A golden opportunity of subjecting them to the law had been suffered to escape, and might never return.

If only the Macdonalds would have stood out, nay, if an example could but have been made of the two worst Macdonalds, Keppoch and Glencoe, it would have been something.

But it seemed that even Keppoch and Glencoe, marauders who in any well governed country would have been hanged thirty years before, were safe.

[227] While the Master was brooding over thoughts like these, Argyle brought him some comfort.

The report that Mac Ian had taken the oaths within the prescribed time was erroneous.