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However, 'fondy' or no, I was sworn to go and see for myself, though the thought that 'twas perhaps a disguise the reiver had worn gave me discomfort, and made my quest seem foolish enough.
This man ran a very fairish country-bred, a long, racking high mare with the temper of a fiend, and the paces of an airy wandering seraph a drifty, glidy stretch. The mare was, as a delicate tribute to Mrs. Reiver, called "The Lady Regula Baddun" or for short, Regula Baddun. Shackles' jockey, Brunt, was a quite well-behaved boy, but his nerve had been shaken.
"I yea-say it," said the Baron; "and now do thou, rank reiver, go back to thy fellowship and tell them what we have areded, and do thou, Oliver Marson, do so much for our folk; and bid them wot this, that if any of them break the troth, he shall lose nought more than his life for that same." Therewith all went ashore to either bank, save the Baron of Brimside and Christopher.
I fancy the truth is that George Copeland, who holds it, is little better than a reiver on either side, and that King Edward might grant it back to me if I paid my homage, save that he is sworn never to pardon any who had a share in the death of his brother of Rutland." "You had not! I know you had not!" "Hurt Ned? I'd as soon have hurt my own brother!
It was his boast that he dared to ride farther to humble an enemy than any other reiver on either side of the Border.
And now there come riding across the field two warriors. They draw rein by the mound, and one lights down, and lo! it is Long Nicholas; and he took Ralph in his arms, and kissed him and wept over him for all his grizzled beard and his gaunt limbs; but few words he had for him, save this: "My little Lord, was it thou that was the wise captain to-day, or this stout lifter and reiver!"
'Ay, Aah'll gan mahself, an' Aah'll tak feyther's owd gun wi' me there, for Aah'll stan' none o' his reiver tricks, an' Tom and Jack, they'll come along too, an' 'od burn him, but we'll nab him betwixt us, the impudent scoundrel, if it's a leevin' man he is.
We shall have to flee the country, and they will say I have abducted the heiress of Bourhill. 'Oh, do! Run off with me, as the Red Reiver and all these nice, interesting sort of people used to do long ago. Let us abscond, and not tell a single living soul, except the faithful Teen. But Walter shook his head. 'It is what I should like to do above everything, but I must resist the temptation.
The whole clan of them wants hanging, and if I had my way of it, they wouldna want it long. Are you aware, sir, that these Crozers killed your forebear at the kirk-door? 'You see, he was bigger 'n me, said Francie. 'Jock Crozer! continued the lady. 'That'll be Clement's son, the biggest thief and reiver in the country-side. To trust a note to him!
'That reiver, Patrick Hepburn, let the priest from Haddington come to assoilzie and housel her, responded Jean. 'Ah! Masses shall be said for her by my bedesmen at St. Cross, and at all my churches, said the Cardinal, crossing himself. 'And you are on your way to your sister, the Dolfine, as your knight tells me. It is well.
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