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Any form of sociability was welcome to him an impromptu garden-party in Malcolm's honour met with his decided approval. "David must give us our revenge," he said, chuckling with glee at the idea. But Malcolm did not respond to this. He felt inwardly provoked at the whole affair, and regretted that he had promised to remain another day.
He bought a noble span, last week, for a thousand dollars." Mr. Elder said what he could in praise of the elegant carriage; but he couldn't say much, for he had no heart to do so. He felt worse than ever about the deficiency in Mr. Malcolm's salary. On the next day he was in better spirits, and called in upon one of the members of the church, as he passed to his store.
"How strange that you should ask that question," returned Elizabeth, colouring slightly at the mention of Malcolm's name, "for he is coming down this very evening, and Cedric is driving to Earlsfield to meet him. Dinah asked him to come," she went on; "she wanted to talk to him about Cedric."
But instead, Malcolm's face was melancholy; and his voice was sad and weary as he answered the young man who was just starting where he had started so many years ago: "No doubt you are right. I'm not intending to try to dissuade you from from the best there is in you.
He dreaded the ordeal of his mother's searching glances; but at last one evening he plucked up his courage and went. Anna, who saw him coming, flew down the staircase to meet him. She looked younger than ever, and quite pretty, with the soft pink colour in her cheeks and her fair hair; but her smile faded when she saw Malcolm's face.
Don't shake your head, Anna; you are a girl, and you don't understand how much one has to put up with from the fellows. They call me the Puritan, and ask if I wear pinafores at home. But I stopped that," and here Malcolm doubled up his fists in a singularly suggestive manner. Malcolm's only sister, a pretty, fair-haired girl, had died of fever when she was eight years old, and for years Mrs.
"I do know it," answered Florimel gently, moved by the tone of Malcolm's voice, and the expression of his countenance. "Then I make bold to tell your ladyship that on his deathbed your father desired me to do my best for you took my word that I would be your ladyship's true servant."
He went on a great way farther, and then he came up to the old man herding the sheep; and when he asked whose sheep these were, the answer was: "The Red Ettin of Ireland Once lived in Ballygan, And stole King Malcolm's daughter, The king of Fair Scotland. "He beats her, he binds her, He lays her on a band; And every day he strikes her With a bright silver wand.
Great joy was manifested as Malcolm's band marched into the village and it was found that they had accomplished the mission on which they went, had saved Mansfeld, and utterly defeated the Imperialists, and had returned in undiminished numbers, although two or three had received wounds more or less serious, principally in the first day's fighting. They only remained one night in the village.
Indeed it was only Malcolm's familiarity with the country, and the fact that he had so many acquaintances ready to testify that he was, as he said, a Scotch drover, in the habit for many years of journeying down from the north with cattle, that enabled them to escape arrest.
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