He fled, and he was silent, like a beast; and this silence had terrified his pursuer.
There was something heart-breaking in the situation.

How to capture the madman, how to feed him in the meanwhile, and what to do with him when he was captured, were the three difficulties that we had to solve.
'The black,' said I, 'is the cause of this attack.

It may even be his presence in the house that keeps my uncle on the hill.

We have done the fair thing; he has been fed and warmed under this roof; now I propose that Rorie put him across the bay in the coble, and take him through the Ross as far as Grisapol.' In this proposal Mary heartily concurred; and bidding the black follow us, we all three descended to the pier.

Certainly, Heaven's will was declared against Gordon Darnaway; a thing had happened, never paralleled before in Aros; during the storm, the coble had broken loose, and, striking on the rough splinters of the pier, now lay in four feet of water with one side stove in.