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Updated: June 6, 2025
To come on this silent, peaceful, magic territory, fresh out of the turmoil of a battle, was to be in a region haunted, in the borderland of morning dreams, where care is a vague and far-off memory, and the elements study our desires. The lake spread out before us without a ripple, its selvedge at the shore repeating the picture on the brae.
It is an inspiring sight, and, turning away with reluctance, we circle the hill to Cragmont Heights, stopping to rest on the rocky summit that overlooks the valley. To our right in North Brae rises a massive pile of granite, known as "Indian Rock." It marks the resting place of a number of Indian warriors who once roamed the surrounding hills, and is a fitting monument to this once noble race.
But it was in Earraid itself that I delighted chiefly. The lighthouse settlement scarce encroached beyond its fences; over the top of the first brae the ground was all virgin, the world all shut out, the face of things unchanged by any of man's doings.
There was some demur at first to the admission of a Prelatist; but after some converse with him this was withdrawn, and he will preach next Sabbath morning at Selkirk, and in the afternoon at Monks' Brae. You can go to Monks' Brae to hear him, if you will; I, of course, shall not be able to accompany you, but I trust to find an opportunity when he preaches in the fields, if there be one.
A grass-grown road crosses the lines here, goes up to the hill-top, and then along it. The slopes at this end of the hill are gentle, and from low down, where our lines are, it is a pleasant and graceful brae, where the larks never cease to sing and where you may always put up partridges and sometimes even a hare. It is a deserted hill at this time, but for the wild things.
"Janet," said Graeme again, "what do you think Mrs Greenleaf told me all Merleville is saying?" Janet expressed no curiosity. "They say Deacon Snow wants to take you down the brae." Still Mrs Nasmyth made no answer. "He hasna ventured to hint such a thing?" exclaimed Graeme interrogatively. "No' to me," said Janet, quietly, "but the minister." "The minister! He's no' blate!
"They have been down the brae with Emily all the day, but they are coming home now; and, my dear, they havena been ben yonder, and I think they should see her before before she's moved, and I dinna like to disturb your father. My bairn, are you able to rise and take Will and wee Rosie ben yonder." Graeme raised herself slowly up. "Janet, I have been forgetting the bairns."
Mary met me on the beach, and led me up the brae and into the house of Aros. Outside and inside there were many changes.
When Menie went down the brae again, it must be with eyelids closed, and with hands folded on a heart at rest forever. "Janet, when will Sandy come? Have you got a letter yet?" "Yes; I got a letter to-day. It winna be long now." "Oh! I hope not. I want to see him and your mother. I want them to see me, too. Sandy would hardly mind me, if he didna come till afterwards."
"Why, that the mere repitation o' th' best sheep-dog in the North' should keep him aff. An' I guess they're reet," and he laughed shrilly as he spoke. The Master passed on, puzzled. "Which road are ye gaein' hame?" M'Adam called after him. "Because," with a polite smile, "I'll tak' t'ither." "I'm off by the Windy Brae," the Master answered, striding on.
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