AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT When the battle was over, and all things coming into order, the Baron of Bradwardine, returning from the duty of the day, and having disposed those under his command in their proper stations, sought the Chieftain of Glennaquoich and his friend Edward Waverley.

He found the former busied in determining disputes among his clansmen about points of precedence and deeds of valour, besides sundry high and doubtful questions concerning plunder.

The most important of the last respected the property of a gold watch, which had once belonged to some unfortunate English officer.

The party against whom judgement was awarded consoled himself by observing, 'She (i.e.the watch, which he took for a living animal) died the very night Vich Ian Vohr gave her to Murdock;' the machine having, in fact, stopped for want of winding up.
It was just when this important question was decided, that the Baron of Bradwardine, with a careful and yet important expression of countenance, joined the two young men.

He descended from his reeking charger, the care of which he recommended to one of his grooms.