The old woman welcomed him with her usual cordiality, but not her usual cheerfulness: he had scarcely noted since her husband's death any change on her manner till now: she looked weary of the world. She turned instantly away, and left the room: he could not help seeing why. "I thought of putting up there, but I will do as my lady pleases."ĭonal went, and the first person he saw when he entered the house was Eppy. "Weel, ye can gang but min' ye're hame i' gude time!" "I was only going as far as mistress Comin's," replied Donal. "Wha daur meddle wi' ye, an' me i' the hoose! An' wha kens what the mad yerl, for mad I s' uphaud him, an' fit only to be lockit up-wha kens what he may do neist! Maister Grant, I can not lat ye oot o' the hoose." "Noo ye can bide whaur ye are, an' be thankfu'!" said mistress Brookes. "Now I can leave you in peace, my lady!" said Donal, who had not resumed his seat. There was no end to her objurgations, exclamations, anathemas, and interjections. "Is my leddy safe?" she cried-then clasped Donal in her arms and embraced him as if he had been her son.įrom the moment she discovered herself fooled, she had been imagining all manner of terrible things-yet none so terrible as the truth. Donal ran to see, and to his great delight, there was mistress Brookes, half wild with anxious terror. THE same afternoon, while Donal was reading to Arctura in the library, there came a loud ringing of the door-bell.
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