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Only a moment did young McKenzie's anxiety to be spokesman give me to regard Lord Rintoul. I saw that he was a thin man and tall, straight in the figure, but his head began to sink into his shoulders and not very steady on them. His teeth had grip of his under-lip, as if this was a method of controlling his agitation, and he was opening and shutting his hands restlessly.
"I remember now," Rintoul repeated several times. "Yes, I had left the Spittal to look for you you were so long in coming. How did I find you?" "It was I who found you," Gavin answered. "You must have been swept away by the flood." "And you too?" In a few words Gavin told how he came to be beside the earl. "I suppose they will say you have saved my life," was Rintoul's commentary.
"Both your boys," the Major laughed, "and Doolan and Rintoul." "When do we go, uncle?" "Next Monday. I shall get somebody to put us up from Friday, and that morning we will get everything dismantled here, and send them off by bullock carts with the servants to Deennugghur, so that they will be there by Monday morning.
Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one has the impulse, may be braver than the doing of it. "Though it seemed as lang time," the shepherd says, "as I could hae run up a hill in, I dinna suppose it was many minutes afore I saw Rintoul opening and shutting his een. The next glint I had o' them they were speaking to ane another; ay, and mair than speaking. They were quarrelling.
Doolan said to Isobel, as they walked back from one of these meetings, "as long as one only sees them under ordinary circumstances. I have never had any patience with Mrs. Rintoul, with her constant complaining and imaginary ailments. Now that there is really something to complain about, she is positively one of the calmest and most cheerful among us.
Doolan and the others think about it." At Mrs. Doolan's Isobel found quite an assembly. Mrs. Rintoul had come in almost in tears, and the two young lieutenants had dropped in with Captain Doolan, while one or two other officers had come round to commiserate with Mrs. Doolan. "Another victim," the latter said, as Isobel entered. "You look too cheerful, Miss Hannay.
"Rintoul carried her off with no possible purport," he said, "but to set my marriage at defiance, and she has had a conviction always that to marry me would be to ruin me. It was only in the shiver Lord Rintoul's voice in the darkness sent through her that she yielded to my wishes.
"Sometimes," she continued, more gently, "I try to think that my mother did come back for me, and then went away because she heard I was in better hands than hers. It was Lord Rintoul who found me, and I owe everything to him. You will say that he has no need to be proud of me. He took me home on his horse, and paid his gardener's wife to rear me.
"There may be times," Babbie said, most woeful that she had not married Rintoul, "when it is best to marry a man though we do not love him." "You are wrong, Babbie," Margaret answered gravely; "if I know anything at all, it is that." "It may be best for others." "Do you mean for one other?" Margaret asked, and the girl bowed her head. "Ah, Babbie, you speak like a child." "You do not understand."
"She is a distant relation a second cousin of some Scotch lord or other, and, on the strength of that and her husband's colonelcy, gives herself prodigious airs. Three of the captains are married. Mrs. Doolan is a merry little Irish woman. You will like her. She has two or three children. She is a general favorite in the regiment. "Mrs. Rintoul I suppose she is here still, Major, and unchanged?
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