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But if it please my Lord, then of thy kindness bury thou the little body where no cruel bird nor beast can harm it!" But in silence the soldier carried away the child. Then Lord Walter looked to see if Griselda would fret or be less kind to him. He watched, but could see no change in her. She was as busy and loving and cheerful as ever. Neither in earnest nor in play did she name her child.
Fifty years and more, Tabitha, fifty years and more, it has never missed an hour! We are getting old, Tabitha, our day is nearly over; perhaps 'tis to remind us of this." Miss Tabitha did not reply. She was weeping silently. The old ladies seemed to have forgotten the presence of their niece, but Griselda could not bear to see their distress.
Griselda gazed with all her eyes. Then she suddenly gave a little shiver. "What's the matter?" said the cuckoo. "You have the mantle on you're not cold?" "No," said Griselda, "I'm not cold; but somehow, cuckoo, I feel a little frightened. The sea is so strange, and so dreadfully big; and the light is so queer, too. What is the light, cuckoo? It isn't moonlight, is it?"
It is my will that she be welcomed royally." "My whole desire is to serve thee, my Lord. Neither weal nor woe shall ever make me cease to love thee with all my heart." At once Griselda took control of all who worked in the castle. Of them all she was the neatest and the quickest. Soon every room in the tower was sweet and clean.
It was arranged that Griselda should come back to Bruton Street for the night, and that her visit should then be brought to a close. "The archdeacon thinks that for the present I had better remain up in town," said Mrs. Grantly, "and under the very peculiar circumstances Griselda will be perhaps more comfortable with me."
Let all show their love to me by the honor and love they bear to her." The ladies of the court were commanded to take off Griselda's old clothes and to array her in the costly robes they had brought with them. They did not like to touch the poor soiled clothes she wore, nor to move about in the little cottage with their sweeping gowns; but the gentleness of Griselda made it pleasant to help her.
"Tell me, are there any mermaids, or fairies, or water-sprites, or any of those sort of creatures here?" "I must still say 'not exactly," said the cuckoo. "There are beings here, or rather there have been, and there may be again; but you, Griselda, can know no more than this." His tone was rather solemn, and again Griselda felt a little "eerie."
It was Lord Dumbello; and Griselda, making no reply except by a slight bow, got up and put her hand within her partner's arm. "Shall I find you here, Lady Lufton, when we have done?" she said; and then started off among the dancers.
Now it happened that when this second and more aggravated blast of the evil wind reached the rectory, the renewed waft of the tidings as to Major Grantly's infatuation regarding Miss Grace Crawley, which, on its renewal, seemed to bring with it something of confirmation, it chanced, I say, that at that moment Griselda, Marchioness of Hartletop, was gracing the paternal mansion.
Various other considerations had now added themselves to that, and filled not only his mind but his daily conversation with his wife. How terrible would be the disgrace to Lord Hartletop, how incurable the injury to Griselda, the marchioness, should the brother-in-law of the one, and the brother of the other, marry the daughter of a convicted thief! "Of himself he would say nothing."
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