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"Are you all safe?" were the first words they heard. "In the name of wonder, George, how are you here? Where are John and Thomas?" cried Lady Arthur. "I'll tell you all about it after," said George Eildon: "the thing is to get you out of this scrape. I have a farm-cart and pair, and two men to help me: you must just put up with roughing it a little." "Oh, I am so thankful!" said Alice.
Many a mile behind us, as we rushed onward, we could see the threefold Eildon Hill, and probably every pant of the engine carried us over some spot of ground which Scott has made fertile with poetry. For Scotland cold, cloudy, barren little bit of earth that it is owes all the interest that the world feels in it to him. Few men have done so much for their country as he.
Then Thomas fell upon his knees and prayed to Mary mild that she would have pity upon him. But when he arose the Queen of Elfland bade him mount behind her, and Thomas could do nought save obey her command. Her steed flew forward, the Eildon hills opened, and horse and riders were in the caverns of the earth. Thomas felt darkness close around him.
Eildon left with the first party that went to the station; Lady Arthur and the young ladies went away at midday; John was left to take care of himself and his carriage till both should be more fit for traveling. Of the three ladies, Alice had suffered most from the severe cold, and it was some time before she entirely recovered from the effects of it.
No doubt, Lady Arthur Eildon was a direct descendant of one of "the queen's Maries," but in her rusty black gown, her old black bonnet set awry on her head, her red face, her stout figure, made stouter by a sealskin jacket, you could not at a glance see the connection.
These two ladies had exchanged opinions exactly. George Eildon had only called once, and on a day when they were all from home: he had written several times to his aunt regarding Lord Eildon's health, and Lady Arthur had written to him and had told him her anxiety about the health of Alice.
The triple pride Of Eildon looks over Strathclyde, and the salmon cast murmurs hard by the Wizard's grave.
But if he is to be his uncle's successor, that alters the case entirely. I'll go to Eildon myself, and bring him back with me." Lady Arthur went to Eildon and mingled her tears with those of the stricken parents, whose grief might have moved a very much harder heart than hers.
On Saturday he has promised to take the boys to Dryburgh and to the Eildon Hills. Mhor is very keen to see for himself where King Arthur is buried, and make a search for the horn!" "I see. It's a pity it isn't a better time of year. December days are short for excursions.... Isn't Biddy a delightful fellow?" "Yes. Jock and Mhor worship him.
The valley in which Melrose is situated, and the surrounding hills, together with the Monastery, have so often been made a theme for the Scottish bards, that this has become the most interesting part of Scotland. Of the many gifted writers who have taken up the pen, none have done more to bring the Eildon Hills and Melrose Abbey into note, than the author of "Waverley."
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