His life is forfeit already ; he would boggle at naething ; and maybe , if a tenant-body was to hang back he would get a dirk in his wame . '' `` You make a poor story of it all , Mr. Henderland , '' said I. `` If it is all fear upon both sides , I care to hear no more of it . '' `` Na , '' said Mr. Henderland , `` but there 's love too , and self-denial that should put the like of you and me to shame . There 's something fine about it ; no perhaps Christian , but humanly fine . Even Alan Breck , by all that I hear , is a chield to be respected . There 's many a lying sneck-draw sits close in kirk in our own part of the country , and stands well in the world 's eye , and maybe is a far worse man , Mr. Balfour , than yon misguided shedder of man 's blood . Ay , ay , we might take a lesson by them . -- Ye 'll perhaps think I 've been too long in the Hielands ? '' he added , smiling to me . I told him not at all ; that I had seen much to admire among the Highlanders ; and if he came to that , Mr. Campbell himself was a Highlander . `` Ay , '' said he , `` that 's true . It 's a fine blood . '' `` And what is the King 's agent about ? '' I asked . `` Colin Campbell ? '' says Henderland . `` Putting his head in a bees ' byke ! '' `` He is to turn the tenants out by force , I hear ? '' said I. `` Yes , '' says he , `` but the business has gone back and forth , as folk say . First , James of the Glens rode to Edinburgh , and got some lawyer -LRB- a Stewart , nae doubt -- they all hing together like bats in a steeple -RRB- and had the proceedings stayed .
And then Colin XXXXX cam ' in again , and had the upper-hand before the Barons of Exchequer .
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