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He lit the candles, and made the necessary preparations for his journey; for he had some message to leave at Kinloch, at the head of Loch Scridain, and he was going to ride round that way. By and by the morning light had increased so much that he blew out the candles. No sooner had he done this than his eye caught sight of something outside that startled him.
"Now, mother, what's the use? You are only trying to read me a moral lecture, because I gave Lucy a harmless smack." "Lucy Ransom!" repeated Mrs. Kinloch, with ineffable scorn. "Lucy Ransom! I hope my son isn't low enough to dally with a housemaid, a scullion! If I had seen such a spectacle, I should have kept my mouth shut for shame.
Kinloch, he found the yard filled with the British light horse! These dreams are droll things; but they sometimes come so well attested, that there is no doubting them. He who made our frame, can certainly speak to us as well asleep as awake; and the wise will feel the importance of making a friend of Him, who can cause an airy dream to defend us as effectually as a legion of angels.
Kinloch forgot also, at least for that day, because something occurred which turned her thoughts for the time in quite a different direction. The ponies were brought out for Hugh and Mildred to take their customary canter. The young heiress, for whom so much time and pains were spent, looked ill; the delicate flush had vanished from her cheek; she seemed languid, and cheerful only by effort.
The companions of his voyage were the old Marquis of Tullibardine, who had been deprived of his dukedom of Athol in the '15; the Prince's tutor and cousin, Sir Thomas Sheridan, a rather injudicious Irishman; two other Irishmen in the French and Spanish services; Kelly, a young English divine; and Æneas Macdonald, a banker in Paris, and younger brother of the chieftain Macdonald of Kinloch Moidart, a prudent young man, who saw himself involved in the Prince's cause very much against his will and better judgment.
Don't you know, my dear Madam, how it confuses one to be sharply interrogated?" "It would be something novel to see you confused, Squire Clamp." "Pray, don't banter, Mrs. Kinloch. I hoped to find you in a more complaisant humor. There are topics which cannot be discussed with the square precision of legal rules, thoughts that require sympathy before they can be expressed."
The Head of the House eyed him sharply. "Kinloch?" No answer. "Kinloch?" Scaife answered dryly: "Kinloch's portmanteau has come." Then Dumbleton said in his smooth, bland voice, "His lordship is in the drawing-room with Mr. Rutford." The boys exchanged knowing glances. Scaife looked contemptuous. The next moment the last name had been called, and the boys scurried into the passages.
It is remarkable that Hackston, as well as a shepherd who was also present, but passive, on the occasion, were the only two of the party of assassins who suffered death by the hands of the executioner. On Hackston refusing the command, it was by universal suffrage conferred on John Balfour of Kinloch, called Burley, who was Hackston's brother-in-law.
Mrs. Kinloch encouraged her son to persevere; she was sure he had not been skilful. "Mildred," she said, "was not to be won with as little trouble as a silly, low-bred girl, like like Lucy, for instance." "What the deuse are you always bringing up Lucy to me for?" said the dutiful son. "Don't speak so!" "Confound it! I must.
It might have been only the scorn of outraged virtue. "Hugh," said Mrs. Kinloch, "come into the house a moment. I want to speak with you." The young man looked up rather astonished, but he could not read his mother's placid face.
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