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Then he said encouragingly: "Ah, there is nothing but the remains of their former greatness left to the Macleods. They are growing more and more bourgeois since coming to this degenerate country. "Yes, I imagine that their family dignity, in such times as these, may be a little out of repair; but I can hardly venture to build vain hopes on the ruins. You are a good fellow, Tredway; good-bye!"
But Duncan Forbes of Culloden, the lord president, had influence enough to hold back the Macleods of Skye, to paralyze the shifty Lovat, and to secure the Sutherland house for the Hanoverian cause. Charles left Boisdale for Kinlochmoidart, "the head of Loch Moidart," where an avenue of trees, the prince's walk, is still shown, though the old house was burned after Culloden.
"I drink your health, Lady Macleod," said he, when he had removed his cap; "and I drink your health, Miss Macleod; and I drink your health, Sir Keith; and I would have a lighter heart this night if I was going with you away to England." It was a bold demand. "I cannot take you with me, Donald; the Macleods have got out of the way of taking their piper with them now.
When she became a Macleod, she would have to accept the motto of the Macleods. That motto is, Hold Fast. She heard her sister come into the house, and she raised her head. Presently Carry opened the door; and it was clear she was in high spirits. "Oh, Mopsy," said she and this was a pet name she gave her sister Carry when the latter was in great favor "did you ever see such a morning in November?
Within it is a large cavern, which was the scene of one of those atrocious acts in "the good old days" when might made right. Two hundred Macdonalds, fugitives from a superior number of Macleods, had taken refuge in the cavern, when, unfortunately for them, one of their party, having left the mark of his footsteps in the snow, their place of concealment was betrayed.
It was not enough that the big deer forest, the last of the possessions of the Macleods of Dare, had been kept intact for him, when the letting of it to a rich Englishman would greatly have helped the failing fortunes of the family; it was not enough that the poor people about, knowing Lady Macleod's wishes, had no thought of keeping a salmon spear hidden in the thatch of their cottages.
I think if I were a Macdonald I should be proud of that scene the Macdonalds marching down to their boats with their pipes playing, while the barn was all in a blaze fired by their treacherous enemies. Oh, Sir Keith, I hope there are no Macleods of that sort alive now." "There are not, Mrs. Ross," said he, gravely. "They were all killed by the Macdonalds, I suppose."
Lennox did make an attempt against Dumbarton in November with Donald Dubh. They failed, and Donald died, without legitimate issue, at Drogheda. The Macleans, Macleods, and Macneils then came into the national party. In September 1545 Hertford, with an English force, destroyed the religious houses at Melrose, Kelso, Dryburgh, and Jedburgh.
What would she say about that far land that she had shown such a deep interest in? There was no raillery at all in her low voice as she spoke. "I can very well understand," she said, "how the people there fancied they heard the mermaids singing amidst so much mystery, and with the awfulness of the sea around them." "But we have had living singers," said Macleod, "and that among the Macleods, too.
Charles had told the chiefs, "I can see nothing but ruin and destruction to us in case we should retreat." After the retreat Lord George moved on Aberdeen; Charles to Blair in Atholl; thence to Moy, the house of Lady Mackintosh, where a blacksmith and four or five men ingeniously scattered Loudoun and the Macleods, advancing to take him by a night surprise. This was the famous Rout of Moy.
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