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Those grey eyes of Annas's seem to see everything. I am sure she saw that Flora would like a quiet talk with Lady Monksburn, and she carried me to see her peacocks and silver pheasants, which are great pets, she says; and they are so tame that they will come and eat out of her hand. Of course they were shy with me.
"My lassie," she said to Flora, "there's Miss Annas i' the garden, and Leddy Monksburn wad ha'e ye gang till Monksburn for a dish o' tea, and Miss Cary wi' ye." Flora's face lighted up. "Oh, how delightful!" she said. "Come, Cary come and see Annas Keith." I was very curious to see Annas, and I followed willingly.
Was not the asking done to teach us two things that He was very man, like ourselves, shrinking from pain and death as much as the very weakest of us can shrink, and also that we may ask anything and everything, if only we desire beyond it that God's will be done?" "Thank you," I said, drawing a long breath. Yes, I might ask my second question. "Lady Monksburn, what is it to trust the Lord Jesus?"
"I thank you, Miss Keith," said I. "I should like to come very much." "Annas, please," she said quietly, with that sweet smile of hers. It is only when she smiles that she reminds me of her brother. "And how are the Laird and Lady Monksburn?" said Flora. Annas smiled. "Our titles will seem odd to you," said she.
If I were going, I believe he would send her with me, to those friends of Lady Monksburn in the Isle of Wight. I thought Lady Monksburn looked rather anxious, and wistful too, when he spoke about it. Annas herself did not seem to care. "The Lord will not go to the Isle of Wight," she said, quietly. Oh, if I could feel as they do that God is everywhere, and that everywhere He is my Friend!
And then I got to Father and my Aunt Kezia; and then to Maria and Bessy; and then to Sam and Will; and then to old Elspie; and then to Helen Raeburn, and my Uncle Drummond, and Angus, and Mr Keith, and the Laird, and Lady Monksburn and so on and on, till the whole world seemed full of people to be prayed for. I suppose it is so always if we only thought of it!
Then came supper, and then Angus, who had cleared up wonderfully, and was more what he used to be as a boy, instead of the cross, gloomy young man he has seemed of late. Lady Monksburn offered to send a servant with arms to accompany us home, but Angus appeared to think it quite unnecessary. He had his dirk and a pistol, he said; and surely he could take care of two girls!
Annas said it had been the Abbots grange belonging to the old Abbey which gives its name to Abbotscliff and Monksburn, and several other estates and villages in the neighbourhood. Here we found Lady Monksburn in the drawing-room, busied with some soft kind of embroidered work; and I thought I could have guessed her to be the mother of Mr Keith.
He went at once to Monksburn, and came back with tidings that the Laird was very glad of the opportunity to send Annas southwards. And when my Uncle Drummond came in, though his lip trembled and her eyes pleaded earnestly, he said Flora must go too. And to-night Mr Keith brought news that men were up all over the Highlands, and that the Prince was marching on Perth.
She says my Uncle Drummond was very thankful to have her back again: but she can see that Lady Monksburn is greatly changed, and the Laird has so failed that he scarce seems the same man. Of herself she said nothing but one sentence, "Waiting, dear Cary, always waiting." From Angus we do not hear a word. Mr Raymond and Annas are to be married when their year of mourning is out.
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