"
"Then, if he had joined us," replied Murray, rising from his seat, "you
will probably soon known who he is. To-morrow morning Sir William
Wallace will enter the citadel, attended by his principal knights; and
in that gallant company you must doubtless discover the man who had
laid such obligations on us all by your preservation."
Murray's feelings told him that glad should he be, if the utterance of
that obligation would repay it!
Helen herself knew not how to account for the agitation which shook her
whenever she adverted to her unknown preserver. At the time of the
hermit's friend (the good lay brother), having brought her to Alloa,
when she explained to Lady Ruthven the cause of her strange arrival,
she had then told her story with composure, till she mentioned her
deliverer; but in that moment, for the first time she felt a confusion
which disordered the animation with which she described his patriotism
and his bravery. But it was natural, she thought, that gratitude for a
recent benefit should make her heart beat high. It was something like
the enthusiasm she had felt for Wallace on the rescue of her father,
and she was satisfied.
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