Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

3 I 6 NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
Dejected and sorrowful, many months passed
away in silence, as necessity alone made her
speak to the wicked wretch who had threatened
her life, and whom she afterwards shuddered
to look at. Her only comfort arose from the
consolations of religion, which, during the
dreadful season of winter that ensued, sup-
ported her broken spirits, while the roaring
ocean, and the hurricanes of the north threat-
ened even the destruction of the rock on which
she was placed. A stranger to the people,
they at first regarded her as an object of
curiosity, for whom they felt no sympathy ;
but when she had been among them for some
months, her manners became affable and agree-
able ; she saw that the hauteur she was accus-
tomed to assume, not only over her lord and
family, but all her dependants, would not suit
the temperament of the Highlanders, and she
was now no less humble in her adversity,
than she had formerly been haughty in pros-
perity.
There were then about two hundred inhabit-
ants on the island, under the austere control of
their laird, who were all enjoined to treat Lady
Grange with indifference, and on no account to
inform her where she was ; so that to the many