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No, no, I'll sit for nothing else than for these scenes as you have painted them. Don't miss your chance for fame." Without a word Hagar went to work and sketched into the second sketch Telford's face as it now was in the candlelight worn, strong, and with those watchful eyes sunk deep under the powerful brows. The artist in him became greater than the man.
"'Tain't de money nor de lands dat'll do now!" moaned Hagar, beginning to sway back and forth; "it's only de Lord! De Lord's on de sea to-night, an' 'tain't fur man to say! Oh, Mas'r Dick! t'ink o' dat bressed boy in dese waves an' dis wind!" "Hush!" said the master, imperatively, "I will not think of it! It can't be! Noll? Oh, Hagar, I believe I'm going mad!"
"I'd like to think that, Hagar. I'd like to have all my thoughts and plans come from him, and I'd like to do the Lord's work; for that's what I promised, that's what I am trying to do." Hagar wiped a pile of plates, and laying down her towel, said, reverently, "Promise, chile? Did ye promise de Lord, or who?"
"Why don't your grandmother take you with her?" asked Hagar, who in a measure sympathized with Maggie for being thus isolated. "She says we are too young to go into society," answered Maggie. "It will be time enough two years hence, when I am eighteen and Theo twenty.
"Doubly blessed," whispered old Hagar, who was present, and then when she remembered that to poor little Hester a mother's blessing would never be given she felt that her load of guilt was greater than she could bear.
Yet in our own Italy, saith the proverb, 'He who sows land reaps more care than corn. It were different," continued the father, after a pause, and in a more resolute tone, "if I had some independence, however small, to count on, nay, if among all my tribe of dainty relatives there were but one female who would accompany Violante to the exile's hearth, Ishmael had his Hagar.
It gave her to realize also. The moment was rich in revelations concerning herself. She discovered she was a woman whom a relatively strange man might invite to dine with him alone. She had passed out of the fellowship of Hagar and Hecuba to enter that of Mrs. G. Cottle Scadding. This had happened, she hardly knew how.
"Close the door, Henry," said Madeline. This being done, she turned and surveyed her comrades. "So far, good," she pronounced. "Now, can you make yourselves comfortable here for a little while? Hagar and Joliffe will know just what to do as soon as I have, myself, viewed the field of battle; or perhaps I had better pilot you in person." "As you please," said the foremost of the strangers.
So Hagar became suddenly silent and uncommunicative, mingling but little with the servants, but staying all day long in her room, where she watched the children with untiring care. Especially was she kind to Hester, who as time passed on proved to be a puny, sickly thing, never noticing anyone, but moaning frequently as if in pain.
Doobtless the rascal ran awa and left her to fen for hersel; naebody would help her; and she had to beg the breid for hersel, and the drap milk for the bairnie; sae that at last she lost hert and left it, jist as Hagar left hers aneath the buss i' the wilderness afore God shawed her the bonny wall o' watter." "I kenna whilk o' them was the warst father or mither!" cried Maggie.
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