I must ride to Edinburgh this very day." "I pray you remember that Edinburgh is a turbulent city and little inclined to love your great house.

Is it, think you, wise to go thither with so small a retinue ?" The Earl waved his hand carelessly.
"I am not afraid," he said; "besides, what harm can befall when I lodge in the castle of the Lord Chancellor of Scotland ?" Crichton bowed very low.
"What harm, indeed ?" he said; "I did but advise your lordship to bethink himself.

I am an old man, pray remember--fast growing feeble and naturally inclined to overmuch caution.

But the blood flows hot through the veins of eighteen." Sholto, who knew nothing of these happenings, had just finished exercising his men on the smooth green in front of the Castle of Crichton, and had dismissed them, when a gaberlunzie or privileged beggar, a long lank rascal with a mat of tangled hair, and clad in a cast-off leathern suit which erstwhile some knight had worn under his mail, leaped suddenly from the shelter of a hedge.

Instinctively Sholto laid his hand on his dagger.
"Nay," snuffled the fellow, "I come peaceably.