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Her new clothes did not trouble her; she was hardly conscious of wearing them, and quite able to give her usual solemn and fixed attention to the services of the sanctuary. "Where are you going, daughter?" Mr. Dinsmore asked, as Elsie gently withdrew her hand from his on leaving the dining-room. "To my room, papa," she replied. "Come with me," he said; "I want you."
"A good and most entertaining place for the study of mankind," as Mr. Dinsmore remarked. As they entered it the sound of the sweetly piercing music of a bagpipe smote upon their ears. "Ah," exclaimed Mr. Lilburn, "that sound is sweetly homelike to my ear. Let us see, my friends, to what sight it summons us." "The Beauty Show, sir," said Herbert.
That note you burned was only a copy! I have the original with me." "You treacherous rascal!" exclaimed the squire, in great excitement. "When I have dealings with a knave I am not very scrupulous," said Dinsmore coolly. "I won't pay the note you have trumped up. This is a conspiracy." "Then," said Ben, "the note will be placed in the hands of a lawyer."
"I wouldn't be his child for all her money," said Enna. "There would be some fighting if you were," said her father, laughing. "I never could tell whether he tyrannized over Rose in the same style or not," observed Mrs. Dinsmore interrogatively.
"It's an old trick of my age, that increases with my advancing youth, till I sometimes wonder what I'm coming to; the words will tangle themselves up in the most troublesome fashion; but if you know what I mean, I suppose it's all the same." "Why, Aunt Wealthy, this is really beautiful," said Mr. Dinsmore, stepping from the chair with the basket, in his hand.
As he spoke, Grace came running out and joined them, wearing a very bright, happy face. "Oh, Grandma Elsie, and everybody, I'm just as glad as I can be!" she cried. "I don't have to go to school, because mamma is so kind; she says she will teach me at home." While the others were expressing their sympathy in her happiness, Mr. Dinsmore joined them. "Here are letters," he said.
"Heah, massa cap'n!" answered Solon close it hand. "Ise brung it jus' in time." "What can you do with a rope, Raymond?" asked Donald. "Make an effort to save her with the help of that lightning-rod." "You risk your own life, and it is worth far more than hers," Donald said entreatingly. "Stay a moment, captain," said Mr. Dinsmore, "they are bringing a ladder."
"But aside from that consideration it would be a dreadful thing for you to come to a collision; and I shall certainly do what I can to prevent it." In pursuance of that end she presently went in search of her mother and grandfather. She found them and Mrs. Dinsmore seated together on the lawn; the ladies busied with, their needlework, Mr. Dinsmore reading aloud.
These conditions the captain gladly accepted. He told the children all about the arrangement he had made for them, and in the presence of the whole family, bade them obey Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore, Grandma Elsie and Mamma Vi as they would himself. "One master and three mistresses!" Edward remarked lightly; "are you not imposing rather hard conditions, Captain?"
"I shall try to suspend my judgment for your sake, daughter," Mr. Dinsmore answered, stroking her hair caressingly, "but I cannot help feeling that Edward seems to have strangely failed in the loving respect and obedience he should have shown to such a mother as his. He has taken very prompt advantage of his arrival at his majority."
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