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Updated: May 7, 2025
The face was chalk-blue; gleaming eyes stared at the sky. Over the two upright figures was a windy sound of bullets, and on the top of the hill Lean's prostrate company of Spitzbergen infantry was firing measured volleys. "Don't you think it would be better " began the adjutant. "We might leave him until tomorrow." "No," said Lean. "I can't hold that post an hour longer.
There was a moment's pause when the whole party had got out of the hut; and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in Waverley's awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall figure who had acted as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, by whispers and signs imposed the strictest silence.
They also manifested great interest at the meeting on the previous day. On the following day I arrived at Washington. I found the White House perfectly besieged with pardon-seekers from ex-slave States. I called on a number of the officials, who said that the severity of Thomas Lean's sentence made the case look dark.
There was a moment's pause when the whole party had got out of the hut; and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in Waverley's awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall figure who had acted as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, by whispers and signs imposed the strictest silence.
"But what for did the man want to shoot at you?" asked the scandalized Dickson. "What for? Because they're frightened to death o' onybody going near their auld Hoose. They're a pair of deevils, worse nor any Red Indian, but for a' that they're sweatin' wi' fright. What for? says you. Because they're hiding a Secret. I knew it as soon as I seen the man Lean's face.
'No fat, sir, says I. 'Fat's the cure, says the captain, and makes me eat it. 'Lean's the cure, says the captain, and makes me eat it. 'Steady? says the captain. 'Sick, says I. 'Go on deck, says the captain; 'get rid of the boiled leg of mutton and trimmings and come back to the cabin. Off I go, staggering back I come, more dead than alive. 'Deviled kidneys, says the captain.
I need one, for Lean's after me wi' a gun. He had a shot at me two days syne." Dickson exclaimed, and Dougal with morose pride showed a rent in his kilt. "If I had had on breeks, he'd ha' got me." "Who's Lean?" Heritage asked. "The man wi' the black coat. The other the lame one they ca' Spittal." "How d'you know?" "I've listened to them crackin' thegither."
There was a moment's pause when the whole party had got out of the hut; and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in Waverley's awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall figure who had acted as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, by whispers and signs imposed the strictest silence.
There was a moment's pause when the whole party had got out of the hut; and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in Waverley's awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall figure who had acted as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, by whispers and signs imposed the strictest silence.
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