- 2023-12-02the steps again, finding himself now nearly up to his armpits
- 2023-12-02like a moth in a glass ball, finding no way out at all.
- 2023-12-02hold of some wee personal item to be used instead, and
- 2023-12-02“But and whyever else would I be coming to Mac Cailein
- 2023-12-02steps were ahead of him, and then a long brick tunnel in
- 2023-12-02servants. Ahead, the bowed backs graduated in rank, with
- 2023-12-02cried. “I know it’s no right I have to be coming here,
- 2023-12-02Mac Cailein Mor was dragging her out of the room, baying
- 2023-12-02Even as he realized the fact, the quarry vanished, and
- 2023-12-02Once she thought that perhaps if she did kill herself now,
- 2023-12-02sheep or cattle. Fine, that. Women living alone in the
- 2023-12-02quite cocky again. Fine she was now, for who knew more
- 2023-12-02our tents. They were very civil, and offered us a house;
- 2023-12-02mixed. The lonely old woman eagerly drank it in, with exclamations
- 2023-12-02Lord Lorne, and Ewen Cameron, whose red kilt blazed sharply
- 2023-12-02if Mina ever found out, she would put a curse on Wee Mairi.
- 2023-12-02gangway above which lowered a green and rotting wooden
- 2023-12-02“Be ye Covenant here?” she ventured around half a bannock.
- 2023-12-02and I was fool enough to feel sorry for her, and I said
- 2023-12-02another door nearby had opened, and through it came a lad
- 2023-12-02in an iron sluice gate. The Eurasian had passed it, but
- 2023-12-02thought up two stories; one to use on a Campbell or a MacFarlane,
- 2023-12-02even through her terror Kelpie found time to wonder briefly
- 2023-12-02torment was nearly unbearable for an active young gypsy.
- 2023-12-02gruffly, explaining that he had always been fond of the
- 2023-12-02here, for the house of Mac Cailein Mor is surely the most
- 2023-12-02good at all to struggle. Her mind darted here and there,
- 2023-12-02of stone corridors, most of them damp with being underground.
- 2023-12-02might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-02She waded through the dripping tangle of heather and bracken
- 2023-12-02been too strong to be attacked in its own stronghold. Instead,
- 2023-12-02to go out first, it was easy enough for her to slip nearest
- 2023-12-02up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-02It was lucky, she discovered, that himself was home at
- 2023-12-02to run and leap and dance upon the hills, and her face
- 2023-12-02one of plain color, or a black and white shepherd’s tartan.
- 2023-12-02might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-02and she had seen him now and again about the castle. And
- 2023-12-02the wet from her skirts, and started slowly down the hill.
- 2023-12-02another sound at the door. Was it the next day, then, and
- 2023-12-02event in this quiet retired corner of the world; and nearly
- 2023-12-02of them, and himself in particular! Since she couldn’t,
- 2023-12-02it’s hoping I am to serve Mac Cailein Mor,” she finished
- 2023-12-02and Argyll were very little improvement over Mina and Bogle.
- 2023-12-02‘beware’ for nothing.” They were soon anxious for
- 2023-12-02at the thought. Argyll’s God might just do such a thing,
- 2023-12-02was escape, escape from this torment and that to follow.
- 2023-12-02through her mask—not, perhaps, that he knew exactly what
- 2023-12-02At certain seasons they catch also, in “corrales,”
- 2023-12-02“Now,” said Ewen, “be away out of Campbell territory
- 2023-12-02She turned away blindly from the imminent refusal, carefully
- 2023-12-02lilt of his voice. “No one is thinking I know about the
- 2023-12-02He paused for a moment, hoping to be able to lower the
- 2023-12-02Kelpie clenched her fists. We? Then would Mac Cailein Mor
- 2023-12-02her long, sensitive fingers but found it small and solidly
- 2023-12-02castle and out to the courtyard, while Argyll sputtered
- 2023-12-02the light upon them. They led upward. He mounted cautiously,
- 2023-12-02an instant to think as she rose slowly to her feet. “I
- 2023-12-02and Satan’s fire was surely to be preferred—but which
- 2023-12-02have landed at Ardnaburchen and taken the castle of Mingary,
- 2023-12-02innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and
- 2023-12-02Kelpie wasn’t quite sure what that meant, and, even with
- 2023-12-02order to get there without recrossing Campbell territory,
- 2023-12-02it, because for the last hundred years Clan Campbell has
- 2023-12-02forest, and utters very peculiar noises) has not cried
- 2023-12-02with an earnest face. “And that is one reason I was coming
- 2023-12-02Here must be his Lordship’s private withdrawing room.
- 2023-12-02was the most exciting thing that had happened in the braes
- 2023-12-02fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order
- 2023-12-02was escape, escape from this torment and that to follow.
- 2023-12-02chafed at the restrictions of Glenfern, she now realized
- 2023-12-02Kelpie instantly revised her story in the brief time it
- 2023-12-02big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
- 2023-12-02another door nearby had opened, and through it came a lad
- 2023-12-02But she was grateful, for all that. She owed much to his
- 2023-12-02the islands, and at last to Ireland. And now, it seemed,
- 2023-12-02and other comforts. At Caylen, the most southern island,
- 2023-12-02have landed at Ardnaburchen and taken the castle of Mingary,
- 2023-12-02herself when it seemed much easier to do so? Or had she
- 2023-12-02tell me about yourself, little one, for I confess I’ve
- 2023-12-02To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
- 2023-12-02was less marked here, near the Lowlands, and the voice
- 2023-12-02and will even now be taking the keep of Lochaline, your
- 2023-12-02an army for the king and then vanished altogether, and
- 2023-12-02and one man even sent us a cask of cider as a present.
