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Such as he was, Rob Roy's progress in his occupation is thus described by a gentleman of sense and talent, who resided within the circle of his predatory wars, had probably felt their effects, and speaks of them, as might be expected, with little of the forbearance with which, from their peculiar and romantic character, they are now regarded.
'I'll take the oars, he said unceremoniously, and Ken, though himself a useful man with sculls, made no objection. Roy's strength, he knew, was greater than his own. In a trice Roy had flung off his Turkish overcoat and British tunic. The blades bent as he sent the boat hissing through the water.
Grains of sand caught up by it drove stingingly against their faces. Each grain cut into the flesh, smarting sharply. "We must keep on." It was Roy's voice, coming after a long silence. Peggy answered with a monosyllable.
How how is Roy?" replied Helen, anxiously scanning the wrinkled face. "Roy? Now don't you look so scared. Roy's 'most ready to git on his hoss an' ride home, if I let him. He knowed you was a-comin'. An' he made me hold a lookin'-glass for him to shave. How's thet fer a man with a bullet-hole through him! You can't kill them Mormons, nohow."
It might pass in my handwriting, with a smudge for paternal grief it might. "To Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Rippau, etc., etc., etc., in trust for the Most Exalted the Princess of Eppenwelzen-Sarkeld." I transpose or omit a title or so. "Aha!" says she, "there's verwirrung in Roy's poor head, poor fellow; the boy has sunk to a certainty.
Everybody connected it with Roy's act of rescue on the trestle, and so many spoke to him about it that he was almost afraid to show himself in public. "What do you care?" said Jess, when he complained to her about it. "It certainly isn't a thing you are ashamed of." "But I don't know what to say," he returned.
Rob did not pretend, when pressed closely on the subject, to justify all the tenets of Catholicism, and acknowledged that extreme unction always appeared to him a great waste of ulzie, or oil.* * Such an admission is ascribed to the robber Donald Bean Lean in Waverley, chap. lxii, In the last years of Rob Roy's life, his clan was involved in a dispute with one more powerful than themselves.
"There are not many dwellings out this way, nothing but a big swamp, as I recollect it." "My partner, he poor man," was the rejoinder. "He live with cousins out here." The answer lulled Roy's rousing suspicions. "It must be all right," he thought. "There can't be any trick in all this. It's quite likely that Mortlake does want to play us a mean trick.
It is certain that she felt extreme anguish at being expelled from the banks of Loch Lomond, and gave vent to her feelings in a fine piece of pipe-music, still well known to amateurs by the name of "Rob Roy's Lament."
My poor little Jonathan!" A hot tear splashed on Roy's forehead; he put up his hand and stroked his aunt's face. "Never mind, Aunt Judy, David made a better king than Jonathan would have I expect. Don't call Dudley just yet I I want to be alone." Miss Bertram left him, but sat down outside his door on a broad window ledge and cried like a child.
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