When, therefore, the Chief of Glencoe made his appearance at the congress in Glenorchy, he was ungraciously received.
The Earl, who ordinarily bore himself with the solemn dignity of a Castilian grandee, forgot, in his resentment, his wonted gravity, forgot his public character, forgot the laws of hospitality, and, with angry reproaches and menaces, demanded reparation for the herds which had been driven from his lands by Mac Ian's followers.

Mac Ian was seriously apprehensive of some personal outrage, and was glad to get safe back to his own glen.

[212] His pride had been wounded; and the promptings of interest concurred with those of pride.

As the head of a people who lived by pillage, he had strong reasons for wishing that the country might continue to be in a perturbed state.

He had little chance of receiving one guinea of the money which was to be distributed among the malecontents.