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Updated: July 2, 2025
Little by little it reaches its fatal end, and disguises delusion successfully under the garb of truth. Day after day, the false conviction grew on Sydney's mind that Herbert Linley was comparing the life he led now with the happier life which he remembered at Mount Morven.
I never had gold that would stay by me. You know my hand was always open." "The old complaint again." "No; but having come to the end of my store, I began to grow serious." "Ah, Morven! said the countess, reproachfully. "Well, never mind; when my purse is low my spirits sink, as the mercury does with the cold. You used to say my spirits were mercurial I think they were." "Well, what did you do?"
He saw in the starry firmament all the gods of Olympus, the fathers of primitive humanity. In the constellations he read the story of the golden age, and of the ages of brass; in the winter wind he heard the songs of Morven, and in the storm-clouds he bowed to the ghosts of Fingal and Comala.
"Behold," said Morven, taking up a chaplet of colored plumes, "wear this on thy head, and put on a brave face for the people like a hopeful spirit and go down with thy brother to the place where the new king is to be chosen, and leave the rest to the stars. "But, above all things, forget not that chaplet; it has been blessed by the gods of night." The prince took the chaplet and returned home.
At Torosay, on the Sound of Mull, and looking over to the mainland of Morven, there was an inn with an innkeeper, who was a Maclean, it appeared, of a very high family; for to keep an inn is thought even more genteel in the Highlands than it is with us, perhaps as partaking of hospitality, or perhaps because the trade is idle and drunken.
Moreover, besides the probability of his imagination having been early tinged with the sullen hue of the local traditions, it is remarkable, that the longest of his juvenile poems is an imitation of the manner of the Homer of Morven.
To say that the characters never could exist, that the manners are impossible, and that a dream has more substance than the whole state of society, as there depicted, is doing nothing more than pronouncing a censure which Macpherson defied; when, with the steeps of Morven before his eyes, he could talk so familiarly of his Car-borne heroes; of Morven, which, if one may judge from its appearance at the distance of a few miles, contains scarcely an acre of ground sufficiently accommodating for a sledge to be trailed along its surface.
But the conspiracy was discovered by its objects; Mackinnon suffered death at the hands of the two brothers for his design; and the Lord of the Isles, sailing in his galley towards his Castle of Ardtorinsh in Morven, was captured, and carried to Icolumb-kill, where he was obliged, sitting on the famous black rock of Iona, held sacred in those days, to swear that he would bestow in marriage upon Lachlan Lubanich his daughter Margaret, granddaughter, by her mother's side, of Robert the Second, King of Scotland: and with her, as a dowry, to give to the Lord of Duart, Eriska, with all its isles.
They were ceremonious and polite until they had a moment to retire from before people, when the countess changed her cold disdain to a cordial and familiar address. "And now, my dear Morven," she exclaimed, as soon as they were unobserved "and now, my dear Morven, that we are not seen, tell me, what have you been doing with yourself?" "Why, I have been in some trouble.
Then three of the swift of foot started forth to the house of Darvan. And Morven cried out with a loud voice: "Hark! thus saith the star who, now riding through yonder cloud breaks forth upon my eyes 'For the lie that the elder hath uttered against my servant, the curse of the stars shall fall upon him. Seek, and as ye find him, so may ye find ever the foes of Morven and the gods."
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