Presently when I looked up I saw that the black wrack was clearing from the sky, and through a gap there shone a watery star.
Ringan took stock of our defences, and doled out to each a portion of sodden meat.

Grey had found his breath by this time, and had got a spare musket, for his own had been left in the woods.

Elspeth had had her wits sorely jangled by the storm, and in the revulsion was on the brink of tears.

She was very tender towards Grey's condition, and the sight gave me no jealousy, for in that tense hour all things were forgotten but life and death.

Donaldson, at Ringan's bidding, saw to the feeding of the horses as if he were in his own stable on the Rappahannock.