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Miss Bethia was paying a visit to a friend in a neighbouring town when David first came to Gourlay, which was upon the whole a circumstance not to be regretted, he thought, as they had a few days to themselves just at first. He was very glad to see her, when she came, however, and she was as glad to see him.
Then rising, she added, speaking rapidly and eagerly, "Sell them to me, Mrs Inglis. I'll take good care of them, and keep them together." Mrs Inglis looked at her in astonishment. The children laughed, and David said: "Do you want them to read, Miss Bethia? Or is it only for the outside, or the names on the first page, like Mr Grantly?" "Never you mind.
Her clothes and bedding were in part for Debby, and the rest to be divided among certain persons named. Mrs Inglis was requested to leave her late husband's library where it was for one year, unless she should see some good reason for taking it away. And that was all. Everybody looked surprised, except Debby, who had known the contents of the paper from Miss Bethia.
The dew is beginning to fall. Come, children," said the mother, rising. David and Violet came last with Miss Bethia. She smiled, well pleased, when, with boyish gallantry, David offered her his arm. "I've gone alone all my life," said she, "and now I am most at the end of it. I've taken a great many steps, too, at one time and another, but they don't seem to amount to much to look back upon."
"Obedience is the first duty of a soldier, Ned, boy," said Jem. "If we could only know that we were soldiers," said David, gravely; and then he added to himself, "The very first thing is to enrol one's name." "I wonder all the girls don't like Aunt Bethia more," said Jessie, when Violet came up to take her candle in a little. "I'm sure she's nice sometimes."
But it was just at the time when the cook was sulking at Bethia's dismissal and she chose to be unpunctual and careless. There was no successor to Bethia as yet appointed to wait at the meals. So, though Mr.
"Miss Bethia, I cannot thank you enough for your kind thoughts toward me and my children. But it would not be right to take your money, even if I could bear to part with my husband's books. It would be a gift from you to us." "No, it wouldn't. It would cost me something to part with my money, I don't deny; but not more not so much as it would cost you to part with your books.
It seems to me you owe it to your husband's memory to keep the books together. For my part, I don't see how you can think of refusing my offer, as you can't take them with you." "To care for the books yes " "See here, David!" said Miss Bethia, "what do you say about it? You are a boy of sense. Tell your ma there's no good being so contrary I mean I don't know what I mean, exactly," added she.
'Give it to me! he repeated more quietly than before. She looked as if she would cry; but still she kept the note tight held behind her back. 'He said as I was to give it into her own hands; and I promised as I would, faithful. 'Cook, go and find Miss Molly. Tell her to come here at once. He fixed Bethia with his eyes.
"And, besides, if you go to M you will see him often," said Frank. "We shall be rather dismal without you both, I am afraid." "Dismal enough!" echoed Mr Philip. "And if you all go to Gourlay to live, as Miss Bethia seemed to think you would, what will become of us?" "What, indeed!" said Philip. "That is the plan, is it? It is cruel of Aunt Mary, and I shall tell her so."
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