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I picked a spray of rosy bell-heather from the bank of the river, and pressed it between the leaves of the book in memory of Sheila. It is not half as far from Albany to Aberdeen as it is from New York to London. In fact, I venture to say that an American on foot will find himself less a foreigner in Scotland than in any other country in the Old World.
Will you wander with me through the fields where the blue-fringed gentian blooms with the pink bell-heather, and the bridal torch nods from the brook-side, bending its stately head to the west wind that sweeps ever in from the sea with touch as soft as of a woman's hand? Flat and uninteresting? Yes, if you will. If one sees only the fields.
"Ye'll pe seein' her for yourself whateffer," he said "Ye'll no miss her in the waters 'twixt here an' Skye." He stooped and fumbled in his basket, presently bringing out of it a small bunch of pink bell-heather, the delicate waxen type of blossom which is found only in mossy, marshy places. "The shentleman wanted as much as I could find o' this," he said "An' he had it a' but this wee bittie.
'Lilies of the valley. Althea spoke kindly, as she might have spoken to a rather importunate child; his questions, indeed, were not original. Gerald tried to mend the tameness of the effect that he was making. 'Yes, only the florists have rather spoiled them, haven't they? My favourites are the wilder ones honeysuckle, grass of Parnassus, bell-heather.
It was Sheila's low sweet brow, and long black eyelashes, and tender blue eyes, that we saw before us as we loitered over the open moorland, a far-rolling sea of brown billows, reddened with patches of bell-heather, and brightened here and there with little lakes lying wide open to the sky.
Bourgoin, her physician, who was eager to investigate the curiosity, and make it a subject of debate with Dr. Jones. The path was a beautiful one, through rocks and brushwood, mountain ash bushes showing their coral berries amid their feathery leaves, golden and white stars of stonecrop studding every coign of vantage, and in more level spots the waxy bell-heather beginning to come into blossom.
Helen always makes me think of grass of Parnassus and bell-heather, she is so solitary and delicate and strong. He wanted Althea to realise that his real appreciation was for types very different from Lady Pickering. She smiled kindly, as if pleased with his simile, and he went on. 'You are like pansies, white and purple pansies. It was then that Althea blushed. Gerald noticed it at once.
It was helped, perhaps, in a trifling way by the apparently fadeless quality of the pink bell-heather which had been given me by the weird-looking Highland fellow who called himself Jamie, for though three or four days had now passed since I first wore it, it showed no signs of withering.
He saw her drifting desultorily under the high hedge, advancing towards him slowly. He did not move, he did not look again. He was as if asleep, at peace, slumbering and utterly relaxed. She came up and stood before him, hanging her head. 'See what a flower I found you, she said, wistfully holding a piece of purple-red bell-heather under his face.
But as he watched her he caught sight of some other figures, farther below on the rocks. And then he perceived as he saw her return with a handful of bell-heather that this party had come from Iona, or Bunessan, or some such place, to explore one of the great caves on this coast, while this lady had wandered away from them in search of some wild flowers.
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