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If she's not down before Saturday, I'll go up and speak to her. She'll surely know of something that I can do." Mrs Stirling's cottage stood not far from the high-road that leads to Dunmoor, at the distance of a mile and a half from Kirklands.
But it was not the same to Lilias as sitting in her father's seat, and listening to the voice of her father's friend; and the getting back to the dear old kirk at Dunmoor was always told over as one of the pleasant things which the spring would bring back again. At Christmas-time there came a new scholar to the school, and no small stir did her coming make there.
Hugh and Archie went over the hills to the kirk at Dunmoor that day; but Lilias dreaded the long walk a little, and she dreaded a great deal the wondering looks and curious questioning which the sight of the stranger would be sure to call forth.
I wonder you don't tire of it, Lily." "That's what makes me miss you so much. Oh, Archie! I thought the week would never be done." "It can't be right for me to bide at Dunmoor, when you miss me so much, Lily. I ought to give up the school for awhile, I think." But Lilias would not hear of such a thing. Stay from the school for her sake! No, indeed.
Their Sabbath journeys over the hills to the kirk of Dunmoor were renewed; and, sitting in her father's seat, and listening to the words of salvation from the lips of her father's friend, Lilias grew more and more into the knowledge of "the peace of God that passeth all understanding." Although but a child in years, early sorrow had taught her some lessons that childhood seldom learns.
They went one day to the top of the highest hill in the neighbourhood. They had just left the hills, and stood on the turnpike-road between Dunmoor and Kirklands, the other lads to go to the manse, and Archie to go home, a good two miles away yet.
Young Mr Crawford doesn't seem to think that I belong to him, maybe because I go so often to Dunmoor kirk. He hasn't darkened my door but once yet, and he's not like to do it now. They say he's to be married to one of Fivie's daughters; and I mind Fivie a poor herd-laddie. Eh me! but the Lord brings down one and puts up another! To think of the Lady of Pentlands having to leave yon bonny place!
Oh, Archie was strong; quite strong enough for that, if only his aunt and Lilias thought so; and maybe they might, if John would speak to them about it. And so it was arranged; and when John went back to college and the Gordon boys went home, Archie found himself at David Graham's side, under the firm and not ungentle rule of the Dunmoor parish schoolmaster.
If it is God's will, we will not be parted, my beloved child." And so it was settled, and Lilias's heart was set at rest about the matter; and in the morning her face told the tidings to Archie before her lips could speak the words. Mrs Blair's cottage lay at the distance of several miles from the kirk of Dunmoor, which she had all her life attended.
They could not go to the kirk at Dunmoor, their father's kirk. The winter rains had made the way over the hills impassable; and the distance by the high-road was too great for them. They learnt in a little while to love the kindly voice of the minister of Kirklands parish, and they soon got many a kindly greeting from the neighbours at the kirk door.
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