We may mourn for it, but we cannot help it.

Bonnet, broadsword, and sporran--power, strength, and wealth, were all lost on Drummossie Muir." "It is false!" said Elspat, fiercely; "you and such like dastardly spirits are quelled by your own faint hearts, not by the strength of the enemy; you are like the fearful waterfowl, to whom the least cloud in the sky seems the shadow of the eagle." "Mother," said Hamish proudly, "lay not faint heart to my charge.

I go where men are wanted who have strong arms and bold hearts too.

I leave a desert, for a land where I may gather fame." "And you leave your mother to perish in want, age, and solitude," said Elspat, essaying successively every means of moving a resolution which she began to see was more deeply rooted than she had at first thought.
"Not so, neither," he answered; "I leave you to comfort and certainty, which you have yet never known.

Barcaldine's son is made a leader, and with him I have enrolled myself.