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"I think of John Cuthbert de Mertoun," he said in a low voice. "It aids me to hold the torment at bay." He spoke the words with some shyness, as if feeling that one older than himself might smile at the romantic wildness of his fancy. But this my Lord Dunstanwolde did not, understanding him full well, and lying a hand on his pressed it with warm affection.
I will accept no invitation for dinner, save one to Newton-Don, and Mertoun to-morrow, instead of Christmas Day. On this day of general devotion I have a particular call for gratitude!! My God! what poor creatures we are!
"But," he said to himself, and smiled in saying it, "it is because I am a happy man, and am living like one who dreams. Men have ridden before on such errands. Hugh de Mertoun rode so four hundred years gone, to a grey castle in the far north of Scotland, to make his suit to a fair maiden whose beauties he had but heard rumour of and whose face he had never seen.
"Would he make me a suit?" "Why, yes. I'll give you a card to him and you go in there when you're in New York and pick out what you want." "Oh! He wouldn't make them and send them out here to me? Sears-Roebuck do, if you send your measure. They're in Chicago." "I never had any duds built in Chicago, so I don't know them. But I shouldn't think Mertoun would want to fit a man he'd never seen.
And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him. 'Tis Gerald Mertoun I may live in dread of, if Gerald Mertoun is not my help and stay."
We returned from Mertoun after breakfast through an incipient snowstorm, coming on partially, and in great flakes, the sun bursting at intervals through the clouds. At last Die Wolken laufen zusammen. We made a slow journey of it through the swollen river and heavy roads, but here we are at last. I am rather sorry we expect friends to-day, though these friends be the good Fergusons.
I went down to Mertoun with Colonel Ferguson, who returned to dine here, which consumed time so much that I made a short day's work. Had the grief to find Lady Scott had insisted on coming downstairs and was the worse of it. Also a letter from Lockhart, giving a poor account of the infant. God help us! earth cannot. April 22. Lady Scott continues very poorly. Better news of the child.
God bless you, man, and call on Gerald Mertoun for a friend's service when you need it."
Anne, who had been at Mertoun the day before, brought up Anne and Elizabeth Scott with her, and Francis has been with us since yesterday. Richardson left us. September 3. Went on with my arranging of papers till twelve, when I took chaise and arrived at Melville Castle. Found Lord and Lady M. and the two young ladies. Dr.
'Twas a fierce voice, the voice of a brave creature who feared none of them; though 'twas a rich voice and a woman's, and so rang with authority that it actually checked the tempest for a moment and made the leaders turn to look. She made her way nearer and threw back her hood from her face. "I am Clorinda Mertoun, who is Duchess of Osmonde," she cried to them. "There are many of you know me.
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