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Ae mither's milk slockened ye baith. The same arms cradled ye. I bade ye keep your lord safe wi' your body and your soul. And there ye daur to stand, skin-hale and bane unbroken, before your mither. Get hence ye are nae son o' Barbara MacKim. Let me never look on your face again, gin ye bringna back the pride o' the warld, the gladness o' the auld withered heart o' her ye ca' your mither!"
What can be ill wi' me, if it be not to gang on leevin' when the noblest young men in the warld the lad that was suckled at my bosom, lies cauld in the clay. Awa wi' ye, Sholto MacKim, and come na back till ye hae rowed every traitor in the same bloody windin' sheet!" The foster mother of the Douglases sank on the ground in the dusk, leaning against the wall of her house.
"Maud, Maud, come hither quickly!" she whispered; "if yonder be not Laurence MacKim talking to the singing lads and dressed like them why, then, I do not know Laurie MacKim!" Maud came quickly now. Her face and neck blushed suddenly crimson with the springing of hope in her heart.
In this fashion was Sholto MacKim placed in command of the house-guard of the castle of Thrieve. At parting with his father, the young captain received many wise and grave instructions, all of which he resolved to remember and profit by a resolution which he did not fail to keep for full five minutes.
"If I have indeed been a faithful servant, I beseech you come with me for the sake of the house of Douglas and of your mother, a widow and alone." "Go down, Malise MacKim," said the Earl, more gently; "I will speak with you only at the rope's foot." So very unwillingly Malise went back. "Now," said the Earl, "hearken this will I do and no other.
He knew not, this poor foolish Sholto, that he had much to learn ere he should know all the tricks and stratagems of this most naughty and prettily disdainful minx, Mistress Maud Lindesay. But for that night at least he thought he knew her heart and soul, which made him just as happy. In the morning Sholto MacKim had other views of it.
Yet here are we riding forth, feathers in our bonnets, swords by our sides, panged full of the Chancellor's good meat and drink, and at once, as soon as we are gone, Sholto MacKim begins the same old discontented corbie's croak!" "But, my lord, 'tis a different matter yonder.
Abreast they reined their horses in the quadrangle, and in a moment Sholto had recognised in the rider his brother Laurence, pale as death, and the figure that had clung to the stirrup as the horse took the water, was his father, Malise MacKim. Thus in one moment came the three MacKims to the door-step of Thrieve.
I am glad the son of Brawny Kim hath no small part of his father's spirit. Will you take service and be my esquire, as becomes well a lad of parts who desires to win his way to a knighthood?" The heart of Laurence MacKim beat quickly a horse to ride an esquire perhaps if he had luck and much fighting, a knighthood. Nevertheless, he answered with a bold straight look out of his black eyes.
La Meffraye they took not, for she lay dead within the inner chamber, where yet burned the great fire which was used to consume the bodies of the demon's victims. Two gaping wounds were found in her breast, in the same place in which the dagger of Laurence MacKim had smitten the she-wolf as she sprang upon him.
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