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Updated: May 2, 2025
But worst of all the trouble seemed a smittal one, and even our own land began to show symptoms of the plague spot. Agents of the Spirit of Darkness, calling themselves the Friends of the People, held secret meetings, and hatched plots to blow up our blessed king and constitution. Yet the business, though fearsome in the main, was in some parts almost laughable.
I stood to my feet and ganted with great deliberation to pretend I had been half-sleeping. He yawned too, but with such obvious pretence that I could not but laugh at him, and he smiled knowingly back. "Well," said he in English, "you'll allow it's a fair imitation, for I never heard that a put-on gant was smittal.
For in this matter of smittal plagues we Highlanders are the most arrant cowards.
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