- 2023-12-02to all wings of the castle but that of Mac Cailein Mor.
- 2023-12-02one seemed fixed upon Siubhan or Peigi, the other seemed
- 2023-12-02“Put her in the dungeon,” ordered Argyll, “the wee
- 2023-12-02On went the Eurasian, up to her waist in the flood, with
- 2023-12-02who are not of the Kirk, who blasphemously question the
- 2023-12-02find out as soon as ever she could. When prayers were over,
- 2023-12-02her, Kelpie was cowering on the floor. Even an ordinary
- 2023-12-02fit, often wandering along in the great flower garden that
- 2023-12-02Och, the fine luck of it! Chuckling, she pulled them loose,
- 2023-12-02as quickly as ever you can! Away around the tip of Loch
- 2023-12-02open the door or speak to her until I return. Put bread
- 2023-12-02and other comforts. At Caylen, the most southern island,
- 2023-12-02Och, the fine luck of it! Chuckling, she pulled them loose,
- 2023-12-02took her from Argyll and hustled her brutally through the
- 2023-12-02anyone else, she told herself, but her own freedom mattered
- 2023-12-02the leadership of each to men whom he believed that he
- 2023-12-02to take her in.” He met his sire’s black glare straight.
- 2023-12-02Kelpie glimpsed the full tartan folds of his belted plaid
- 2023-12-02torment was nearly unbearable for an active young gypsy.
- 2023-12-02stars and waiting. He had lain thus and there many nights
- 2023-12-02find out as soon as ever she could. When prayers were over,
- 2023-12-02Some time later a grate in the door opened, a hand pushed
- 2023-12-02sheep or cattle. Fine, that. Women living alone in the
- 2023-12-02and the land was wooded down to the water’s edge. In
- 2023-12-02she was in her own important affairs, suddenly wondered
- 2023-12-02thickly brushed and wooded hills, on an empty stomach,
- 2023-12-02Lord Lorne, son of Argyll—gave a short laugh. “Whatever
- 2023-12-02the great caravan routes entering the Sahara from the south.
- 2023-12-02here, for the house of Mac Cailein Mor is surely the most
- 2023-12-02was under it, but that he knew she was alien to this world
- 2023-12-02Kelpie had hidden a cynical smile at the time, but now,
- 2023-12-02in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective
- 2023-12-02it for a principle you were wanting to put a hex on my
- 2023-12-02had filtered out into the hall, and it didn’t seem to
- 2023-12-02It was in mid-July that it happened, during morning prayer.
- 2023-12-02was anxious to examine a reported coal-mine which turned
- 2023-12-02cast a spell!” He glared at Lorne, and then, dourly,
- 2023-12-02She gritted her teeth, sensing that self-control was her
- 2023-12-02She gritted her teeth, sensing that self-control was her
- 2023-12-02our tents. They were very civil, and offered us a house;
- 2023-12-02who are not of the Kirk, who blasphemously question the
- 2023-12-02not used it because the thing inside her had known that
- 2023-12-02the truth,” she said bluntly, “there is something—I’m
- 2023-12-02mist seemed to float above the water. This mist had a familiar
- 2023-12-02head wonderingly. He was another daft one, to take a risk
- 2023-12-02And so she watched and waited through June, tense, wary,
- 2023-12-02And yet, the thing inside would not let her use the wee
- 2023-12-02wall. He staggered down again; his remarkable physical
- 2023-12-02“Be ye Covenant here?” she ventured around half a bannock.
- 2023-12-02Kelpie didn’t answer this, for the simple reason that
- 2023-12-02Kelpie knelt with the rest of the household on the cold
- 2023-12-02very slowly northward along the trail that connects with
- 2023-12-02the islands, and at last to Ireland. And now, it seemed,
- 2023-12-02possibly Lord Lorne) as the Right Hand of God, fighting
- 2023-12-02he said aloud, and there was no doubt that he meant it
- 2023-12-02in all the finer points of big game hunting. Of an evening
- 2023-12-02Fyne, and then east is best, but be canny. You’ll not
- 2023-12-02There he stood, Mac Cailein Mor, one eye regarding her
- 2023-12-02alien amid all the blue and green of the Campbell tartan.
- 2023-12-02all the inhabitants came down to the beach to see us pitch
- 2023-12-02could be no one else in there, for the entire household
- 2023-12-02to run and leap and dance upon the hills, and her face
- 2023-12-02Mrs. MacKellar far up front, just behind meek Lady Argyll,
- 2023-12-02composed. When we reached Lemuy we had much difficulty
- 2023-12-02an instant to think as she rose slowly to her feet. “I
- 2023-12-02Mor was taking on himself the education of his nephew,
- 2023-12-02English, and Mrs. MacKellar replied in the same tongue.
- 2023-12-02resources were at an end; it must be another's work to
- 2023-12-02and the thin lips were pitiless. For once Kelpie’s quick
- 2023-12-02For nearly the first time in her memory, Kelpie cried.
- 2023-12-02long strands of red hair! Och, and he had been careless,
- 2023-12-02the leadership of each to men whom he believed that he
- 2023-12-02of the Campbells I’ve been. They wanted me to be of the
- 2023-12-02who could surely have nothing to do with the opal world
- 2023-12-02was not at all sure what a principle was. Unless—Could