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"It will not be to your pleasure to know, Macruadh," said Donal, humbly declining to sit, "that I have received this day notice to quit my house and garden!" The house was a turf-cottage, and the garden might grow two bushels and a half of potatoes. "Are you far behind with your rent?" "Not a quarter, Macruadh." "Then what does it mean?"
Mercy at her window, where was her usual seat now, saw them coming, and instinctively connected their appearance with her father's new measures of protection; and when the men turned toward the kitchen, she ran down to learn what she could. Rob greeted her with a smile as he entered. "I am going to fetch the Macruadh," he whispered, and turning went out again.
The Macruadh cast his mind's and his body's eye too upon the small strip of ground on the west side of the castle-ridge, between it and the tiny tributary of the strath burn which was here the boundary between the lands of the two lairds.
"The one I speak of," said Ian, "is not wicked, though it is full of rubbish, and its religion is very false." Whether Mercy meant to take her revenge on him with consciously bad logic, I am in doubt. "Captain Macruadh! you astonish me! A Scotchman speak so of religion!" "I spoke of the religion in that book. I said it was false which is the same as saying it was not religion."
There is one other point in the character of the Macruadh which I must mention ere I pass on; in this region, and at this time, it was a great peculiarity, one that yielded satisfaction to few of the clan, and made him even despised in the strath: he hated whisky, and all the drinking customs associated with it.
As the chief piled the peats, he counted them. She sat watching him and them from a stone that made part of a rude rampart to the hearth. "I told you so, Macruadh!" she said, the moment she saw his hand return empty from the bottom of the creel. "I was positive there should be three more! But what's on the road is not with the devil."
The philosopher occupies himself with Grod's decree, the Christian with God's will; the philosopher with what God may intend, the Christian with what God wants HIM TO DO. The laird looked up and there were the young ladies! It was the first time Christina had come nigh the cottage since Ian's departure. "Can you tell me, Macruadh," she said, "what makes Mrs. Conal so spiteful always?
The Macruadh, as the few who yet held by the sore-frayed, fast-vanishing skirt of clanship, called him, was the son of the last minister of the parish-a godly man, who lived that which he could ill explain, and was immeasurably better than those parts of his creed which, from a sense of duty, he pushed to the front.
I belong to you, and you belong to me, and I am taking you home to my mother." At the word, silence fell, not on the lips, but on the soul of the raving prophetess: the chief she loved, his mother she feared. "Set me down, Macruadh!" she pleaded in gentle tone. "Don't carry me to her empty-handed!
If Alister Macruadh was not in the highest grade of Christianity, he was on his way thither, for he was doing the work that was given him to do, which is the first condition of all advancement. He had much to learn yet, but he was one who, from every point his feet touched, was on the start to go further. The day of the holy eve rose clear and bright.
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