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Updated: June 13, 2025
"And she never moved or spoke; she just covered her face with her hands, and gave a little scream; for no doubt I had frighted her and Braelands, he got into the de'il's own rage then, and dared me to call the lady 'Sophy' again; 'for, said he, 'she will be my wife before many days'; and with that, he struck the horse savagely again and again, and the poor beast broke from my hand, and bounded for'ard; and I fell on my back, and the wheels of the cart grazed the soles of my shoon as they passed me."
Where was the lass married?" "In Edinburgh." We didn't want any talk and fuss about the wedding, and Braelands he said to me, 'Mistress Kilgour, if you will take a little holiday, and go with Sophy to Edinburgh, and give her your help about the things she requires, we shall both of us be your life-long debtors. And I thought Edinburgh was the proper place, and so I went with Sophy putting up a notice on the shop door that I had gone to look at the winter fashions and would be back to-day and here I am for I like to keep my word.
Oh, Janet, I can see and feel the bitter, cruel task-woman over the poor, foolish child! She is killing her, and Archie Braelands does not see the right and the wrong of it all." "I'll make him see it." "You will hold your tongue, Janet. They who stir in muddy water only make it worse."
So she yielded easily and gracefully to Archie Braelands's petition, and thus Sophy suddenly found herself able to do openly what she had hitherto done secretly, and the question of her marriage with Braelands accepted as an understood conclusion. At this sudden culmination of her hardly acknowledged desires, the girl was for a short tune distracted.
The next day they looked for some communication from Braelands; yet they did not suffer this expectation to interfere with Sophy's explicit wish, and the preparations for her funeral went on without regard to Archie's promise. It was well so, for there was no redemption of it. He did not come again to Pittendurie, and if he sent any message, it was not permitted to reach them.
He began to think he had been badly used, and to agree with Madame in her assertions that Sophy must be put under some restrictions, and subjected to some social instruction. "The idea of the Braelands's carriage standing two hours at Griselda Kilgour's shop door! All the town talking about it! Every one wondering what had happened at Braelands, to drive your wife out of doors in such weather.
He would not give the de'il such a laugh over him. You may take my word, that he will break no commandment for any lass; and Sophy Braelands will now have to vacate his very thoughts." "I am glad she is married then. If her marriage cures Andrew of that never-ending fret about her, it will be a comfort." "It is a cure, sure as death, as far as your brother is concerned.
I'm off to Braelands," and he put the divorce papers in his pocket, and went down the cliff at a run. When he reached the house, Archie was at the door on his horse and evidently in a hurry; but Andrew's look struck him on the heart like a blow. He dismounted without a word, and motioned to Andrew to follow him. They turned into a small room, and Archie closed the door.
If you don't take care, and make haste, Braelands will run away with your wife before your very eyes." "I'll not believe it. It could not be. The thing is unspeakable, and unbearable. I'll face my fate the morn, and I'll know the best or the worst of what is coming to me." "Look for good, and have good, that is, if you don't let the good hour go by.
Poor Sophy Braelands!" It was noticeable, however, that not a single woman had a wrong thought of Sophy. Madame could easily suspect the worst, but the "worst" was an incredible thing to a fisher-wife. Some indeed blamed her for not tholing her grief until her husband came back, but not a single heart suspected her of a liaison with her old lover.
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