One word, if I list to speak it, could turn his day of humiliation and fasting into a day of thankfulness and rejoicing, and breaking of bread.

O, I know it by my own heart?
Dearer to me is the child Kenneth, who chaseth the butterfly on the banks of the Aven, than ten sons who are mouldering in earth, or are preyed on by the fowls of the air." "I presume, Ranald," continued Dalgetty, "that the three pretty fellows whom I saw yonder in the market-place, strung up by the head like rizzer'd haddocks, claimed some interest in you ?" There was a brief pause ere the Highlander replied, in a tone of strong emotion,--"They were my sons, stranger--they were my sons!--blood of my blood--bone of my bone!--fleet of foot--unerring in aim--unvanquished by foemen till the sons of Diarmid overcame them by numbers! Why do I wish to survive them?
The old trunk will less feel the rending up of its roots, than it has felt the lopping off of its graceful boughs.

But Kenneth must be trained to revenge--the young eagle must learn from the old how to stoop on his foes.

I will purchase for his sake my life and my freedom, by discovering my secret to the Knight of Ardenvohr." "You may attain your end more easily," said a third voice, mingling in the conference, "by entrusting it to me." All Highlanders are superstitious.

"The Enemy of Mankind is among us!" said Ranald MacEagh, springing to his feet.