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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Will you not come, Lord Mergwain?" said the laird. "We had better go before the night gets worse." "I will stay where I am." "Excuse me, my lord, that can hardly be. Come, I will carry your wine. You will finish your bottle more at your ease there, knowing you have not to move again."
But when he returned to his father, he found he had been missing him, and put off going till the next day. As the sun went down, the wind rose, and the storm in the bosom of the stillness came to life the worst of that winter. It reminded both father and son of the terrible night when Lord Mergwain went out into the deep. The morning came, fierce with gray cold age, a tumult of wind and snow.
The father had been for many years the medical adviser of the house; and although Lord Mergwain accorded the medical practice of his day about the same relation to a science of therapeutics that old alchemy had to modern chemistry, yet the moment he felt ill, he was sure to send for young Jermyn.
Of what they had to tell each other, of the way they lived, of how blessed they were even when not altogether happy of these matters I say nothing, leaving them to the imagination of him who has any, while for him who has none I grudge the labour, thinking too he would very likely rather hear how much Cosmo got for his diamonds, and whether, if Lord Mergwain should not marry, Cairncarque will come to Lady Joan.
Every morning and every afternoon Lady Joan visited him, waited on him, and staid a longer or shorter time, now talking, now reading to him; and seldom would she be a whole evening absent then only on the rare occasion when Lord Mergwain, having some one to dine with him of the more ordinary social stamp, desired her presence as lady of the house.
Lady Joan the same day wrote to her brother Borland, now Mergwain, telling him what had taken place. But it must be some time before she received his answer, for the post from England reached the neighbouring city but intermittently, and was there altogether arrested, so far as Howglen and Muir o' Warlock were concerned.
What the doctor would say if he saw Mergwain, she did not venture to ask: she knew he would tell any number of stories to get her out of a scrape, while Cosmo would only do or endure anything, from thrashing her brother to being thrashed himself. A comfortable room was speedily prepared for Cosmo, and Jermyn made him go to bed at once.
"A horrible country!" growled his lordship; "but look you, I don't want jaw I want drink." "What drink would your lordship have? If it be in my power " "I doubt, for all your talk, if you've got anything but your miserable whisky!" interrupted Lord Mergwain.
In my time nobody believed such things! Now they seem to be coming into fashion again!" Whoever would represent what is passing in a mind, must say more than the man himself knows how to say. The laird re-entered. "Well, have you brought the cards?" said Lord Mergwain, turning from the window. "I have, my lord. I am sorry it is such a poor pack, but we never play.
Lord Mergwain gave a scornful grunt; but Lady Joan welcomed the proposal: the silent worship of the boy, again at her feet, was not enough to make her less than very weary. For more than an hour, the laird read ballad after ballad; but nobody, not even himself, attended much the old lord not at all. But the time passed. His lordship grew sleepy, began to nod, and seemed to forget his wine.
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