Explore "Lady Kilpatrick" by Robert W. Buchanan on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
It was not till Blake was half-way on the road to Maguire's cottage that the personal significance to himself of the errand with which Peebles had entrusted him dawned upon him. His first impulse was to tell the driver to return to the Castle, and to request Peebles to find another messenger.
‘By the Saints, but 'tis a fine business I'm in for -- a two-mile ride with Moya Macartney and Desmond -- and 'tis a comfortable quarter of an hour I'll be after having.'