An appeal to muscular sense.

16. In that hip-wound he had for Jamie’s sake

That “hip-wound” brings back the desire for revenge, a close association of ideas. Have you had such experiences?

19. Was turned again with every puckering twinge.

“Puckering twinge,” another appeal to muscular sense.

20. Far down the vale a narrow winding fringe etc.

Having passed the divide Hugh slept at the head of a valley that farther down becomes the bed of a little creek flowing into the Moreau.

Define: mesh, trammelled, puckering, betokened.

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6. These two, as comrades, struggled south together—