'But you shan't go on this way.

If my Nelly's good enough to talk to in the glen, she's good enough to lead into the hall before the ladies and gentlemen.' "Then Allister's face grew redder still, but not with anger, and he held down his head before the old man, but only for a few moments.
When he lifted it again, it was pale, not with fear but with resolution, for he had made up his mind like a gentleman.

'Mr.Angus MacQueen,' he said, 'will you give me your daughter to be my wife ?' 'If you kill the kelpie, I will,' answered Angus; for he knew that the man who could do that would be worthy of his Nelly." "But what if the kelpie ate him ?" suggested Allister.
"Then he'd have to go without the girl," said Kirsty, coolly.

"But," she resumed, "there's always some way of doing a difficult thing; and Allister, the gentleman, had Angus, the shepherd, to teach him.
"So Angus took Allister down to the pot, and there they began.

They tumbled great stones together, and set them up in two rows at a little distance from each other, making a lane between the rows big enough for the kelpie to walk in.