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As it sometimes happens that persons, or families taught to love each other unknown, when well known learn to hate; so, on the contrary, it is no unfrequent circumstance for those who have lived for years in enmity, when suddenly brought together, to become closer friends than if there had been no former antipathy between them. So it was with the Rothesays and the Gwynnes. Once after Mrs.
"I have not the slightest doubt of Captain Rothesay's respectability," answered Dr. Johnson. Respectability! applied to the scions of a family which had had the honour of being nearly extirpated at Flodden-field, and again at Pinkie. Had the trusty follower of the Rothesays heard the term, she certainly would have been inclined to annihilate the presumptuous Englishman.
It must be a very pretty one. I wonder what Angus would like? A family name, perhaps, after one of those old Rothesays that you and he make so much of." "Oh, Mrs. Rothesay! And are ye no proud o' your husband's family?" "Yes, very proud; especially as I have none of my own.
O my dear master, my bairn, that I nursed on my knee! how will ye come back an' see your first-born, the last o' the Rothesays, a puir bit crippled lassie!" A faint call from the inner room startled both doctor and nurse. "Good heavens!" exclaimed the former. "We must think of the mother. Stay I'll go. She does not, and she must not, know of this.
In this case none were tried. Her fortunes seemed to arrange themselves; for Mrs. Fludyer, coming in one day to make the final arrangements for the Rothesays' arrival at Farnwood, took a vehement liking to the young French lady, as Miss Manners was generally considered, and requested that Mrs.
The Rothesays were to leave one day, the Vanbrughs the next. Olive and Meliora were both very busy too busy to have time for regrets.
She's your husband's aunt," observed Elspie, feeling it necessary to stand up for the honour of the family. "Miss Flora was a comely leddy ance, as a' the Rothesays were." "And this Miss Rothesay will be too, I hope, though she is such a little brown thing now. But people say that the brownest babies grow the fairest in time, eh, nurse?"
"The poor lassie! she's just wearied out!" said Mrs. Flora, laying her hands on Olive's hair. "Jean, get her some tea. Now, my bairn, lift up your face. Ay, there it is a Rothesay's, every line! and with the golden hair too. Ye have heard tell of the weird saying, about the Rothesays with yellow hair? No? We will not talk of it now." And the old lady suddenly looked thoughtful even somewhat grave.
Thither the little stranger was despatched, by means of a succession of contrivances which almost drove the simple Meliora crazy. For lest her little adventure of benevolence should come to Michael's ears she dared to take no one into her confidence, not even the Rothesays. Madame Blandin, the mistress of the pension, was furnished with no explanations; indeed there were none to give.
Then she started up, clasping the child convulsively, and faced the doctor. "Ye lee, ye ugly creeping Englisher! How daur ye speak so of ane o' the Rothesays, frae the blude o' whilk cam the tallest men an' the bonniest leddies ne'er a cripple amang them a How daur ye say that my master's bairn will be a . Wae's me! I canna speak the word."
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