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Updated: May 23, 2025
"What's that?" asked the Cornal, waking from his reverie; and his brother put his head out at the window. He drew back at once with his face exceeding crimson. "What is't?" said the Cornal, seeing his hesitation. "A honeymoon pair," said the brother, and fumbled noisily with the newspaper he had in his hand. "Poor creatures! And who is it? Though I never get over the door you'll tell me nothing."
"It was 'The Rover' and 'The Man with the Coat of Green," said Gilian in an eager recollection. "Man! did I not ken it?" cried the Cornal. "Oh! I kent it fine. 'The Rover' was her mother's trump card. I never gave a curse for a tune, but she had a way of lilting that one that was wonderful." "She had, that," said the General, and he sighed.
For Miss Mary stood behind him, with an air of proud possession of him that was disquieting, and the two men seemed to expect from him some very exciting history indeed. "Well, well!" said the Cornal, drumming with his fingers on his chair-arm impatiently, "you're in no great hurry with your budget. What vessel was it?" "It was the Jean," said Gilian, bracing himself up for a plunge.
And you the Highland gentleman! Lo sien sien siento mucho, Senora." "I am at your shoulder, Dugald, do you not know me?" asked the Cornal, gently putting his sister aside. His brother looked and smiled again, but did not seem to see him.
"That was very unlucky about the cuckoo before breakfast," said the Cornal, and he quoted a Gaelic proverb. "Oh! if I was in a foreign place and some one sang that song I would be very, very sick for home.
"What, in God's name, do you mean by this?" he asked vaguely. "Don't speak to the boy in that fashion," said the Cornal in a surprising new paternal key. "If he has been in mischief he has got out of it by a touch of the valiant " "Valiant!" cried the Paymaster with a sneer.
They were smart enough, he confessed, but they were not what the 46th had been; Crawford had a good carriage on his horse but but he was not "Oh, do not haver, Jock," said the Cornal, angrily at last; "do not haver!
Standing by the bedside, the Cornal looked upon his brother with a most rueful visage, his face hoved up with tears. "This beats all!" said he, and he turned and went beside the men at the window, leaving Miss Mary caressing still at the hand upon the coverlet, and with an arm about the boy.
"I think we can guess the rest of the story. Can we not guess the rest of the story, Dugald?" The General sat bewildered, the only one out of the secret, into which Miss Mary's whisper to the Cornal has not brought him. "I am not good at guessing," said he; "a man at my time likes everything straight forward." And there was a little irritation in his tone.
He looked at Miss Mary, sitting subdued behind her urn and Gilian at her side, and then at his brothers, hardly yet awake in the early morning, whose breakfasts in that small-windowed room it needed two or three candles to illuminate. "The county corps is coming south this way," said he, with a great restraint upon his feelings. Cornal Colin turned on him a lustreless eye.
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