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Eric reflected rapidly. He was greatly relieved to find that Neil had gone. He would never return and this was best for all concerned. Old Robert must be told a part of the truth at least, since it would soon become known that Kilmeny could speak. "There was some trouble at the Gordon place to-night, Mr. Williamson," he said quietly.
Thomas and I carried him back to his room, but the breath was gone from him before we ever got him there. "Well, Master, Kilmeny was born a month afterwards, and when Margaret felt her baby at her breast the evil thing that had held her soul in its bondage lost its power. She spoke and wept and was herself again. Oh, how she wept! She implored us to forgive her and we did freely and fully.
Her glossy black hair was wound about her head in a braided coronet, against which a spray of wild asters shone like pale purple stars. Her face was flushed delicately with excitement. She looked like a young princess, crowned with a ruddy splash of sunlight that fell through the old trees. "Father, this is Kilmeny," said Eric proudly. Kilmeny held out her hand with a shyly murmured greeting. Mr.
There is nothing in the world or in heaven either, as I believe so truly beautiful and wonderful and blessed as love." "Have you ever loved?" asked Kilmeny, with the directness of phrasing necessitated by her mode of communication which was sometimes a little terrible. She asked the question simply and without embarrassment.
Will it hurt you to talk of the matter with me?" She shook her head. "Oh, no," she wrote, "I do not mind at all. Of course I am sorry I cannot speak, but I am quite used to the thought and it never hurts me at all." "Then, Kilmeny, tell me this. Do you know why it is that you are unable to speak, when all your other faculties are so perfect?" "No, I do not know at all why I cannot speak.
"But she loves me," cried the young man, "and if you and her uncle speak to her urge her perhaps you can influence her " "No, Master, it wouldn't be any use. Oh, we will, of course, but it will not be any use. Kilmeny is as determined as her mother when once she makes up her mind.
Eric did not trouble himself greatly about Neil; but Thomas Gordon, understanding the motive which had led Neil to betray his discovery of the orchard trysts, bluntly told Kilmeny that she must not make such an equal of Neil as she had done. "You have been too kind to the lad, lassie, and he's got presumptuous. He must be taught his place. I mistrust we have all made more of him than we should."
Williamson, who was cutting bread at the end of the table, laid down her knife and loaf, and looked at the young man with a softly troubled expression in her eyes. She wondered if he had been back to the Connors orchard and if he could have seen Kilmeny Gordon again. "You didn't discover a gold mine, I s'pose?" said old Robert dryly. "You look as if you might have."
The peasant girl Kilmeny was her name could not report such grand things as Durante, for, as the shepherd says, telling her story as I tell Diamond's "Kilmeny had been she knew not where, And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare; Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew, Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew.
And, Master, never a word did Margaret say from that day until after Kilmeny was born not one word, Master. Nothing we could do for her softened her. And we were kind to her, Master, and gentle with her, and never reproached her by so much as a look. But she would not speak to anyone. She just sat in her room most of the time and stared at the wall with such awful eyes.
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