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Updated: June 18, 2025
"I want to speak to ye, Ma'colm MacPhail," she said, in a tone whose very stillness revealed a depth of trouble. "I doobt I canna hearken to ye richt the noo," said Malcolm. "But bide a wee." He swung himself from Kelpie's back, and, hanging hard on the bit with one hand, searched with the other in the pocket of his coat, saying, as he did so "Sugar, Kelpie! sugar!"
And we have never read over the sorrowful conclusion of the "Bride of Lammermoor" without believing that the young master of Ravenswood, on that sombre November morning, sunk the sooner and the more fatally in the quicksands of the Kelpie's Flow, from the weight of the leaden heart he carried in his bosom.
With a quivering voice, and a cheek pale with apprehension, Caleb faltered out the following lines: "When the last Laird of Ravenswood to Ravenswood shall ride, And woo a dead maiden to be his bride, He shall stable his steed in the Kelpie's flow, And his name shall be lost for evermoe!"
"Well, Caleb," said the Master, "I give you the best possible credit for your good advice on this occasion; but as I do not go to Ravenswood to seek a bride, dead or alive, I hope I shall choose a better stable for my horse than the Kelpie's quicksand, and especially as I have always had a particular dread of it since the patrol of dragoons were lost there ten years since.
'The kelpie's hide is thicker than three bull-hides, and none of your weapons would do more than mark it. 'What am I to do then, Angus, for kill him I will somehow? 'I'll tell you what to do; but it needs a brave man to do that. 'And do you think I'm not brave enough for that, Angus? 'I know one thing you are not brave enough for. 'And what's that? said Allister, and his face grew red, only he did not want to anger Nelly's father.
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