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Leucha knew at once that she looked dowdy, and hated Holly all the more for showing herself off, as she expressed it. 'What have you come for? she said. 'I haven't invited you. 'I only thought, Leuchy dear, I 'd like to say good-night, said Holly in her rich, gentle tones. 'Oh, good-night, good-night. But surely you are not going to bed yet? 'Yes, that I am.
'You can try for the essay, Leuchy dear, she said. 'No, I can't; I haven't got the gift. I have got no gift except my love for you. Oh, kiss me, Hollyhock; kiss me! Hollyhock endured a moat fervent embrace. A voice in the distance was heard saying, 'Little fool. I cannot stand that nonsense! 'Who is talking? said Leucha, standing back, her face assuming its old unpleasant expression.
After prayers to-morrow I 'll set Leuchy on to try for one. I 'll help her, if I can, privately. She has got what I have not, and that's ambition. I can work on that; and, lassies, it will be a great relief to me, for I hate I hate being purred on and kissed all day long. I must put up with it; but it's trying, seeing my own nature is contrariwise to that.
'It terrifies me even now to think of that ghost! 'Don't be frightened, Leuchy. He means no harm, and he will not trouble you again. So don't you trouble your bonnie head, but win the glorious prize by an essay on the kitchen cat. I can assure you no one else will choose that subject, so you have the field to yourself, and well you'll do the work.
'I have heard whispers that there are big prizes to be given in the school by the Duke to the girls that are best in different subjects. We don't want prizes, not we; but that little Leuchy, she 'd be up to her eyes with joy if we were to set her trying for a prize. I 'm thinking that Mrs Macintyre will declare the nature of the prizes very soon.
But I 'm tired of these constant headaches, and I 'd like a wee bit of rest. You say I'll perform my feat in the morning. Some are clever at guessing let that be. But whatever happens in the future and no one can tell I want Leuchy to know that I bear her no malice, and that if she thinks me like poor Jean, the kitchen cat at The Garden, why, I'm satisfied.
Her tales of bogies and ghosties all of them with a slight soupçon of truth in them had excited the wonder and fearful admiration of the schoolgirls, and when she suggested, as she did suggest, that 'poor little Leuchy might wipe the ghostie's hair for her, there was a perfect chorus of delighted applause. 'But he won't come; he won't dare to come, said Margaret Drummond.
'Oh, but that 'll be hard, said Hollyhock. 'The divine grace can help you, my child. I 'm not one of the "unco guid," but I believe most fully in the all-prevailing love of the great God and His Son, our blessed Saviour. Now kiss me, and go to your lessons as though nothing had happened. 'But Leuchy! exclaimed Hollyhock. 'I'll manage Leucha.
You are all here round me with the exception of Leuchy, and I 'm thinking of her loneliness. Well, whatever happens and I don't think for a moment anything will happen I'd like Leuchy to know that all through this bitter, sad time, while Meg here was saving her soul and quite right you were, Meg I have never ceased to love Leuchy never.
She did not recognise her father or Jasper or Aunt Cecilia, and she was not in the least put out by the great doctors; but when Leucha entered, a quick and quieting change came over her face. 'Well, Leuchy, perhaps you'll kiss me now, she muttered; and Leucha knelt down by her bedside and kissed her softly, gently, tears pouring from her eyes.
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