"I repeat I have now a scanty number of followers; but I leave these mountains to gather more.
Tell me, then, where I may join these chiefs you speak of.

Give me a pledge that I come from you; and whoever may be your father, as he is a true Scot, I will compass his release, or perish in the attempt." "Alas! generous stranger," cried she, "to what would you persuade me?
You know not the peril that you seek!" "Nothing is perilous to me," replied he, with an heroic smile, "that is to serve my country.

I have no interest, no joy but in her.

Give me, then, the only happiness of which I am now capable, and send me to serve her, by freeing one of her defenders!" Helen hesitated.

The tumult of her mind dried her tears.