M'Iver

We stood round the doors while M'Iver put back the bars and opened as much as would give entry to one person at a time.

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M'Iver sat down on the wayside and whittled a stick with a pretence at patience I knew he could scarcely feel, for we were fools to be dallying thus on the way in broad morning when we should be harking back to our friends as secretly as the fox.

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M'Iver was with her, and my resolution shrivelled and shook within me like an old nut kernel.

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M'Iver (not to speak of myself) was so manifestly the _duine-uasail_ that the coarsest of the company fell into a polite tone, helped to their manners to some degree no doubt by the example of Montrose and Airlie, who at the earliest moments of our progress walked beside us and discoursed on letters and hunting, and soldiering in the foreign wars.

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"They cannot know of it already in Glencoe!" said M'Iver, appalled.

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I caught M'Iver by the coat-lapels, and took him off the gasping cleric.

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M'Iver and I walked together with the main body, quite free and unfettered, sometimes talking with affability to our captors.

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M'Iver looked at me with a sign of injured vanity.

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"A cool enough reception this," said M'Iver, as we left the gate.

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M'Iver took the place between us, and in the rear, twenty paces, came the _gille cas-fleuch_.

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