Keppoch threatened and blustered.

He would come in with all his men.

He would sack the place.

The burghers meanwhile mustered in arms round the market cross to listen to the oratory of their ministers.

The day closed without an assault; the Monday and the Tuesday passed away in intense anxiety; and then an unexpected mediator made his appearance.
Dundee, after his flight from Edinburgh, had retired to his country seat in that valley through which the Glamis descends to the ancient castle of Macbeth.