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The answer of Montgomery could not but refer to the same subject, and
by presenting the tender form of his wife and her devoted love, almost
visibly again before her widowed husband, nearly forced open the
fountain of tears which he had buried deep in his heart; and rising
suddenly, for fear his emotions might betray themselves, he warmly
pressed the hand of his English friend, and left the room.
In the course of the same day the Southron nobles were transported into
the citadel, and the family of Mar removed from the fortress, to take
up their residence in the palace of Snawdoun.
Chapter XXXVI.
The Carse of Stirling.
The fame of these victories, the seizure of Stirling, the conquest of
above sixty thousand men, and the lord warden with his late deputy
taken prisoners, all spread through the country on the wings of the
wind.
Messengers were dispatched by Wallace, not only to the nobles who had
already declared for the cause by sending him their armed followers,
but to the clans who yet stood irresolute. To the chiefs who had taken
the side of Edward, he sent no exhortation. And when Lord Ruthven
advised him to do so, "No, my lord," said he, "we must not spread a
snare under our country, and as they had the power to befriend her,
they would not have colleagued with her enemies.
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