You love this new-found lady,--your affection is returned.

In point of birth, no exceptions can be made; in every other respect, her advantages are equal to those which you yourself possess--think, however, a moment.

Sir Duncan is a fanatic--Presbyterian, at least--in arms against the King; he is only with us in the quality of a prisoner, and we are, I fear, but at the commencement of a long civil war.

Is this a time, think you, Menteith, for you to make proposals for his heiress?
Or what chance is there that he will now listen to it ?" Passion, an ingenious, as well as an eloquent advocate, supplied the young nobleman with a thousand answers to these objections.

He reminded Montrose that the Knight of Ardenvohr was neither a bigot in politics nor religion.