And it came in my mind that Alan , on the day of that battle , had been engaged upon the royal side . `` Why do ye take that air , Mr. Stewart ? '' said I. `` Is that to remind me you have been beaten on both sides ? '' The air stopped on Alan 's lips . `` David ! '' said he . `` But it 's time these manners ceased , '' I continued ; `` and I mean you shall henceforth speak civilly of my King and my good friends the Campbells . '' `` I am a Stewart -- '' began Alan . `` O ! '' says I , `` I ken ye bear a king 's name . But you are to remember , since I have been in the Highlands , I have seen a good many of those that bear it ; and the best I can say of them is this , that they would be none the worse of washing . '' `` Do you know that you insult me ? '' said Alan , very low . `` I am sorry for that , '' said I , `` for I am not done ; and if you distaste the sermon , I doubt the pirliecue * will please you as little . You have been chased in the field by the grown men of my party ; it seems a poor kind of pleasure to out-face a boy . Both the Campbells and the Whigs have beaten you ; you have run before them like a hare . It behoves you to speak of them as of your betters . '' * A second sermon . Alan stood quite still , the tails of his great-coat clapping behind him in the wind . `` This is a pity , '' he said at last .
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