You own yourself that you have done me a disservice ; I have had to swallow an affront : I have never reproached you , I never named the thing till you did . And now you blame me , '' cried I , `` because I cannae laugh and sing as if I was glad to be affronted . The next thing will be that I 'm to go down upon my knees and thank you for it ! Ye should think more of others , Alan Breck . If ye thought more of others , ye would perhaps speak less about yourself ; and when a friend that likes you very well has passed over an offence without a word , you would be blithe to let it lie , instead of making it a stick to break his back with . By your own way of it , it was you that was to blame ; then it shouldnae be you to seek the quarrel . '' `` Aweel , '' said Alan , `` say nae mair . '' And we fell back into our former silence ; and came to our journey 's end , and supped , and lay down to sleep , without another word . The gillie put us across Loch Rannoch in the dusk of the next day , and gave us his opinion as to our best route . This was to get us up at once into the tops of the mountains : to go round by a circuit , turning the heads of Glen Lyon , Glen Lochay , and Glen Dochart , and come down upon the lowlands by Kippen and the upper waters of the Forth . Alan was little pleased with a route which led us through the country of his blood-foes , the Glenorchy Campbells . He objected that by turning to the east , we should come almost at once among the Athole Stewarts , a race of his own name and lineage , although following a different chief , and come besides by a far easier and swifter way to the place whither we were bound . But the gillie , who was indeed the chief man of Cluny 's scouts , had good reasons to give him on all hands , naming the force of troops in every district , and alleging finally -LRB- as well as I could understand -RRB- that we should nowhere be so little troubled as in a country of the Campbells . Alan gave way at last , but with only half a heart . `` It 's one of the dowiest countries in Scotland , '' said he . `` There 's naething there that I ken , but heath , and crows , and Campbells . But I see that ye 're a man of some penetration ; and be it as ye please ! '' We set forth accordingly by this itinerary ; and for the best part of three nights travelled on eerie mountains and among the well-heads of wild rivers ; often buried in mist , almost continually blown and rained upon , and not once cheered by any glimpse of sunshine . By day , we lay and slept in the drenching heather ; by night , incessantly clambered upon break-neck hills and among rude crags . We often wandered ; we were often so involved in fog , that we must lie quiet till it lightened .
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