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And so do I. But I should have to leave you alone, my boy; for if once I make the effort, and return to Cairnforth, I know I shall never quit it more." He spoke earnestly more so than the occasion seemed to need, and there was a weary look in his eyes which struck his companion. "Are you afraid to leave me alone, Lord Cairnforth?" asked Cardross, sadly. "No."
Though this region is a populous district now, with white villas dotted like daisies all along the green shores, there was then not a house in the whole peninsula of Cairnforth except the Castle, the Manse, and a few cottages, called the "clachan." Before help was possible, the earl and his boatman, Neil Campbell, were both drowned.
On me, therefore, depends the charge of this poor infant the sole bar between those penniless, grasping, altogether discreditable Bruces, and the large property of Cairnforth. You see my position, gentlemen?" It was not an easy one, and no wonder the honest man looked much troubled.
Cardross and his daughter, that neither put to him a single question on the subject, but instinctively passed it over, and kept the conversation to all sorts of commonplace topics: the journey the wonders of London and the small events which had happened in quiet Cairnforth during the three months that the earl had been away.
He had another attendant, to whom, with a curious persistency, he had strongly attached himself ever since his babyhood young Malcolm Campbell, Neil Campbell's brother, who was saved by clinging to the keel of the boat when the late Lord Cairnforth was drowned.
Mentieth, Mrs. Campbell, and her charge, a few rumors got abroad that the little earl was "no a'richt" if an earl could be "no a' richt" which the simple folk about Loch Beg and Loch Mhor, accustomed for generations to view the Earls of Cairnforth much as the Thibetians view their Dali Lama, thought hardly possible. But what was wrong with him nobody precisely knew.
It amused them through all the winter and spring, till Cairnforth woods grew green again, and Loch Beg recovered its smile of sunshiny peace, and the hills at the head of it took their summer colors, lovely and calm, even as, year after year, these friends had watched them throughout their two lives, of which both were now keenly beginning to feel the greater part lay, not before them, but behind.
Then she took her son's arm such a stalwart arm now, and walked with him through the bright moonlight, clear as day, to Cairnforth Castle.
That is, do you still continue to like him, for I know you did at first?" "And I do still. I feel so very sorry for him." "Only, my dear" Lord Cairnforth sometimes called her "my dear," and spoke to her with a tender, superior wisdom "one's link to one's friends ought to be a little stronger than being sorry for them; one ought to respect them.
And the earl's eyes brightened almost as much as Helen's did when Cardross leaped in at the window, all his good-humor restored, kissed his mother in his rough, fond way, of which he was not in the least ashamed as yet, and sat down by the wheeled chair with that tender respectfulness and involuntary softening of manner and tone which he never failed to show Lord Cairnforth, and had never shown so much to any other human being.
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