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He flew at his clothes to dress himself, but his poor old hands trembled with rage, fear, drink, and eagerness. The laird did his best to help him, but he seemed nowise recognizant. "I will get you some hot water, my lord," he said at length, and was moving towards the door. "No, you! everybody!" shrieked the old man. "If you go out of that door, I will throw myself out of this window."

The Court was strongly in his favour, and he was sent back to his family and property without anything more severe than commiseration; but that could never reach his deep sore. How was this gentle, nervous, humorous Laird to look out upon the world, from which he had sent the soul of a companion who had never even harmed him?

Jeanie, who had immediately resigned her temporary occupation, and followed the yelling damsel into the courtyard, in order to undeceive and appease her, was there met by Mrs. Janet Balchristie, the favourite sultana of the last Laird, as scandal went the housekeeper of the present.

Alec had chosen this particular night, thinking, under cover of the mist, to escape the vigilance of the keepers, who had more than once threatened to take him before the laird for trespassing.

"And narrowly escaped the consequences, you would say?" answered Claverhouse "why, I will answer you frankly. Then I thought I had to do with the son of an old roundheaded rebel, and the nephew of a sordid presbyterian laird; now I know your points better, and there is that about you which I respect in an enemy as much as I like in a friend.

He was originally a country laird, born to a considerable estate situated near John o' Groat's House, almost beyond the beat of civilization, in a bare wild country fronting the stormy North Sea.

Warlock would excuse the interest he took in his son's welfare. Nothing was more sad than to see the seed of the righteous turning from the path of righteousness and so on. The laird made reply that he was obliged to Mr.

"It's whiles i' the storm, whiles i' the desert, whiles i' the agony, an' whiles i' the calm, whaurever he gets them richt them lanes,'at the Lord visits his people in person, as a body micht say," remarked the laird, after a long pause. Cosmo did not get well so fast as he had begun to expect.

Her daughter marry a shepherd lad! Nay, that should never be, though indeed the lad was a bonny one and brave. Then in her anger she bade young Donald begone. 'If ye do steal away my daughter, then, without doubt ye shall hang for it! she cried. The young laird turned haughtily on his heel. He had little patience, nor could his spirit easily brook such scorn as the old Dame flung at him.

"I will talk to him in his room by-and-by, and point out to him the sin he has committed," she observed to Mrs Leslie. The laird soon after came in, and the party went to dinner. He saw that something was wrong, but refrained from asking questions. Norman ate his dinner in silence, and no one felt disposed to speak to him. He did not like this, and it made him feel more and more angry with Fanny.