He gave to each
leader his plan of attack; and having placed Bruce with Graham in the
van, before he took his station at its head, he retired to the ruins
near Dunipacis, to visit the mourning solitude of Murray. He found the
pious son sitting silent and motionless by the side of his dead parent.
Without rousing the violence of grief by any reference to the sight
before him, Wallace briefly communicated his project. Lord Andrew
started to his feet. "I will share all the peril with you! I shall
again grapple with the foe that has thus bereaved me! This dark
mantle," cried he, turning toward the breathless corpse, and throwing
his plaid over it, "will shroud thy hallowed remains till I return. I
go where thou wouldst direct me. Oh, my father!" exclaimed he, in a
burst of grief, "the trumpet shall sound, and thou wilt not hear! But
I go to take vengeance for thy blood!" So saying, he sprung from the
place, and accompanying Wallace to the plain, took his station in the
silent but swiftly moving army.
Chapter LIV.
Carron Banks.
The troops of King Edward lay overpowered with wine. Elated with
victory, they had drunk largely, the royal pavilion setting them the
example; for though Edward was temperate, yet, to flatter his recovered
friends, the inordinate Buchan and Soulis, he had allowed a greater
excess that night than he was accustomed to sanction.
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