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He allowed his artistic temperament to run loose during the holidays. He would go up to Bella Vista and play for hours on the Macleods' new grand piano, improvising beautiful airs, and sending Fay into raptures. "Why don't you write them down right away?" she demanded. "What's the use? No one would publish them if I did. The publishers are fed up with young composers wanting a hearing.
"We would not like to steal the honor from a woman, even though she was a Macdonald, and you know the Macdonalds and the Macleods were not very friendly in the old time. But we can claim something too about the escape of Prince Charlie, Mrs. Ross.
Young Macleod took up a horn tumbler, rimmed with silver, and having the triple-towered castle of the Macleods engraved on it, and filled it with wine. He handed it to the lad.
At this praise imagine telling a piper lad that he was a fit successor of the MacCruimins, the hereditary pipers of the Macleods the young stripling blushed hot; but he did not forget his professional dignity for all that. And he was so proud of his good English that he replied in that tongue. "I will take a glass of the claret wine, Sir Keith," said he.
You first acknowledge that the Macleods were by far the most savage of the people living up there: and then you tried to make out that the poor creatures whom they harried were as cruel as themselves." "What is cruel now was not cruel then," he said; "it was a way of fighting: it was what is called an ambush now enticing your enemy, and then taking him at a disadvantage.
This was the story told by some friendly Indians to a party of white men, and subsequently brought home to Castle Dare. The next four of the sons of Dare were soldiers, as most of the Macleods of that family had been. And if you ask about the graves of Roderick and Ronald, what is one to say? They are known, and yet unknown.
And I think," added he, with a becoming modesty, "that the Macleods were by far the most treacherous and savage and bloodthirsty of the whole lot of them." And now the fair stranger beside him addressed him for the first time; and as she did so, she turned her eyes towards him clear, large eyes that rather startled one when the heavy lids were lifted, so full of expression were they.
It was early in the season when the Macleods returned to their summer home, but "lily-footed spring" was there before them. Earth, air, and sky were bathed in a glory of sunlight, which strove to penetrate the dark labyrinth of the pines through which the wind sang. The bay was embowered in gleaming foliage.
"Oh yes, no doubt!" said he; "but the Macdonalds were asked first to give up the men that had bound the Macleods hand and foot and set them adrift in the boat, and they would not do it. And if the Macdonalds had got the Macleods into a cave, they would have suffocated them too. The Macdonalds began it." "Oh, no, no, no," protested Mrs. Ross; "I can remember better than that.
"I wonder you don't let part of that shooting," said young Ogilvie, who knew well of the straitened circumstances of the Macleods of Dare. "The mother won't have it done," said Macleod, quite simply, "for she thinks it keeps me at home. But a young man cannot always stay at home. It is very good for you, Ogilvie, that you have brothers." "Yes, if I had been the eldest of them," said Mr. Ogilvie.
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