"They are not the walnuts of my own sunny clime, my lord," said
Louise; "but they hang low, and are within the reach of the poor."

"You shall have something to afford you better fare, poor wandering
ape," said the Duke, in a tone in which feeling predominated more
than in the affected and contemptuous gallantry of his first address
to the glee maiden.

At this moment, as he turned to ask an attendant for his purse,
the Prince encountered the stern and piercing look of a tall black
man, seated on a powerful iron grey horse, who had entered the
court with attendants while the Duke of Rothsay was engaged with
Louise, and now remained stupefied and almost turned to stone by
his surprise and anger at this unseemly spectacle. Even one who had
never seen Archibald Earl of Douglas, called the Grim, must have
known him by his swart complexion, his gigantic frame, his buff
coat of bull's hide, and his air of courage, firmness, and sagacity,
mixed with indomitable pride. The loss of an eye in battle, though
not perceptible at first sight, as the ball of the injured organ
remained similar to the other, gave yet a stern, immovable glare
to the whole aspect.

The meeting of the royal son in law with his terrible stepfather
[father in law] was in circumstances which arrested the attention
of all present; and the bystanders waited the issue with silence
and suppressed breath, lest they should lose any part of what was
to ensue.

When the Duke of Rothsay saw the expression which occupied the
stern features of Douglas, and remarked that the Earl did not make