This is St.Valentine's Day, and by custom I was to spend it with my fair Valentine.

But blows and quarrels have occupied all the morning, save one poor half hour.

Now, you may well understand where my heart and my thoughts are, and where, were it only in mere courtesy, my body ought to be." The glee maiden listened, and appeared to comprehend him.
"If you are a true lover, and have to wait upon a chaste Valentine, God forbid that one like me should make a disturbance between you! Think about me no more.

I will ask of that great river to be my guide to where it meets the ocean, where I think they said there was a seaport; I will sail from thence to La Belle France, and will find myself once more in a country in which the roughest peasant would not wrong the poorest female." "You cannot go to Dundee today," said the smith.

"The Douglas people are in motion on both sides of the river, for the alarm of the morning has reached them ere now; and all this day, and the next, and the whole night which is between, they will gather to their leader's standard, like Highlandmen at the fiery cross.