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"Your descriptions of your dealings with Lord Rintoul are frightfully unconscientious.... 'The Little Minister' ought to have ended badly; we all know it did, and we are infinitely grateful to you for the grace and good feeling with which you have lied about it. If you had told the truth, I for one could never have forgiven you.
We ken now it was about a woman. Ay, but does that make it less awful?" No, that did not make it less awful. It was even awful that Gavin's first words when Rintoul opened his eyes and closed them hastily were, "Where is she?" The earl did not answer; indeed, for the moment the words had no meaning to him. "How did I come here?" he asked feebly. "You should know better than I. Where is my wife?"
That is what perplexes me." "Yes, and me too, for it was a close secret between you and me and Lord Rintoul and not half-a-dozen others." "Well, find the woman, and we shall get the explanation. If she is still in the town she cannot escape, for my men are everywhere." "She was seen ten minutes ago." "Then she is ours.
Rintoul said angrily. "Why, only last week he told me that if I would get up two hours earlier and go for a brisk walk just after sunrise, and give up eating meat at tiffin, and confine myself to two or three dishes at dinner, I should be perfectly well in the course of a month; just as if I was in the habit of overeating myself, when I have scarcely the appetite of a sparrow.
I had been unstrung by the events of the evening, and fear at once pressed thick upon me that this might be a sequel to them, as indeed it was. While still out of sight the trap stopped, and I heard some one jump from it. Then came this conversation, as distinct as though it had been spoken into my ear: "Can you see the school-house now, McKenzie?" "I am groping for it, Rintoul.
At the roar, as they thought, of the cannon, the farmers looked up from their struggle with the flood to say, "That's Rintoul married," as clocks pause simultaneously to strike the hour. Then every one in the glen save Gavin and myself was done with Rintoul. Before the hills had answered the noise, Gavin was on his way to the Spittal.
"Where is she now?" cried Rintoul feverishly; but McKenzie, speaking loudly at the same time, tried to drown his interference as one obliterates writing by writing over it. "A strange companion for a schoolmaster," he said. "What became of her?" "I left her near Caddam Wood," I replied, "but she is probably not there now"
My uncle told me that he had applied to go with the detachment, and that the surgeon there would come back to the regiment while he is away." "I do call that hard," Mrs. Rintoul said. "The only thing I was glad we were going for was that we should be under Mr. M'Alaster, who is very pleasant, and quite understands my case, while Dr.
Bags were piled in readiness for closing this also in case of necessity. Mrs. Rintoul and another lady had volunteered for a third watch on the roof, so that each watch would go on duty once every twelve hours. The whole of the men, therefore, were available for work below.
Deceived by another story of Jean's, Margaret was the one happy person in the house. "I believe you had only a lover's quarrel with Lord Rintoul last night," she said to Babbie in the afternoon. "Ah, you see I can guess what is taking you to the window so often. You must not think him long in coming for you.
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