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"Reminds me" here he put his hand into his inside pocket and pulled out a flask, "excuse the glass," he said, offering it to Mr. St. Clair, who took a slight sip and handed it back. "Have a little refreshment," said the colonel, offering it to Ranald. "I never take it, thank you." "Don't? Say, by the great Sam, how'd you get through all that wet country?
Ranald caught the tremor in her voice and looked at her. "Yes," he said, with an effort. "He was good to me in the camp. Many's the time he made it easy for me. He was next to Macdonald Bhain with the ax, and, man, he was the grand fighter that is," he added, adopting the phrase of the Macdonald gang, "when it was a plain necessity."
Why did you not come and tell me." "I am very sorry, sir. I was afraid you would be troubled at finding how wicked she was, and I thought we might frighten her away somehow. But Ranald began his tricks without letting me know, and then I saw that mine could be of no use, for she would suspect them after his. Mine would have been better, sir." "I have no doubt of it, but equally unjustifiable.
Instantly recovering himself, Ranald, in passing, whispered somewhat to one of the females, who, like Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, seemed engaged in watching and mourning the victims of feudal injustice and cruelty. The woman started at his voice, but immediately collected herself and returned for answer a slight inclination of the head.
I am Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket, and so forth, Major in a regiment of loyal Irishes, and Envoy Extraordinary of a High and Mighty Lord, James Earl of Montrose. Pray, what may your name be?" "It will avail you little to know," replied his more taciturn companion. "Let me judge of that matter," answered the soldier. "Well, then Ranald MacEagh is my name that is, Ranald Son of the Mist."
Were I you, Ranald, I would be for miskenning Sir Duncan, keeping my own secret, and departing quietly by suffocation, like your ancestors before you." "Yet hearken, stranger," said the Highlander. "Sir Duncan of Ardenvohr had four children.
"Oh, Ranald," said Tom, almost weeping, "I didn't mean to I never thought I'm awfully sorry." "Oh, pshaw!" said Ranald, who was taking off Hughie's shirt preparatory to wringing it, "I know. Besides, it was you who pulled us out. You were doing your best, Don, of course, but we would have gone under the jam but for Tom."
One Sabbath evening, it chanced that John "Aleck," who always had an ear open for a good voice, heard him rolling out his deep bass, and seizing him on the spot, had made him promise to join the singing school. There he discovered a talent and developed a taste for singing that delighted his leader's heart, and opened out to himself a new world. The piano, too, was a new and rare treat to Ranald.
So, now he is sufficiently muffled; hold down your hands, or, by Heaven, I will stab you to the heart with your own dagger! nay, you shall be bound with nothing less than silk, as your quality deserves. So, now he is secure till some one comes to relieve him. If he ordered us a late dinner, Ranald, he is like to be the sufferer; at what hour, my good Ranald, did the jailor usually appear?"
Restlessness was in the very air while we waited for the coming fight. "King Ranald," she said, after a little silence, "I wonder if ever a maiden was in such sad doubt as I. I cannot wish that these dear ladies, who have made a friend of me, should see their folk beaten, and maybe slain; and cannot wish that my own kin should be beaten either.
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