He mentioned that one or two godly ministers from London were present in the capital.

I replied that I was well aware of that, but that, as these men were not favored with the instructions of the convention, and knew not the exact turn which affairs had taken up to the period of my leaving, their presence might be an embarrassment--which, indeed, was only the truth." "We must make a circuit to-morrow," Harry said, "to avoid Stirling, and will go round by Doune, and thence make for the north.

Once among the mountains we shall be safe from all pursuit, and from any interference by the Roundheads, for I believe that the clans of this part are all in favor of Montrose--Argyll's power lying far to the west." "It will be a comfort," Jacob said, "not to be obliged to talk through one's nose, and to cast one's eyes upward.

I imagine that these Highlanders are little better than savages." "That is so," Harry said.

"They are, I believe, but little changed since the days when the Romans struggled with them, and could make no head north of the Forth." The next day, by a long circuit, they traveled round Stirling, and reached the bridge of Doune, there crossing the Teith unquestioned.