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The guest could not help smiling, and saying he was glad books were thus prized in Scotland; but at that moment, as the sunny look shone on his face, and he stood before the fire in the close suit of chamois leather which he wore under his armour, old Sir David exclaimed, 'Ha! never did I see such a likeness. Patie, you should be old enough to remember; do you not see it? 'What should I see?
"Your honour disna ken what ye're refusing, then," said the fiddler, with the impertinent freedom of his profession. "I can play, 'Wilt thou do't again, and 'The Auld Man's Mear's Dead, sax times better than ever Patie Birnie. I'll get my fiddle in the turning of a coffin-screw." "Take yourself away, sir," said the Marquis.
'My honour binds me not to trust you wee Malcolm to wander into the wolf's cage alone. 'I am not the silly feckless callant I once was, Patie, answered Malcolm. 'There are many places where my student's serge gown will take me safely, where your corslet and lance would never find entrance. No one will know me again as I am now: will they, holy Mother? 'Assuredly not, said the Abbess.
In the lower room was a sight that opened his eyes with horror no other than the shield of Drummond, with the three wavy lines; ay, and with it the helmet and suit of armour, whereof he knew each buckle and brace! 'Patie! Patrick! Patrick Drummond! he wildly shouted, 'are you there? No answer; and seeing through the smoke a stair, he rushed up.
'Not a message from the Regent, I trust, sighed Malcolm. 'Patie, oh do not lower the drawbridge, till we hear whether it be friend or foe. 'Nay, Malcolm, 'tis well none save friends heard that, said Patrick. 'When shall we make a brave man of you?
'And lost the chance of going with Sir Patie and his wife, and got plighted to the red-haired Master of Angus never see sweet Meg and her braw court, and the tilts and tourneys, but live among murderous caitiffs and reivers all my days, sobbed Jean. 'I would not be such a fule body as to give in for a hasty word or two, specially of Jamie's, said Eleanor composedly.
He wrung his hands in anguish, and was about to make another attempt to drag Patrick down from the already burning house, when suddenly a troop of horse was among the scene of desolation, and at their head King James himself. Malcolm flew to the King, cutting short his angry exclamation with the cry, 'Help! help! he will burn! Patrick! Patie Drummond! There!
When the King sees what a weakling Sir James has brought him, he will be but too glad to exchange Patie for me, and leave me safe in these blessed walls. But here they were under the archway, and the convoy of armed men, whom the exigencies of the time forced the convent to maintain, were already mounted.
Oh, hear me! hear me! and pardon me, Patie! And Malcolm, in his agitation, poured forth the whole story of his having shifted from his old cherished purpose of devoting himself to the service of Heaven, and leaving lands and vassals to the stronger hands of Patrick and Lilias; how, having thus given himself to the world, he had fallen into temptation; how he had let himself be led to persecute with his suit a noble lady, vowed like himself; how he had almost agreed to marry her by force: and how he had been running into the ordinary dissipations of the camp, abstaining from confession, avoiding mass; disobeying orders, plunging into scenes of plunder, till he had almost been the death of Patrick, whom he had already so cruelly wronged.
Their first performance was DOUGLAS TRAGEDY and the GENTLE SHEPHERD: and the general opinion was, that the lad who played Norval in the play, and Patie in the farce, was an English lord's son, who had run away from his parents rather than marry an old cracket lady with a great portion.
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