Do as I bid you; send back the soldiers to Portanferry.

There's nae mair fear o' Hazlewood House than there's o' Cruffel Fell.' And she vanished with her usual celerity of pace.
It would seem that the appearance of this female, and the mixture of frenzy and enthusiasm in her manner, seldom failed to produce the strongest impression upon those whom she addressed.

Her words, though wild, were too plain and intelligible for actual madness, and yet too vehement and extravagant for sober-minded communication.

She seemed acting under the influence of an imagination rather strongly excited than deranged; and it is wonderful how palpably the difference in such cases is impressed upon the mind of the auditor.

This may account for the attention with which her strange and mysterious hints were heard and acted upon.