"Oh, wherefore bring them here, my friend ?" "Wherefore, lady ?" readily and impetuously answered Alan; "art thou a friend of Isabella of Buchan, and asketh wherefore?
Where our sovereign is, should not his subjects be ?" "Thy mother's friend and sovereign's sister, noble boy, and yet I grieve to see thee here.

The Bruce is but in name a king, uncrowned as yet and unanointed.

His kingdom bounded by the confines of this one fair county, struggling for every acre at the bright sword's point." "The greater glory for his subjects, lady," answered the youth.

"The very act of proclaiming himself king removes the chains of Scotland, and flings down her gage.

Fear not, he shall be king ere long in something more than name." "And is it thus a Comyn speaks ?" said the Lady Campbell.