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Updated: June 21, 2025
Except on washing days it was of a genteel appearance, for though but a wooden kist, it had a gay outer garment with frills, which Gavinia starched, and beneath this was apparel of a private character that tied with tapes. When Miss Ailie, pins in her mouth, was on her knees arraying the ottoman, it might almost have been mistaken for a female child.
All her old skill in needlework came back to her, and she sewed for the child such exquisite garments that she clapped her hands over them. One day Tommy came with a white face and asked Gavinia if she knew whether a small brown parcel had been among the things brought by Grizel from the doctor's house. "It was in the box sent after me from Switzerland," he told her, "and contained papers."
She knew that it could not remain there much longer, but every time she rose to go and confess, fear of the indignities to which the body of her darling mamma might be subjected pulled her back. The boys had spoken idly, but hunted Grizel, who knew so much less and so much more than any of them, believed it all. It was she who had stood so near Gavinia in the ruined house.
Gavin offered him "Ivanhoe" instead, because his mother had given a read of "Waverley" to Gavinia, Miss Ailie's servant, and she read so slowly, putting her finger beneath each word, that she had not yet reached the middle. Also, she was so enamoured of the work that she would fight anyone who tried to take it from her.
"She brought it to my auntie's door soon after I loused, and put it into my hand: ay, and she had a blue shawl, and she telled me to give it to Gavinia, because she liked her too." "What else did she say?" Corp tried to think. "I said, 'This cows, Grizel, but thank you kindly," he answered, much pleased with his effort of memory, but the doctor interrupted him rudely.
He thought he had settled the whole matter. He was burning to be downstairs to tell Gavinia that these things needed only a man. "And so you'll be yoursel' again, Grizel," he said, with great relief. She had not seen that he was aiming at her until now, and it touched her. "Am I so different, Corp?"
"Thou couldst not look like Gavinia," the prince said, shaking his head. "Wha wants him to look like Gavinia?" cried an indignant voice. "Peace, Agnes!" said Stroke. "Agnes, why bletherest thou?" said Sir Joseph. "If onybody's to watch Miss Ailie," insisted the obstinate woman, "surely it should be me!" "Ha!"
It was because he had such need of her. I don't know whether you remember, but there were once some children who played at Jacobites in the Thrums Den under Tommy's leadership. Elspeth, of course, was one of them, and there were Corp Shiach, and Gavinia, and lastly, there was Grizel.
"That," said Tommy, "is to show you that I am as fond of the old times and my old friends as ever, and the moment you deny it I shall take you to mean, Gavinia, that you want another kiss." "He's just the same!" Corp remarked ecstatically, when Tommy had gone. "I dinna deny," Gavinia said, "but what he's fell taking"; and for a time they ruminated.
They had only to cross a plank, invisible in the mist until they were close to it, and climb a slippery bank strewn with fallen trees. McLean, with a mock serious air, led the way, Miss Ailie on his arm. Corp and Gavinia followed, weighted and hampered by their new half-crowns, and Tommy and Elspeth, in the rear, whispered joyously of the coming life.
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