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Hazel ran down the steps, and made her fingers busy with bridle and mane, giving furtive caresses. Only when she was mounted, and Rollo had turned, his ear caught the sound of one or two little soft whispers that were meant for Jeannie's ears alone.
He held my mother in tender memory, perhaps because he was in the habit of daily contrasting her with uncle Adam, whom he detested to the point of frenzy; and he set down to inheritance from his favourite my own becoming treatment of himself. "This is my Jeannie's yin," he would say.
These words broke from him not without tears, though David was of no melting mood. "And Effie and Effie, dear father?" was Jeannie's eager question. "You will never see her mair, my bairn," answered Deans, in solemn tones. "She is dead! It has come ower late!" exclaimed Jeannie, wringing her hands. "No, Jeannie, she lives in the flesh, and is at freedom from earthly restraint.
From the south end of the gallery at Bedlam Miss Forrest looked smilingly upon the scene and would fain have rewarded Bonnie Jean by blowing a kiss to her, but Jeannie's eyes were focussed on a little party of horsemen just dismounting in front of the commanding officer's. They might bring news from the cantonment, perhaps a little note from her own particular hero, Mr. Hatton.
Upon this scurvy encouragement, it appeared that my uncle had no remark to offer: twice challenged to "speak out and be done with it," he twice sullenly declined; and I may mention that about this period of the engagement, I began to be sorry for him. "See here, then, Jeannie's yin!" resumed my grandfather. "A'm goin' to give ye a set-off.
Leslie wondered if it were wrong that the high mountain fervor let itself go from her so soon and easily; that the sweet pleasantness of this new resting-place should come to her as a rest; that the laughter and frolic of the schoolgirls made her glad with such sudden sympathy and foresight of enjoyment; that she should have "come down" all the way from Jefferson in Jeannie's sense, and that she almost felt it a comfortable thing herself not to be kept always "up in the clouds."
The Duke of Argyie came to Jeannie's cousin's, where she was staying, in a few days to say that a pardon had been dispatched to Effie Deans, on condition of her banishing herself forth of Scotland for fourteen years a qualification which greatly grieved the affectionate disposition of her sister. IV. In After Years
"You and Jeannie's yin can go for a bit walk. Me and Gregg has business." When once I was in the hall alone with Uncle Adam, I turned to him sick at heart. "Uncle Adam," I said, "you can understand, better than I can say, how very painful all this is to me." "Yes, I am sorry you have seen your grandfather in so unamiable a light," replied this extraordinary man.
'Wha wad hae said, murmured he, 'that a son of Burnside wad be greetin' for Partan Jeannie's son? 'For my best friend. What have you not saved me from! and I can do nothing! 'Nay, sir. Say but thae words again. 'Oh for a clergyman! Or if I had a Bible to read you the promises. 'You shall have one, said the captain, who had returned to his side.
She gave him of her best thought, and he greedily absorbed it and unconsciously wrote it down as his own. There are those who blame and berate; volumes have been written to show the inconsiderateness of this man toward the gentle lady who was his intellectual comrade. But they know not life who do this thing. It is a fact that Carlyle never rushed to pick up Jeannie's handkerchief.
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