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With careless gesture, mind unmoved,
On rade he north the plain,
His seem in thrang of fiercest strife1,
When winner aye the same.
Hardyknute.
Colonel Grahame of Claverhouse met the family, assembled in the hall of the Tower, with the same serenity2 and the same courtesy which had graced his manners in the morning. He had even had the composure to rectify3 in part the derangement4 of his dress, to wash the signs of battle from his face and hands, and did not appear more disordered in his exterior5 than if returned from a morning ride.
“I am grieved, Colonel Grahame,” said the reverend old lady, the tears trickling6 down her face, “deeply grieved.”
“And I am grieved, my dear Lady Margaret,” replied Claverhouse, “that this misfortune may render your remaining at Tillietudlem dangerous for you, especially considering your recent hospitality to the King’s troops, and your well-known loyalty7. And I came here chiefly to request Miss Bellenden and you to accept my escort (if you will not scorn that of a poor runaway) to Glasgow, from whence I will see you safely sent either to Edinburgh or to Dunbarton Castle, as you shall think best.”
“I am much obliged to you, Colonel Grahame,” replied Lady Margaret; “but my brother, Major Bellenden, has taken on him the responsibility of holding out this house against the rebels; and, please God, they shall never drive Margaret Bellenden from her ain hearth-stane while there’s a brave man that says he can defend it.”
“And will Major Bellenden undertake this?” said Claverhouse hastily, a joyful9 light glancing from his dark eye as he turned it on the veteran — “Yet why should I question it? it is of a piece with the rest of his life. — But have you the means, Major?”
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eldest
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cowardice
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distress
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covenanted
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militia
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