Oh, d'ye ken, sir, when he is to suffer ?' 'Suffer! Good heaven!--Why, where is he ?' 'Eh, Lord's sake! d'ye no ken?
The poor Hieland body, Dugald Mahoney, cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and a sair clour in the head--ye'll mind Dugald?
he carried aye an axe on his shouther--and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for something to eat.

Aweel, he tauld us the Chief, as they ca'd him (but I aye ca' him the Colonel), and Ensign Maccombich, that ye mind weel, were ta'en somewhere beside the English border, when it was sae dark that his folk never missed him till it was ower late, and they were like to gang clean daft.

And he said that little Callum Beg (he was a bauld mischievous callant that), and your honour, were killed that same night in the tuilzie, and mony mae braw men.

But he grat when he spak o' the Colonel, ye never saw tie like.

And now the word gangs, the Colonel is to be tried, and to suffer wi' them that were ta'en at Carlisle.' 'And his sister ?' 'Aye, that they ca'd the Lady Flora--weel, she's away up to Carlisle to him, and lives wi' some grand Papist lady thereabouts, to be near him.' 'And,' said Edward, 'the other young lady ?' 'Whilk other?
I ken only of ae sister the Colonel had.' 'I mean Miss Bradwardine,' said Edward.
'Ou aye, the laird's daughter,' said his landlady.