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 brother has taken charge of our garrison, and, by the grace of God, we will give the rebels such a reception as they deserve."

"How gladly," said Evandale, " would I share in the defence of the Castle! But, in my present state, I should be but a burden to you, nay, something worse; for the knowledge that an officer of the Life-Guards was in the Castle would be sufficient to make these rogues more desperately earnest to possess themselves of it. If they find it defended only by the family, they may possibly march on to Glasgow rather than hazard an assault."

"And can you think so meanly of us, my Lord," said Edith, with the generous burst of feeling which woman so often evinces, and which becomes her so well, her voice faultering through eagerness, and her brow colouring with the noble warmth which dictated her language—" Can you think so meanly of your friends, as that they would permit such considerations to interfere with their sheltering and protecting