Highlanders are all gentlemen by birth, and be sure of this, Kit, it's only that breed which can manage boys and soldiers.

But where am I now ?" "With Sandie--I beg his reverence's pardon--with the Rev.the padre of Drumtochty," and Kate went over and sat down beside the General to anticipate any rebellion, for it was a joy to see the warrior turning into a boy before her eyes.

"Well ?" "We had a royal dinner, as it seemed to me.

Sandie has a couple of servants, man and wife, who rule him with a rod of iron, but I would forgive that for the cooking and the loyalty.

After dinner he disappeared with a look of mystery, and came back with a cobwebbed bottle of the old shape, short and bunchy, which he carried as if it were a baby.
"'Just two bottles of my father's port left; we 'll have one to-day to welcome you back, and we 'll keep the other to celebrate your daughter's marriage.' He had one sister, younger by ten years, and her death in girlhood nearly broke his heart.