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The Scottish Chiefs

CHAPTER XXXIV
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Heselrigge sent me back to Ayr.

Arnuf quarreled with me there, on the same subject; and I immediately retired in disgust to England." "Then how?
you ought to be Sir Gilbert Hambledon ?" replied Edwin; "but whoever you are, as you were kind to the Lady Marion, I cannot but regret my late hasty charge; and for which I beseech your pardon." Montgomery took his hand, and pressed it.

"Generous Ruthven, your warmth is too honorable to need forgiveness.

I am that Sir Gilbert Hambledon; and had I remained so, I should not now be in Scotland.

But in my first interview with the Prince of Wales, after my accession to the Earldom of Montgomery, his highness told me, it had been rumored from Scotland that I was disloyal in my heart to my king.


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