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His royal highness proceeded to Nairn, where he received intelligence that the enemy had advanced from Inverness to Culloden, about the distance of nine miles from the royal army, with intention to give him battle.
'Openly and manifestly by the scriptures of God, with many and godly exhortations have I moved you to repentance. Yet will you neither hear nor speak 'Bones of St. Nairn! Culpepper cried; 'here is too much speaking and no work. Huzzay! e caitiffs. Burn. Burn. Burn.
It informed us that ye would arrange for the postponed meeting at your earliest convenience. Ye did not mention ours." "I pointed that out to him, and he said it didn't matter," Carroll interrupted with a laugh. Nairn spread out his hands in expostulation, but there was dry appreciation in his eyes. "Young blood must have its way." He paused and looked thoughtful.
Taking it all round, I don't know what to think. Of course, if it appeared that there was a moral certainty of making a satisfactory profit on the new stock, I should consent." Nairn chuckled. "A moral certainty is no a very common thing in mining." "Horsfield's in favor of the scheme. How far would you trust that man?" "About as far as I could fling a bull by the tail.
"I anticipated something of the kind last night; I saw how you kept clear of the matter." "But you said nothing." "No. I'd had time to consider the thing while I lay here, and it didn't look as if I could have got an intelligible account out of you. But you may as well mention how much Nairn got."
Harold left all his hostages close by at Lochloy, and went alone to the king at Nairn, and endeavoured to excuse himself by offering two grandsons to the king and stating that Thorfinn was his heir and could not therefore be given up; but was taken prisoner himself and lodged in Edinburgh Castle, till his son Thorfinn came to take his place.
"There's no doubt that those specimens aren't quite so promising," he said at length; "and the cost of extraction is going up. I'll have a talk with Nairn when I get back; but in the meanwhile it looks as if we were going to have trouble with the water." "It's a thing I've been afraid of for some time," Salter answered.
"Yon man will no hear reason," Nairn concluded. "He's thrawn." Evelyn had already noticed that her host, for whom she had a strong liking, spoke broader Scotch when he was either amused or angry, and she supposed that Vane's determination disturbed him. "But why should he persist in leaving the city, when it's to his disadvantage to do so, as you lead one to believe it is?" she asked.
"Then is it something Vane has done that is on your mind? Doubtless, ye feel him a responsibility." "He's what you'd call all that," Carroll declared. "Still, you see, I've constituted myself his guardian. I don't know why; he'd probably be very vexed if he suspected it." "The gods give ye a good conceit of yourself," Mrs. Nairn laughed. "I need it.
"He and Winter work into each other's hands." "But Winter has no interest in the Clermont!" Nairn smiled sourly. "He holds no shares in the mine; but there's no much in the shape of mineral developments yon man has no an interest in. Since ye do no seem inclined to yield Horsfield a point or two, it might pay ye to watch the pair of them."