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'Go not back to Elfland; stay by my side under the Eildon tree, he pleaded. 'Nay, said the Queen of Elfland, 'should I stay with thee, a mortal, my fairness would fade as fades a leaf. But Thomas did not believe her, and, for he was a bold man, he drew near and kissed the rosy lips of the Elfland Queen. Alas, alas! no sooner had he kissed her than the lady fair changed into a tired old woman.
They came next to the royal hall, where the king received his loving consort; knights and ladies, dancing by threes, occupied the floor of the hall; and Thomas, the fatigue of his journey from the Eildon Hills forgotten, went forward and joined in the revelry.
Lady Arthur did not think of her mother: she had lost her early, and besides, her thoughts and feelings had been all absorbed by her husband. Alice Garscube had never known her mother, and as she looked gravely at the girl who was crying behind her handkerchief, she envied her she had known her mother. As for Mr. Eildon, he had none but bright and happy thoughts connected with his mother.
Thomas of Erceldoune, a personage less shadowy than some of those commemorated in this chapter, is known to have lived in the thirteenth century. His reputation for prophetic powers has been wide and lasting. These powers were said to be, like Oisin's, a gift from the Fairy Queen. She met him under the Eildon Tree, which stood on the easternmost of the three Eildon Hills.
Eildon had just sailed for Australia. When Lady Arthur heard this she said, "I'll write to him." When she had finished writing she said, "You'll send this to him whenever you get his address. I wish we could have sent it off at once, for it will be provoking if I don't die, after all; and I positively begin to feel as if that were not going to be my luck at this time."
Eildon and Miss Garscube were penniless, the remark is not to be taken literally, for he had an income of fifteen hundred pounds, and she had five hundred a year of her own; but in the eyes of people moving in ducal circles matrimony on two thousand pounds seems as improvident a step as that of the Irishman who marries when he has accumulated sixpence appears to ordinary beings. Mr.
Lady Arthur, upon the whole, approved of railways, but did not use them much except upon occasion; and it was only by taking the train she could reach town and be home for dinner on this day. They reached the station in time, and no more. Mr. Eildon ran and got tickets, and John was ordered to be at the station nearest Garscube Hall to meet them when they returned.
Naebody'll gar me believe that the stock yer leddyship and me cam o' was na a capital gude stock." "All right, John," said Mr. Eildon, "if you include me." "It was a long time to take, surely," said Alice "a thousand years to bring the country from brushwood and swamp to corn and burns confined to their beds," "Nature is never in a hurry, Alice," replied Lady Arthur.
Now, Lady Arthur did not wish to see George Eildon at this time not that she could not keep a perfect and dignified composure in any circumstances, but her pride was still in the hinge of the door and she went from home every day. Three days she had business in town: the other days she drove to call on people living in the next county.
Eildon, pointing to a large picture hanging on the wall of three sewing-machines worked by three ladies, the one in the middle being Queen Elizabeth in her ruff, the one on the right Queen Victoria in her widow's cap: the princess of Wales was very busy at the third. "Is not that what is called an anachronism, Miss Adamson? Are not sewing-machines a recent invention?
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