I must play the man and bear mine.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place.

What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on.

Besides, at this date I was not beyond asking myself what Wallace would have done and what a Scotsman ought to do.

Of one thing I was sure, he ought never to give up.
One day the chance came.