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"I daresay, Peggy, they'll let us be," she said, coming forward to shake Splendid and me by the hand. "To keep me in braws and you in ashets to break would be more than the poor creatures would face, I'm thinking. You are late in the town, Elrigmore." "Colin," I corrected her, and she bit the inside of her nether lip in a style that means temper. "It's no time for dalliance, I think.
M'Iver, had he his own way of it, would have met his chief and cousin alone; and he gave a hint delicately of that kind, affecting to be interested only in sparing me the trouble and helping me home to Elrigmore, where my father and his men had returned three days before. The castle had the stillness of the grave.
"Would you not have a deoch-an-doruis?" asked the woman, making to a press and producing a bottle. M'Iver started in a new alarm. "No, no. You're very good," said he; "but I never take it myself in the morning, and good day, mistress and my friend Elrigmore, who's left with me here, is perhaps too free with it sometimes; and indeed maybe I'm that way myself too it's a thing that grows on you.
With your schooling I could go round the world conquering." "Ah! flatterer, flatterer! Ye have all the guile of the tongue our enemies give Clan Campbell credit for, and that I wish I had a little more of. Still and on, it's no time for fair words. Look! Elrigmore.
The child clung at her coats, a ruddy brat, with astonishment stilling its whimper. For a little the girl half misdoubted us, for the wood behind us and the still sombre west left us in a shadow, and there was a tremor in her voice as she challenged in English "Is that you, Elrigmore?"
I was sore and galled sitting on the saddle; my weariness hung at the back of my legs and shoulders like an ague, and there was never a man in this world came home to his native place so eager for taking supper and sleep as young Elrigmore. What I expected at my father's door I am not going to set down here.
Luckily he can be little farther than Glenurchy now. Elrigmore and I had the honour to see the visitors make their departure. They carried so much stolen gear, and drove so big a prize of cattle, that I would not give them more than a twenty miles' march to the day." "Will they hang together, do you think?" asked his lordship, fingering a crystal bottle for essence that lay on the 'scrutoire.
If it's your will, Elrigmore, we may be doing without the brandy, and give the house-dame a call now." We went in and paid our duties to the goodwife a silver-haired dame with a look of Betty in every smile. Writing all this old ancient history down, I find it hard to riddle out in my mind the things that have really direct and pregnant bearing on the matter in hand.
There is a valour better than the valour of the beast unreasoning. Your lordship has seen it at its proper place in your younger wars; young Elrigmore, I am sure, has seen it on the Continent, where men live quiet burgh lives while left alone, and yet comport themselves chivalrously and gallantly on the stricken fields when their country or a cause calls for them so to do.
I'm your true cavalier in one respect, that I must be offering every handsome passenger an escort; but this time it's an office for Elrigmore, who can undertake your company down the way bravely enough, I'll swear, for all his blateness." Betty halted, as did the other two of us, and bantered my comrade.
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