The cover came to the wayside, and as I passed I was all strung up to meet and to resist an onfall.

No such thing befell, I went by unmeddled with; and at that fear increased upon me.

It was still day indeed, but the place exceeding solitary.

If my haunters had let slip that fair occasion I could but judge they aimed at something more than David Balfour.

The lives of Alan and James weighed upon my spirit with the weight of two grown bullocks.
Catriona was yet in the garden walking by herself.
"Catriona," said I, "you see me back again." "With a changed face," said she.
"I carry two men's lives besides my own," said I."It would be a sin and a shame not to walk carefully.