But as the case stood, his bleeding grandfather lay before his eyes; and the ax hung over the heads of the most virtuous nobles of his country.
He heard the chieftain to an end, without speaking or altering the stern attention of his countenance.

But at the close, with an augmented suffusion of blood in his face, and his brows denouncing some tremendous fate, he rose.

"Sir John Graham," said he, "I attend you." "Whither ?" demanded Murray.
"To Ayr," answered Wallace; "this moment I will set out for Dumbarton, to bring away the sinews of my strength.

God will be our speed! and then this arm shall show how I loved that good old man." "Your men," interrupted Graham, "are already awaiting you on the opposite shore.

I presumed to command for you.