!" says I, keeping my gaze before me. "Yet you go very slowly." "'Tis that I would not jostle you." "And the sand is ill-going, belike, Martin?" "Most true!" says I, pretending to stumble.
"We can redd our ain frays, lads. Haste and ride, and we'll hae Geordie Musgrave long ere he wins to the Ritterford, Borrowstonemoss is the bit for us." And with a light Scott laugh he was in the saddle. They were now in a land of low hills, which made ill-going. A companion gave Sim the news. Bewcastle and five-score men and the Scots four-score and three.
James's, which might show how royalty loves. On the contrary, "the secret" does not come out; the reader is only tickled, his curiosity excited, and the tale, like an ill-going clock, is wound up without striking. We attempt something like an outline of the plot, although it is just to induce Our reader to turn to the work itself, for we foretel he will be pleased with its details.
What with the soft sand and scattered rocks it was ill-going for my companion, but though she limped painfully she held bravely on nevertheless, being of a mighty resolute mind as this narrative will show.
"O Martin!" says my companion, "O Martin!" and so stood awed by the destruction wrought by this mighty and pitiless tempest. Here was ill-going, but by dint of labour with my hatchet I forced us a way through the wreckage until we suddenly came where we might behold the fall that leapt from the adjacent rocks, all rainbow-hued, to plunge into those deep and troubled waters below.
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