take them at my hand, and may your last moments be as happy as mine!"
As he spoke thus, with a countenance radiant with joy and triumph, he was withdrawn by those who had brought him into the apartment, and executed within half an hour, dying with the same enthusiastic firmness which his whole life had evinced.
The council broke up, and Morton found himself again in the carriage with General Grahame.
"Marvellous firmness and gallantry" said Morton, as he reflected upon Macbriar's conduct; "what a pity it is that with such self-devotion and heroism should have been mingled the fiercer features of his sect!"
"You mean," said Claverhouse, "his resolution to condemn you to death?—to that he would have reconciled himself by a single-text; for example, 'And Phineas arose and executed judgment,' or something to the same purpose—But wot ye where you are now bound, Mr Morton?"
