I walked about and waited fu' an hour before his lairdship cam' till me." "At what hour was that ?" "I heard the castle clock aboon Auld Malcom's Tower strike eleven when I cam' under the balcony o' the bride's chamber, whilk is nigh it.

I waited fu' half an hour there before his lairdship cam' stealing through the shrubbery--De'il hae him, wha ha brocht a' this trouble on me!" exclaimed the witness, vehemently, as her eyes, fairly blazing with blue fire, fixed themselves on the face of the young duke.
The Duke of Hereward bore the searching glare quite calmly.

He simply leaned back in his chair, with folded arms and attentive face, on which curiosity was the only expression.
"Mr.Keir," said the venerable Counsellor Guthrie, of the defence, "is all this supposed to concern the case before the jury ?" "Ay, does it!" cried Rose Cameron, before the lawyer addressed could reply.

"Ay, does it, as ye will sune see, gin ye will gie me leave to speak." Meanwhile the Duke of Hereward took out his note-book and wrote these lines: "_Pray let the witness proceed without regard to her use of my name.
I think the ends of justice require that she be suffered to give her testimony in her own way_.

HEREWARD." He tore this leaf out and passed it on to Mr.Guthrie, who read it with some surprise, and then waved his hand to Mr.Keir, and sat down with the air of a man who had complied with an indiscreet request, and washed his hands of the consequences.
"The time of the court is being unnecessarily wasted.