Whatever pain she had caused him, she meant to make up to him with usury thereto.

The others she had exercised no more for her own amusement than for their own souls' good.
"My brother William must indeed be very angry with us, that he hath never sent to find us and bring us home," went on the little girl.

"It is three months since we met that horrible old woman in the woods above Thrieve Island, and believed her when she told us that the Earl had instant need of us--and that Sholto MacKim was with him." "None saw us taken away.

Margaret," said the elder, "and perhaps, who knows, they may never have found any of the pieces of flower garlands I threw down before they put us in the boats from the beach of Cassencary." But the eyes of the little Maid of Galloway were now fixed upon something in the green courtyard below.
"Maud, Maud, come hither quickly!" she whispered; "if yonder be not Laurence MacKim talking to the singing lads and dressed like them--why, then, I do not know Laurie MacKim!" Maud came quickly now.

Her face and neck blushed suddenly crimson with the springing of hope in her heart.
She looked down, and there, far below them indeed, but yet distinct enough, they saw Laurence daring Blaise Renouf to single combat and vaunting his Irish prowess, as we have already seen him do.