Highland Legends

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"They are Lochaber men, I'll warrant me!" said Angus, whose sagacity and acuteness left him seldom mistaken; and guessing shrewdly at the route they would probably take, he reso...

"Let us rid the earth of these carcases!" said Macfarlane after a pause; for now that the keenness of revenge and the exciting eagerness of enterprise had been fully satiated by...

The flames had now spread for miles in every direction over the thickest parts of the forest, rising over the crested ridges and swelling elevations, and diving into the deepest...

"Mr. Russel," cried he, in very correct English, though with a Highland accent, "are you for peace or war? If for war, look to yourself. But if you are for peace and treaty, ord...

"It's an awfu' story," said the landlord, shuddering at the mere recollection of it. "It was at the dead hour o' the night, ye see, whan we war a' sound sleepin' in our beds, we...

Clifford.--No, I promise you you don't get my stories at so very easy a rate; and for this simple reason, that they are by no means so plenty as yours. Besides, I have just been...

"Come, open the door and surrender peaceably," cried the sergeant; "you are the King's lawful recruit. You have been guilty of mutiny and desartion; but if you will surrender at...

"Ha!" cried the laird, as much overcome with surprise at a defeat which he had never before experienced, as he had been by the strength that had produced it. "Thou didst take me...

Invereshie's nurse had early embued his mind with a firm faith in all the wildest of these imaginings, and with him this belief, then so common to all, had grown with his growth...

Things had gone on in this way for months, growing worse and worse every day, when Invereshie, oppressed by that gloom which now clung more frequently and more closely to him, s...

Dominie (with a bow to the speaker).--I am greatly obligated to you for the compliment, sir (then turning to Grant with a more confident and self-satisfied air than he had hithe...

"Oh that your father was but as poor and as humble as mine, Mary!" exclaimed the youth at last, "or, rich and proud as he is, that you could leave him and content yoursel' wi' b...

Adjusting his plaid over her, and placing his arm around her slender waist to support her tottering steps, he guided her homewards by the light of the moon through the rugged mo...

We had no sooner burst from the confinement of the trees, than a wide and extensive and grand prospect opened to us. From the immediate foreground the eye ran gently down some s...

I presume that it is scarcely necessary for me to tell you that Lord Kintail and his lady had a speedy and very anxious consultation together. She was a woman of very superior t...

The lady of Kintail was no sooner informed of the success of her enterprise, than she despatched a quick-sailing boat to the island of Mull to bear the news to her lord. This bo...

Allan of Lundy stood for some moments as if transfixed to the spot. Wheresoever he gazed around him, the glaring eyeballs and the convulsed features of Hector of Beauly still ha...

"I know not what he may have said of thee," answered MacLeod, "but I know that he must have sorely misreported thee, seeing that through certain channels he hath persuaded his M...

It is believed that several centuries have passed away since the Laird of Ballindalloch proposed to build himself a castle or peel-tower for his more secure abode in times when...

Clifford.--Then am I a fool--aw--a--a--to stay here awake doing nothing, when I might go to bed and there so happily continue the sport which you so cruelly interrupted,--aw--a-...

"Uve! uve!" said Ian under his breath; then he moved, hesitated, shrugged his shoulders, looked at the stranger as if he would have penetrated him, plaid and all, to the very so...

"Thy blessing, father! thy blessing!" said she, "we come to crave thy blessing, father! and now," continued she, starting up, "let the feast be prepared!--and the dance!--for Du...

He was no sooner established in his house in town than he set about providing proper instructors for Chirsty, and a very few weeks proved to him that his care was by no means th...

Mr. Gardner, as I shall call the gentleman to whose protection the nabob had consigned Chirsty, well deserved the confidence which had been placed in him. He spoke warmly of the...

And a strange night it was to her. Fatigue brought sleep upon her it is true, but there was no refreshment in it, for it was full of wild visions, and she started from time to t...

It happened that the very next day after this, as Chirsty sat with her eyes cast down on the floor of her cell, some small glittering body attracted her notice, and on stooping...

The stair was included in one of those curious thin round towers which are so frequently seen rising from the side of the doorway of these old Scottish castles, and a small wind...

If you will be pleased to remember, gentlemen, I already told you, that previous to the fourteenth century the whole of Strathspey was subjeck to that great clan or nation the C...

"Then look ye here," said Archy, plucking from his bosom the letter of which he was the bearer, and straightway showing the address, which was--To the honourable and gallant kni...

"Let me fly to him!" exclaimed Bigla, "the moments are most precious;" and throwing her plaid hastily around her, she stole out beyond the barbican; and, having reached the gard...

Dominie.--You will easily persuade him to show them to you; and it will be better for me to leave him to tell his own story about them. But, as I have now made up my mind to go...

When they appeared in church, the grey hairs, and the thin, pale, spiritual countenance of the old priest, were looked up to by his flock with reverential awe, as if he had been...

But strange as it may seem, after the people had been gone for some considerable time in hot search of the felon, Lewis Grant himself rode slowly up to the priest's house. For s...

The small plump of men who had come with Knockando were smothered up, as it were, by the long train of horsemen who now filed up and crowded the confined space formed by the mod...

"After the full and patient probing which we have given to this most mysterious case, it must be clear to all men who do now hear us, that this holy tribunal hath before it, as...