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"Do you remember the old doctor who called you his little housekeeper? He used to sit in that chair." The old chair was among Grizel's many possessions that had been brought to Double Dykes, and her face lit up with recollection. She ran to the chair and kissed it. "What was his name, Grizel?" "I should love to know his name," she said wistfully.
"I am sure it would," said Grizel. Mr. Cathro was rubbing his hands together covertly, yet half wishing he could take her aside and whisper: "Be canny; it's grand to hear you, but be canny; he is looking most extraordinar meek, and unless he has cast his skin since he was a laddie, it's not chancey to meddle with him when he is meek."
"Do you not now?" "I won't tell you," answered Grizel, who was never known to lie. "You think I'm a wonder," Tommy persisted, "but you dinna want me to know you think it." Grizel rocked her arms, a quaint way she had when excited, and she blurted out, "How do you know?"
"It is because my hand opens," Grizel said. "And then it ends in a shove," said her mentor, severely. "You should close your fists like this, with the thumbs inside, and then play dab, this way, that way, yon way. That's what Shovel calls, 'You want it, take it, you've got it."
There's as many as I like to whistle for." "You mean Grizel and Elspeth, I ken, but " "I wasna thinking of the womenfolk," Tommy told him, with a contemptuous wave of the hand. He went closer to Corp, and said, in a low voice, "The McKenzies are waiting!" "Are they, though?" said Corp, perplexed, as he had no notion who the McKenzies might be. "And Lochiel has twa hunder spearsmen."
Oh, how base of her to doubt him! She said it to herself then and often afterwards. She looked mournfully in her mother's long mirror at this disloyal Grizel, as if the capacity to doubt him was the saddest of all the changes that had come to her. He had been so true yesterday; oh, how could she tremble to-day? Beautiful yesterday! but yesterday may seem so long ago.
He took part, under the Duke of Argyle, in the invasion of Scotland, and on the failure of the enterprise remained in hiding until he found an opportunity to escape to Ireland, and thence to Holland viâ France. Here Lady Hume, Grizel, and all the children but one soon joined him.
'Not of everything, said Helen, glad really of the small consolation she could offer him. 'Not of financial safety, as it happens. It will make you less unhappy to hear, so I must tell you, Franklin is arranging things with Aunt Grizel so that when she dies I shall come into quite a nice little bit of money. I shall have no more sordid worries. In that way you mustn't have me on your conscience.
"But you will soon get over this," she said at last; "another glove will take the place of mine; the time will come when you will be glad that I said I could not marry you." "Grizel!" he cried in agony. He was so carried away by his feelings that he said the word aloud. "Where?" asked Elspeth, looking at the window.
How can I answer, who love her the more only? There is one at least, Grizel, who will never desert you. Ah, but was she? I seem again to hear the warning voice of Grizel, and this time she is crying: "You know I was not." She knew it so well that she could say it to herself quite calmly.
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