"Will you give orders to render the castle, or must I ?" "No, villain!" interrupted the knight, "to the last I will command you.
Open the gates, drop the bridge, and render the castle to the Douglas." "Now, that's what may be called a gallant exertion of free will," said Dwining.

"Just as if the pieces of brass that were screaming a minute since should pretend to call those notes their own which are breathed through them by a frowsy trumpeter." "Wretched man!" said Catharine, "either be silent or turn thy thoughts to the eternity on the brink of which thou art standing." "And what is that to thee ?" answered Dwining.

"Thou canst not, wench, help hearing what I say to thee, and thou wilt tell it again, for thy sex cannot help that either.

Perth and all Scotland shall know what a man they have lost in Henbane Dwining!" The clash of armour now announced that the newcomers had dismounted and entered the castle, and were in the act of disarming the small garrison.
Earl Douglas himself appeared on the battlements, with a few of his followers, and signed to them to take Ramorny and Dwining into custody.
Others dragged from some nook the stupefied Bonthron.
"It was to these three that the custody of the Prince was solely committed daring his alleged illness ?" said the Douglas, prosecuting an inquiry which he had commenced in the hall of the castle.
"No other saw him, my lord," said Eviot, "though I offered my services." "Conduct us to the Duke's apartment, and bring the prisoners with us.

Also should there be a female in the castle, if she hath not been murdered or spirited away--the companion of the glee maiden who brought the first alarm." "She is here, my lord," said Eviot, bringing Catharine forward.
Her beauty and her agitation made some impression even upon the impassible Earl.
"Fear nothing, maiden," he said; "thou hast deserved both praise and reward.