[The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scottish Chiefs CHAPTER III 2/21
Go you to your chamber.
After you have had repose, that will be time enough to revisit the remains of the poor earl, and to bring them with the box to the house.
I will take a religious charge of both, for the sake of the dear intruster." Halbert persuaded his aldy to lie down on the bed, that her limbs at least might rest after the fatigue of so harassing a night; and she, little suspecting that he meant to do otherwise than to sleep also, kindly wished him repose and retired. Her maids, during the late terror, had dispersed, and were nowhere to be found; and the men, too, after their stout resistance at the gates, had all disappeared; some fled others were sent away prisoners to Lanark, while the good Hambledon was conversing with their lady. Halbert, therefore, resigned himself to await with patience the rising of the sun, when he hoped some of the scared domestics would return; if not, he determined to go to the cotters who lived in the depths of the glen, and bring some of them to supply the place of the fugitives; and a few, with stouter hearts, to guard his lady. Thus musing, he sat on a stone bench in the hall, watching anxiously the appearance of that orb, whose setting beams he hoped would light him back with tidings of William Wallace to comfort the lonely heart of his Marion.
All seemed at peace.
Nothing was hear but the sighing of the trees as they waved before the western window, which opened toward the Lanark hills.
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