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"I have often heard of this faculty," observed Anderson, "but I have always thought those pretending to it were either enthusiasts or impostors." "I should be loath," said Lord Menteith, "to apply either character to my kinsman, Allan M'Aulay.
"Is it the blood of James Grahame?" said Argyle, a ghastly expression of hope mixing with the terror which the sudden apparition naturally excited. "It is the blood of his minion," answered M'Aulay "It is the blood which I was predestined to shed, though I would rather have spilt my own." Having thus spoken, he turned and left the castle, and from that moment nothing certain is known of his fate.
It was thick spread with dead and wounded, and the spoilers were busy tearing the clothes from the victims of war and feudal ambition, with as much indifference as if they had not been of the same species, and themselves exposed, perhaps to-morrow, to the same fate. "Does the sight please you?" said M'Aulay.
Johnson, talking of hereditary occupations in the Highlands, said, 'There is no harm in such a custom as this; but it is wrong to enforce it, and oblige a man to be a taylor or a smith, because his father has been one. This custom, however, is not peculiar to our Highlands; it is well known that in India a similar practice prevails. Mr. M'Aulay began a rhapsody against creeds and confessions. Dr.
"As fixed as Ben-Nevis," said the young nobleman. "You must, then," said Montrose, "lose no time in seeking an explanation with the Knight of Ardenvohr. If this prove favourable, I will talk myself with the elder M'Aulay, and we will devise means to employ his brother at a distance from the army until he shall be reconciled to his present disappointment.
I can step in and out of mine like a glove; only to-night, although not EBRIUS, I am, in the classic phrase, VINO CIBOQUE GRAVATUS." By this time he was unshelled, and stood before the fire musing with a face of drunken wisdom on the events of the evening. What seemed chiefly to interest him, was the character of Allan M'Aulay.
At length one of the most powerful of them commenced the diet by saying, "We have been summoned hither, M'Aulay, to consult of weighty matters concerning the King's affairs, and those of the state; and we crave to know by whom they are to be explained to us?" M'Aulay, whose strength did not lie in oratory, intimated his wish that Lord Menteith should open the business of the council.
Will ye send them to Glasgow by the Glenara? I think Mr. M'Aulay would lend us a box or two. Or will ye clean them and dry them, and sell them from a barrow? 'We canna start two or three trades all at once, said Rob, after a minute or two. 'I think we'll sell them straight off, if the folk are no in bed. Ye'll gang and see, Neil; and I'll count the fish at the slip.
The Duke of Argyle was exceedingly polite to him, and upon his complaining of the shelties which he had hitherto ridden being too small for him, his grace told him he should be provided with a good horse to carry him next day. Mr. John M'Aulay passed the evening with us at our inn. When Dr. Johnson spoke of people whose principles were good, but whose practice was faulty, Mr.
Mr M'Aulay and I laid the map of Scotland before us; and he pointed out a rout for us from Inverness, by Fort Augustus, to Glenelg, Sky, Mull, Icolmkill, Lorn, and Inveraray, which I wrote down.
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