Crossword-Solution: CROZER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Heathercat indeed!’ said Crozer, for among this infantile army of spies and messengers, the fame of Crozer had gone forth and was resented by his rivals.

Arnot, ‘“Like honey from the honeycomb That dreepeth, sweeter far.”’ My lady was now fairly launched, and that upon two congenial subjects: the deficiencies of the Lady Whitecross and the turpitudes of the whole Crozer race—which, indeed, had never been conspicuous for respectability.

Courage was uppermost during the singing, which he accompanied through all its length with this impromptu strain: ‘And I will ding Jock Crozer down No later than the day.’ Presently the voice of the preacher came to him in wafts, at the wind’s will, as by the opening and shutting of a door; wild spasms of screaming, as of some undiscerned gigantic hill-bird stirred with inordinate passion, succeeded to intervals of silence; and Francie heard them with a critical ear.

Was it possible that Crozer could have boasted? that there were rumours abroad to his—Heathercat’s—discredit? that his honour was publicly sullied? All the world went dark about him at the thought; he sank without a struggle into the midnight pool of despair; and every time he so sank, he brought back with him—not drowned heroism indeed, but half-drowned courage by the locks.

Something pulled him back, and it was not the sense of duty, but a remembrance of Crozer’s build and hateful readiness of fist.