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"Come hame, and be a guid bairn, and ill man sall never touch ye, or gar ye greit ony mair! There's my man waitin for ye, to tak ye, and haud ye safe!" Isy looked up, and over the shoulder of her hostess saw the strong paternal face of the farmer, full of silent welcome. For the strange emotion that filled him he did not seek to account: he had nothing to do with that; his will was lord over it!
"Mak' it easy," he said, "I'm no' far ben the Mystery yet. I'm but a bairn; but my lips are pure, an' the fever's by." We knelt together, and I prayed: "O Friend of sinners, help us both, for we are both sinners. Keep us, blessed Lord, and let his little daughter be near us both to help us on the way. We will both try our best, and Thou wilt too. Amen."
And then she rocked backward and forward, as if to make it sleep, hushing it, and wasting on it her infinite fondness. "Wae's me, doctor! I declare she's thinkin' it's that bairn." "What bairn?" "The only bairn we ever had; our wee Mysie, and she's in the Kingdom forty years and mair."
So, when he approached the gate he saw, but would not see, the dying girl who leaned against it. Whatever he felt he made no sign. He closed it without hurry, and then passed on the other side. "Father! O, father! speak one word to me." Then he turned and looked at her, sternly and awfully. "Thou art nane o' my bairn. I ken naught o' thee."
This wark," and he pointed toward the remains of the house, "is redskin deviltry. A fortnight sin' a band o' Indians fell upon us. I was awa'. They killed my wife and burned my house and ha' carried off my bairn." "Who were they?" Harold asked.
"You are going to leave me, Robert, my bairn," said the woman, "an' I kenna how I sall ever get on without you; I have almost forgotten, sin you came to live with me, that I have neither children nor husband." On seeing me, she stopped short.
Just now they caressed the pictures of "Night" and "Morning," hanging there in their round gilt frames; the window boxes where hyacinths blossomed; the English ivy festooned to frame the window beside her sister-in-law's writing-desk; the melancholy engraving over the fireplace "The Motherless Bairn" a commonplace picture which harrowed her, but which nobody thought of discarding in a day when even the commonplace was uncommon.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen." "Ah! that is easy saying," said my lord. "That is very easy saying, Mackellar. But for me to forgive! I think I would cut a very silly figure if I had the affectation to pretend it." "The bairn, my lord!" said I, with some severity, for I thought his expressions little fitted for the care of children.
Eugene Field strikes the same chord, until she who has laid a child under the sod thrills with remorseful pain: "No bairn let hold until her gown, Nor played upon the floore, Godde's was the joy; a lyttle boy Ben in the way no more!"
I suppose it must be; so go your ways up stairs with Jenny, bairn, and make yourself at home. It's little I have for a fine young miss like you to play with, but what I have you're welcome to; so make no bones about it: d'ye hear?" "But I am in your way," said Leam, not moving. "You do not want me?" Miss Gryce laughed. "Want ye?" she shouted. "Want ye, do you say?
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