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"So," said he; "poor dear!" and he turned and looked out again at the snow. We were, in spite of our dead Glencoe man's assurance, in as wicked a piece of country as well might be. No snow had fallen since we left Tombreck, and from that dolorous ruin almost to our present retreat was the patent track of our march.
We were on the edge of a glade of the wood, at the watershed of a small burn that tinkled among its ice along the ridge from Tombreck, dividing close beside us, half of it going to Shira Glen and half to Aora. The tall trees stood over us like sentinels, coated with snow in every bough; a cool crisp air fanned me, with a hint in it, somehow, of a smouldering wood-fire.
"No more of it, then," said I. "Our difference began on my fool's notion that because I had something of what you would call a liking for this girl, no one else should let an eye light on her." By now we were in a wide glade in the Tombreck wood. "There's one chance in a million she might have ventured here," I said. A most melancholy dwelling!
"Wrong, wrong!" said I, striding under the trees as we slanted to the right for Tombreck. "His manner is provoking." "I've seen him polish it pretty well for the ladies." "His temper's always on the boil." "Spirit, man; spirit! I like a fellow of warmth now and then." "He took it most ungraciously when we put him out of the Provost's house on the night of the squabble in the town."
"O my boy, my boy!" cried Jean Clerk. "Do I not know your story? I dreamt last night I saw a white horse galloping over Tombreck to Ladyfield and the rider of him had his face in his plaid. Peace with her, and her share of Paradise!" And thus my hero, who thought so much upon the way of his message, had no need to convey it any way at all.
I think I gave a gasp that let John Splendid into my secret there and then; but at least I left him no doubt about what I would be at. "What's the nearer way to Strongara?" I asked; "alongside the river, or through Tombreck?"
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