The ruffians, satisfied with this savage triumph, withdrew.

The terrified menials, after overcoming the alarm to which they had been subjected, sought their unfortunate mistress in every direction, but she was nowhere to be found.

The miserable husband returned next day, and, with the assistance of his people, undertook a more anxious and distant search, but to equally little purpose.

It was believed universally, that, in the ecstasy of her terror, she must either have thrown herself over one of the numerous precipices which overhang the river, or into a deep lake about a mile from the castle.
Her loss was the more lamented, as she was six months advanced in her pregnancy; Angus M'Aulay, her eldest son, having been born about eighteen months before .-- But I tire you, Captain Dalgetty, and you seem inclined to sleep." "By no means," answered the soldier; "I am no whit somnolent; I always hear best with my eyes shut.

It is a fashion I learned when I stood sentinel." "And I daresay," said Lord Menteith, aside to Anderson, "the weight of the halberd of the sergeant of the rounds often made him open them." Being apparently, however, in the humour of story-telling, the young nobleman went on, addressing himself chiefly to his servants, without minding the slumbering veteran.
"Every baron in the country," said he, "now swore revenge for this dreadful crime.