It was of Calidon that David thought as he took the hill . Nicholas Hawkshaw , lame as he was , had gone back to the wars . What wars ? Remembering the talk of that autumn night he feared that it could not be a campaign of which a minister of the Kirk would approve .
Именно о Калидоне думал Давид, взбираясь на холм. Николас Хокшоу, каким бы хромым он ни был, вернулся на войну. Какие войны? Вспоминая разговоры той осенней ночи, он опасался, что эту кампанию не одобрит министр Кирка.