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But even before this mortal offence was given to its mistress, his residence at Glenallan offered few inducements to a gay young man like Edward Geraldin Neville, though its gloom and seclusion seemed to suit the retired and melancholy habits of his elder brother. Lord Geraldin, in the outset of life, had been a young man of accomplishment and hopes.
"Are there more of the set?" said Lord Glenallan. "Two, my lord, one rising four, the other five off this grass, both very handsome." "Then let Dawkins bring them down to Monkbarns to-morrow," said the Earl "I hope Captain M'Intyre will accept them, if they are at all fit for service."
This event was the more probable, as his brother had died of a lingering complaint, which, in the latter years of his life, had affected at once his frame and his spirits; so that heralds and genealogists were already looking back into their records to discover the heir of this ill-fated family, and lawyers were talking with gleesome anticipation, of the probability of a "great Glenallan cause."
My dwelling at Craigburnfoot is before my een, as it were present in reality: the green bank, with its selvidge, just where the burn met wi' the sea the twa little barks, wi' their sails furled, lying in the natural cove which it formed the high cliff that joined it with the pleasure-grounds of the house of Glenallan, and hung right ower the stream Ah! yes I may forget that I had a husband and have lost him that I hae but ane alive of our four fair sons that misfortune upon misfortune has devoured our ill-gotten wealth that they carried the corpse of my son's eldest-born frae the house this morning But I never can forget the days I spent at bonny Craigburnfoot!"
Lord Glenallan stared, as hardly comprehending the old man's boldness in daring to bandy words with him, and, with his hand, made him another signal of departure, which the mendicant instantly obeyed. For he was one in all their idle sport, And like a monarch, ruled their little court The pliant bow he formed, the flying ball, The bat, the wicket, were his labours all. Crabbe's Village.
Blattergowl, who had just pronounced the formidable word, "teind-free," when the subject of the French Revolution was started a political event on which Lord Glenallan looked with all the prejudiced horror of a bigoted Catholic and zealous aristocrat. Oldbuck was far from carrying his detestation of its principles to such a length.
Those who knew him upon his travels entertained the highest expectations of his future career. But such fair dawns are often strangely overcast. The young nobleman returned to Scotland, and after living about a year in his mother's society at Glenallan House, he seemed to have adopted all the stern gloom and melancholy of her character.
He approached the old woman as she was seated on her usual settle, and asked her, in a tone as audible as his voice could make it, "Are you Elspeth of the Craigburnfoot of Glenallan?" "Wha is it that asks about the unhallowed residence of that evil woman?" was the answer returned to his query. "The unhappy Earl of Glenallan." "Earl! Earl of Glenallan!"
And werena thae pleasant guests, think ye, to take up their quarters in ae woman's heart? I trow there was routh o' company." "But, cummer," continued the beggar, "it wasna the Countess of Glenallan I meant, but her son, him that was Lord Geraldin." "I mind it now," she said; "I saw him no that langsyne, and we had a heavy speech thegither.
And I may add, as a remarkable fact, that such was the intense operation of mental energy upon her physical powers and nervous system, that, notwithstanding her infirmity of deafness, each word that Lord Glenallan spoke during this remarkable conference, although in the lowest tone of horror or agony, fell as full and distinct upon Elspeth's ear as it could have done at any period of her life.
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