I have forgotten the boy's age; his mother's high-sounding patriotism may have tinctured him already.

Thou smilest." "At thy marvellous good faith in thy wife's _patriotism_, good kinsman--oh, well perchance, like charity, it covereth a multitude of sins." "What meanest thou, my Lord of Fife ?" demanded Buchan, shortly and abruptly, pausing in his walk to face his companion, his suspicious temper instantly aroused by Fife's peculiar tone.

"What wouldst thou insinuate?
Tamper not with me; thou knowest I am no subject for a jest." "I have but to look on thee to know that, my most solemn-visaged brother.

I neither insinuate nor tamper with your lordship.

Simply and heartily I do but give thee joy for thy faith in female patriotism," answered Fife, carelessly, but with an expression of countenance that did not accord with his tone.
"What, in the fiend's name, then, has urged her to this mad act, if it be not what she and others as mad as she call patriotism ?" "May not a lurking affection for the Bruce have given incentive to love of country?
Buchan, of a truth, thou art dull as a sword-blade when plunged in muddy water." "Affection for the Bruce?
Thou art mad as she is, Duncan.