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But in the very act of recognizing this, there came upon him an old mood of melancholy, an inner mist and chill, a gray languor and wanting. The very bourgeoning and blossoming about him seemed to draw light from him, not give light. "I brought the Kelpie's Pool back with me," he thought.
But he aye irked Jarvis with his profane sangs." She drew out the adjective with a humorous downward drag of her lip. Strickland smiled. "The old man's softer now. You see that by the places at which his Bible opens." "Oh aye! We're journeyers rock and tree and Kelpie's Pool with the rest of us." She seemed to catch her own speech and look at it. "That's a word I hae been wanting the morn!
"I know the Kelpie's flow well enough," said the Master; "I suppose, at least, you mean the quicksand betwixt this tower and Wolf's Hope; but why any man in his senses should stable a steed there " "Oh, ever speer ony thing about that, sir God forbid we should ken what the prophecy means but just bide you at hame, and let the strangers ride to Ravenswood by themselves.
"I have just told you of his reading Greek over Kelpie's head," said Florimel, laughing. "Ah! but I meant English," said Clementina, whose thoughts were a little astray. Then laughing at herself she explained "I mean, can he read aloud?
A kind of green gloom pervaded the watery chasm, caused by the thick shade of trees overspreading from the opposite bank. It was a spot that a painter might have chosen for "The Kelpie's Home." The cottage door was open; and I guessed by the silence inside that old "Jone" had not reached home.
A fierce light came into the girl's eyes. But that instant a terrible cry, such as Malcolm had never heard, but which he knew must be Kelpie's, rang through the air, followed by the shouts of men, the tones of fierce execration, and the clash and clang of hoofs. "Good God!" he exclaimed, and forgetting everything else, sprang from the bed, and ran to the window outside his door.
And there was here Jock Binning, who, for all his lameness and his crutches, could go where he wished.... But it was Gilian, crossing upon the stepping-stones, who saw Glenfernie coming by the stream with the covered form in his arms. She met him; they went up the bank to the house together. She had uttered one cry, but no more. "The Kelpie's Pool," he had answered.
Down below them they saw the dark little tarn, the Kelpie's Pool. It was very clear, but dark, with a bottom of peat. Around it grew rushes and a few low willows. The two sat upon an outcropping of stone and gazed down upon it. "It's a gey lonely place," said Alexander. "Now I like it as well or better than I do the cave, and now I would leave it far behind me!" "I like the cave best.
"That is cared for," said Roland; "I locked gate and wicket on them when I went back, and no boat will stir from the island this night, if doors of good oak and bolts of iron can keep men within stone-walls. And now I resign my office of porter of Lochleven, and give the keys to the Kelpie's keeping."
Dumas never pursued the fortunes of the Master of Ravenswood after he was picked up by that coasting vessel in the Kelpie's Flow. Sometimes a meeting between characters in novels by different hands looked all but unavoidable.
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