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She took pride in the arrangement of her hair, was anxious about the fit of her dresses, and did not regard the right mixture of colors in her costumes as a thing beneath her consideration. Early in July Mary returned to Drumloch. She had come as far as Glasgow with a party who were going to Oban. Oban was then little known.
"It was not about business. It was about you." "Me!" "My dear Mary, for what I am going to say, I beg your pardon in advance, for I feel keenly the position in which I must appear before you. You know that the welfare of Drumloch has been my father's object by day, and his dream by night. He cannot bear to think of a stranger or a strange name in its old rooms.
"I was just going out to Drumloch, but that is now neither possible nor desirable. I could be of no use to Miss Campbell, I can be everything to my father." Allan had only one call to make. It was upon a middle-aged man, who had long been employed by their house in affairs demanding discernment and secrecy. Few words passed between them.
"Wha are these Promoters?" asked the factor. "They are a Fife family." "Wasna that handsome young minister her brother?" "He was that." "He seems to hae set his heart on the heiress o' Drumloch." "Captain Manners has the same notion." "The minister will win." "The minister will not win. Not he!" The words were so emphatically snapped out that they were followed by a distinct silence.
"But if I go also, what shall be done with Drumloch?" "Mrs. Leslie and Bruce will do the best they can; and for the rest, let things 'gae tapsal-teerie, as Uncle John says. I have made up my mind, Maggie, to take you with us, and I am not going to be disappointed for a trifle.
Those who saw him softly stepping through the old halls of Drumloch, or standing almost reverently before the hard grim faces of his ancestors, would have called him an aristocrat who held all things cheap but an ancient home and a noble family.
"You shall be there also, Maggie, though we should have to send special horses and carriages with you. I intend to be back at Drumloch about the 22d, that will give you plenty of time. When you return we will go to Blytheswood Square, until Uncle John gets home." "What would take him at all to a heathen country like Russia?"
And when this point had been reached, it had been so naturally and unobtrusively reached, that even the servants only remembered the first days of Maggie's residence at Drumloch, as a time when "Miss Promoter dootless had a sorrow o' her ain, and keepit much to hersel'."
I think we both understood by implication rather than by explanation that it was our father's intention to unite the two branches of the Drumloch family, and so also unite their wealth by our marriage." "I never understood there was any such intention. No one ever spoke to me of it.
She felt certain that there would be a letter from him among her Accumulated mail matter. Perhaps he had even called at Drumloch. The next time she was alone with Mrs. Leslie she asked if her cousin had been to Drumloch yet. "He was expected home about this time," she said, "and I should not like him to be turned from the door, even if I am ill." "I heard that he had gone to Riga, Miss Campbell.
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