Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

306 NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
barbarous treatment, suffering much from cold
and hunger. Indeed so miserable was her
situation, that for ten months she did not taste
bread, but lived on the coarse fare of Mac-
donald's family, who were ordered to treat her
exactly as one of themselves. After remaining
in his custody for twelve months, she became
much in want of every article of dress, and
remonstrated with him on his cruelty, in thus
depriving her of the common comforts of life ;
but he declared that he was not to blame for
her being so treated, and said that he had often
written to those from whom he received her in
charge, but that they had made him no answer.
Though of rude and unpolished deportment,
this man and his wife readily perceived that
lady Grange was born to better fortune, and
that they had no means of affording the essential
articles of apparel which she required. Mac-
donald now resolved to wait on his employers,
as he would no longer be accessory to such in-
humanity, and accordingly set out for the isle
of Skye, where Sir Alexander Macdonald re-
sided.
On his return, he said that the knight had
expressed contrition for having ever meddled
in such an affair, and wished to get clear of it,