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A Legend of Montrose-Part43_WALTER SCOTT(1771-1832)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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to cross Lochfine, it is supposed they dogged his course, and

that he perished by their hand in some obscure wilderness.



Another opinion maintains, that Allan M'Aulay went abroad and

died a monk of the Carthusian order. But nothing beyond bare



presumption could ever be brought in support of either opinion.

His vengeance was much less complete than he probably fancied;



for Menteith, though so severely wounded as to remain long in a

dangerous state, was, by having adopted Major Dalgetty's



fortunate recommendation of a cuirass as a bridal-garment,

happily secured from the worst consequences of the blow. But his



services were lost to Montrose; and it was thought best, that he

should be conveyed with his intended countess, now truly a



mourning bride, and should accompany his wounded father-in-law to

the castle of Sir Duncan at Ardenvohr. Dalgetty followed them to



the water's edge, reminding Menteith of the necessity of erecting

a sconce on Drumsnab to cover his lady's newly-acquired



inheritance.

They performed their voyage in safety, and Menteith was in a few



weeks so well in health, as to be united to Annot in the castle

of her father.



The Highlanders were somewhat puzzled to reconcile Menteith's

recovery with the visions of the second sight, and the more



experienced Seers were displeased with him for not having died.

But others thought the credit of the visionsufficiently



fulfilled, by the wound inflicted by the hand, and with the

weapon, foretold; and all were of opinion, that the incident of



the ring, with the death's head, related to the death of the

bride's father, who did not survive her marriage many months.



The incredulous held, that all this was idle dreaming, and that

Allan's supposedvision was but a consequence of the private



suggestions of his own passion, which, having long seen in

Menteith a rival more beloved than himself, struggled with his



better nature, and impressed upon him, as it were involuntarily,

the idea of killing his competitor.



Menteith did not recover sufficiently to join Montrose during his

brief and gloriouscareer; and when that heroic general disbanded



his army and retired from Scotland, Menteith resolved to adopt

the life of privacy, which he led till the Restoration. After



that happy event, he occupied a situation in the land befitting

his rank, lived long, happy alike in public regard and in



domestic affection, and died at a good old age.

Our DRAMATIS PERSONAE have been so limited, that, excepting



Montrose, whose exploits and fate are the theme of history, we

have only to mention Sir Dugald Dalgetty. This gentleman



continued, with the most rigorous punctuality, to discharge his

duty, and to receive his pay, until he was made prisoner, among



others, upon the field of Philiphaugh. He was condemned to share

the fate of his fellow-officers upon that occasion, who were



doomed to death rather by denunciations from the pulpit, than the

sentence either of civil or military tribunal; their blood being



considered as a sort of sin-offering to take away the guilt of

the land, and the fate imposed upon the Canaanites, under a



special dispensation, being impiously and cruellyapplied to

them.



Several Lowland officers, in the service of the Covenanters,

interceded for Dalgetty on this occasion, representing him as a



person whose skill would be useful in their army, and who would

be readily induced to change his service. But on this point they



found Sir Dugald unexpectedlyobstinate. He had engaged with the

King for a certain term, and, till that was expired, his



principles would not permit any shadow of changing. The

Covenanters, again, understood no such nice distinction, and he



was in the utmost danger of falling a martyr, not to this or that

political principle, but merely to his own strict ideas of a






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