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"No," replied the sibyl, "I mean yoursell, Lord Geraldin. Had you not transgressed the obedience of a son by wedding Eveline Neville in secret while a guest at Knockwinnock, our plot might have separated you for a time, but would have left at least your sorrows without remorse to canker them.
Then came my quarrel with Captain M'Intyre, and my compelled departure from Fairport." "Well, Major Neville, you must, I believe, exchange both of your aliases for the style and title of the Honourable William Geraldin, commonly called Lord Geraldin." The Antiquary then went through the strange and melancholy circumstances concerning his mother's death.
As she finished her scrutiny, she said, with a deep sigh, "It's a sair sair change; and wha's fault is it? but that's written down where it will be remembered it's written on tablets of brass with a pen of steel, where all is recorded that is done in the flesh. And what," she said after a pause, "what is Lord Geraldin seeking from a poor auld creature like me, that's dead already, and only belongs sae far to the living that she isna yet laid in the moulds?"
"He who was called William Lord Geraldin," said the Earl; "and whom his mother's death has made Earl of Glenallan."
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