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"You see, my dear," said Miss Balquidder, "when one has no duties, one must just make them; when we have nobody to care for us, we must take to caring for every body. I suppose" here a slight pause indicated that this life, like all women's lives, had had its tale, now long, long told "I suppose I was not meant to be a wife; but I am quite certain I was meant to be a mother.
You must be just to others as well as to that young man, who seems never to But I will leave him unjudged." They were both silent for a minute, and then Miss Balquidder said: "I feel certain there is but one rational way of accomplishing the thing if you are bent upon doing it, if your own judgment and conscience tell you it ought to be done. Is it so?" "Yes," said Hilary, firmly.
In half an hour these two women were sitting talking like old friends; and Hilary had explained her present position, needs and desires. They ended in the one cry familiar to how many thousands more of helpless young women! "I want work!" Miss Balquidder listened thoughtfully.
They bore the same bloody trophy, which they had so savagely exhibited to the lady of Ardvoirlich, into the old church of Balquidder, nearly in the centre of their country, where the Laird of MacGregor and all his clan being convened for the purpose, laid their hands successively on the dead man's head, and swore, in heathenish and barbarous manner, to defend the author of the deed.
"I never thought of it before; the possibility of such a thing did not occur to me; but I hope I should not be ashamed of any honest work for which I was competent. Only to serve in a shop to want upon strangers I am so horribly shy of strangers." And again the sensitive color rushed in a perfect tide over checks and forehead. Miss Balquidder looked, half amused, compassionately at her.
So the dirk, the dirk!" "There it is for you then, since less wunna serve. But think on what I was saying. Waes me, it will be sair news in the braes of Balquidder that Robin Oig M'Combich should have run an ill gate, and ta'en on." "Ill news in Balquidder, indeed!" echoed poor Robin. "But Cot speed you, Hughie, and send you good marcats.
He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
At the kindly word and manner, Elizabeth, bewildered and exhausted with the excitement she had gone through, and agitated by the feeling of having, for the first time in her life, to act on her own responsibility, gave way a little. She did not exactly cry, but she was very near it. Miss Balquidder called over the stair-head, in her quick, imperative voice
Miss Balquidder then went on to explain, that finding, from her own experience, how great was the number, and how sore the trial of young women who nowadays are obliged to work obliged to forget that there is such a thing as the blessed privilege of being worked for she had set herself, in her small way, to try and help them.
And when Miss Balquidder, who had, of course, been told of the engagement, came down one day expressly to see her "fortunate fellow countryman," this Machiavellian little woman actually persuaded her lover to have an important engagement in London! She could not bear him to be "looked at." "Ah, well, you must leave me, and I will miss you terribly, my deal," said the old Scotch woman.
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