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What, did ye not hear me turn the saucy baggage off?" "Ay, ay. We all heard ye," said Reicht, with vast indifference. "Then hear me!" said Denys solemnly. They all went round like things on wheels, and fastened their eyes on him. "Ay, let us hear what the man says," urged the hostess. "Men are fine fellows, with their great hoarse voices."
"I am told so every day of my life." "You need not have been afraid to tell my mistress; she is always kind to true lovers." "Madam Reicht I was afraid because I was told..." "Well, you were told ?" "That in your youth you scorned love, preferring art." "I did, boy; and what is the end of it?
That night as Reicht was in her first sleep a hand gently pressed her shoulder, and she awoke, and was going to scream, "Whisht," said Margaret, and put her finger to her lips. She then whispered, "Rise softly, don thy habits, and come with me!" When she came down, Margaret begged her to loose Dragon and bring him along.
"I' God's name, what said he to thee, Reicht?" "Alas! Margaret, I told him thy story, and I prayed him for our Lady's sake tell me where thy Gerard is, And I waited long for an answer, and presently a voice came like a trumpet: 'Pray for the soul of Gerard the son of Eli!" "Ah!" "Oh, woe is me that I have this to tell thee, sweet Margaret! bethink thee thou hast thy boy to live for yet."
So then Margaret went sorrowfully to the pretty manse to see it for the last time, ere it should pass for ever into stranger's hands. "I think he would have been happy here," she said, and turned heart-sick away. On their return, Reicht Heynes proposed to her to go and consult the hermit. "What," said Margaret, "Joan has been at you. She is the one for hermits.
Now Dragon could kill a wolf in a brace of shakes; but then Dragon would not go with her, but only with Reicht; so altogether she made one confidante. The next night they made another moonlight reconnaissance, and as I think, with some result.
"Ay, lad, I mind o' ye the noo!" "The jolliest supper ever I had a haggis you called it." "Ay, did I, my fine lad. I cookit it till ye myssel. Ye meicht help me for ane." "I will," said Captain Ede; and a conference took place in a whisper between him and his men. "It is a' reicht the noo!" thought McLaughlan. "We have an offer to make you," said Ede, respectfully. "Let us hear't."
"The white siller's my taste." Flucker. "Na! there's aye some deevelish trick in thir lassie's stories. I shall ha to, till the ither lads hae chused; the mair part will put themsels oot, ane will hit it off reicht maybe, then I shall gie him a hidin' an' carry off the lass. You-hoo!" Jean Carnie. "That's you, Flucker." Christie Johnstone.
Who would bide among hard-hearted folk that ha' driven her lad t' Italy, and now he is gone, relent not, but face it out, and ne'er come anigh her that is left?" "Reicht, I was going." "Oh, ay, going, and going, and going. Ye should ha' said less or else done more. But with your words you did uplift her heart and let it down wi' your deeds.
Margaret Brandt sent word to Reicht to stay in the house till such time as she could find the heart to put foot in it, and miss the face and voice that used to meet her there; and to take special care of the picture "in the little cubboord:" meaning the diptych. The next thing was, Luke Peterson came home, and heard that Gerard was a monk. He was like to go mad with joy.
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