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"I am sorry for it," he said at last, in a voice that was scarce his own; "I'm in an agony for it now; and your horse was not round Strone before I could have bit out the tongue that flattered your folly." MacCailein smiled with a solemn pity that sat oddly on the sinister face that was a mask to a complex and pliable soul.
I doubt MacCailein Mor heard little of this uncheery criticism, for he was looking in a seeming blank abstraction out of the end window at the town lights increasing in number as the minutes passed. His own piper in the close behind the buttery had tuned up and into the gathering "Bha mi air banais 'am bail' Inneraora. Banais bu mhiosa bha riamh air an t-saoghal!"
"Even so, MacCailein; I'm a plain man," said M'Iver, "though of a good family, brought up roughly among men, with more regard to my strength and skill of arm than to book-learning; but I think I can say that here and in this crisis I am a man more fit, express, and appropriate than yourself.
We were, without doubt, in a most desperate extremity, If we had escaped the immediate peril of the pursuing troopers of MacDonald, we had a longer, wearier hazard before us. Between us and the comparative safety of Bredalbane lay Stewarts, MacDonalds, Macgregors, and other families less known in history, who hated the name of MacCailein more than they feared the wrath of God.
They were gone with MacCailein, I explained, as paid volunteers. "Oh! those wars!" she cried sadly. "I wish they were ended. Here are the fields, good crops, food and happiness for all, why must men be fighting?" "Ask your Highland heart," said I. "We are children of strife." "In my heart," she replied, "there's but love for all.
He was a jocular fellow with the right heart for a duello, and in his nipped burgh Gaelic he made light of the disturbance and his injury. "Nothing but a bit play, my jurymen MacCailein my lordship a bit play. If the poor lad didn't happen to have his dirk out and I to run on it, nobody was a bodle the worse." "But the law" started the clerk to say. "No case for law at all," said the man.
For some minutes I stood turning the thing over in my mind, being by nature slow to take on any scheme of high emprise without some scrupulous balancing of chances. Half-way up the closes, in the dusk, and in their rooms, well back from the windows, or far up the street, all aloof from his Majesty MacCailein Mor, the good curious people of Inneraora watched us.
"Just so; to Inverlochy," answered M'Iver. "I suppose we are to give them a call when we can muster enough men?" "Hadn't we better consider where we are first?" said MacCailein. Then he put his fair hand through his ruddy locks and sighed. His reverence here has had his will of me on that score."
I said I knew you from boot to bonnet, but there's a corner here I have still to learn the secret of." "Well, well," cried M'Iver, lifting a glass confusedly, and seating himself again at the board, "here's a night-cap MacCailein Mor and the Campbell cause!" "And a thought for the lady of Regenwalde," I whispered, pressing his foot with my toe beneath the table, and clinking my glass with his.
The object of my friend's description was speaking into the ear of MacCailein Mor by this time, and the Marquis's face showed his tale was interesting, to say the least of it.
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