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A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.




Chapter I.

———— In a rebellion,
When what's not meet, but what must be, was a
Then were they chosen; in a better hour,
Let what is meet be said it must be meet.
And throw their power i'the dust.

Coriolanus.


In a small apartment, remote from the rest of the guests assembled at the castle, Sir Duncan Campbell was presented with every species of refreshment, and respectfully at- tended by Lord Menteith, and by Allan M'Aulay. His discourse with the latter turned upon a sort of hunting campaign, in which they had been engaged together against the Children of the Mist, with