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He therefore uttered with a hasty and trembling voice "Your lordship's honour is mistaken I am not of your persuasion, nor a clergyman, but, with all reverence, only puir Edie Ochiltree, the king's bedesman and your honour's."
Had John Knox married Mary, Queen of Scots, there would have been no Presbyterian Church, no Princeton, no Doctor McCosh, no Grover Cleveland. On March Twentieth, Fifteen Hundred Sixty-three, the banns were read between John Knox and Margaret "Stewart," or Stuart, daughter of Lord Ochiltree, and a forebear of our own Tom Ochiltree. The young lady was two months past sixteen years old.
He, too, was well born, his father an eminent jurist of Texas; he, himself, a wit, bon homme and raconteur. Travers once said: "We have three professional liars in America Tom Ochiltree is one and George Alfred Townsend is the other two." The stories told of Tom would fill a book.
He had never been able to learn definitely the reason of her coldness, but had dated it from his meeting with old Mrs. Ochiltree, with which he felt it was obscurely connected. He had noticed Delamere's scowling look, too, at their last meeting. Clara's injustice, whatever its cause, he felt keenly.
Ochiltree when announcing his engagement, was all that heart could wish, and had apparently been made on purpose for him.... No later than Saturday afternoon and early at that Rutherford, having parted with the widower and seen him off the premises, ran upstairs to his wife's door, with a spring in his step and a light in his eyes that plainly showed his mourning to be over.
Carteret had asked her aunt to come and live with her; but Mrs. Ochiltree, who would have regarded such a step as an acknowledgment of weakness, preferred her lonely independence. She resided in a small, old-fashioned house, standing back in the middle of a garden on a quiet street. Two old servants made up her modest household. This refusal to live with her niece had been lightly borne, for Mrs.
"William," she said to the coachman when they reached Mrs. Ochiltree's house, "you may tie the horse and help us out. I shall be here a little while." William helped the ladies down, assisted Mrs. Ochiltree into the house, and then went round to the kitchen.
Ochiltree, and he was a murderous villain, whoever he may be. To quote Josh would destroy the effect of his story, we know he never harmed any one but himself" "An' a few keerliss people w'at got in my way," corrected Josh. "He has been in court several times for fighting, and that's against him. To have been at Sam Taylor's place is against Sandy, too, rather than in his favor.
"It is not regimental business, sir, that calls me; and, since you insist upon knowing, I must inform you Caxon has brought word this morning that old Ochiltree, the beggar, is to be brought up for examination to-day, previous to his being committed for trial; and I'm going to see that the poor old fellow gets fair play that's all." "Ay? I heard something of this, but could not think it serious.
What one kindly pressed, the other as firmly promised; and the friends having thus parted, with every testimony of mutual regard, the domestic of Lord Glenallan took his road back to the seat of his master, leaving Ochiltree to trace onward his habitual pilgrimage.
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