Should the guard arrive soon, your flight may be prevented.

You must go now--but, oh! whither ?" "Not far distant, my love.

In going from thee, I leave behind all that makes my life precious to me; how then can I go far away?
No! there are recesses among the Cartlane Craigs, I discovered while hunting, and which I believe have been visited by no mortal foot but my own.

There I will be, my Marion, before sunrise; and before it sets, thither you must send Halbert, to tell me how you fare.

Three notes from thine own sweet strains of Thusa ha measg na reultan mor,** blown by his pipe, shall be a sign to me that he is there; and I will come forth to hear tidings of thee." **Thusa ha measg na reultan mor, etc., are the beginning words of an old Gaelic ditty, the English of which runs thus: "Thou who art amid the stars, move to thy bed with music," etc.-( 1809.) "Ah, my Wallace, let me go with thee!" "What, dearest!" returned he, "to live amidst rocks and streams! to expose thy tender self, and thine unborn infant, to all the accidents of such a lodging!" "But are not you going to so rough, so dangerous a lodging ?" asked she.
"O! would not rocks and streams be Heaven's paradise to me, when blessed by the presence of my husband?
Ah! let me go!" "Impossible, my lady," cried Halbert, afraid that the melting heart of his master would consent: "you are safe here; and your flight would awaken suspicion in the English, that he had not gone far.