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If sometimes the meanness and selfishness of his conduct dawned upon her mind, the feeling was instantly repressed, and as far as possible banished, in obedience to the instinct of loyalty to Garthowen, which was so strong a trait in her character. She turned again to look at her necklace in the pool, and caught sight of a speck of vivid scarlet on the brow of the hill another and another.
Wild and mischievous and full of pranks he was, but the truest, the kindest boy in the world was Gethin Owens Garthowen." "And Will?" "Will was a good boy always, but I never loved him as I loved the other.
"Yes, indeed, I am very glad, whatever. Garthowen will be full again; it has been very empty lately." She was thinking of Gethin, unconsciously, perhaps, and hung her head a little guiltily when Will said: "Thou didst miss me, then?" "Of course we all missed thee thy father especially." "More than thee, Morva?" She sighed. "'Tis this way, Will. I am tired of this secrecy.
When I came to myself, and saw the bare, whitewashed walls of the hospital, the foreign nurses moving about very kind and tender they were, too, but 'twasn't Morva Garthowen slopes, Morva, the mill and the moor had all gone, and when I saw where I was, what will you think of me, Sara, when I tell you I cried like a little child, like I did the day when I tore myself away from little Morva long ago, when I ran away from home, and heard her calling after me, 'Gethin!
It was a sore point at Garthowen that Ebben Owens' own brother had so completely ignored his relationship with him; and Will's hopes of success were greatly sweetened by the thought that in time he might hold his head as high as his uncle's, and bring that proud man to his senses; but to-day as he stood waiting at Mr.
And if all the world is going to turn against him because his love for his son did prove stronger than his honesty, why! it's home to Garthowen I'll go, to cheer him and to love him, and to show the world that I for one will stick to him, weak or strong, upright or sinful!" "Gethin bâch! thou know'st what real love is! Love that no folly or weakness, or even sin, in the dear one can alter.
He had lived at Garthowen for many years as one of the family, being the son of an old friend of Ebben Owens. Having a small very small income of his own, he was able to devote his services to the chapel in the valley, expecting and receiving nothing in return but a pittance, for which no other minister would have been willing to work.
"How you women can live day after day with a roaring fire I can't think but come, Sara, on with your story." "Well!" she said, "all the way from Garthowen I have come to fetch thee, Gethin, and thou must come home with me." "Would Morva like to see me?" he said, in a low, uncertain voice. "Oh! Gethin, thou art a foolish man, and a blind man!
"Wait a bit," said Mrs. Jones. "You can write, Sara?" "Yes, in Welsh," said the old woman. "Well, then, send a letter, and Tom will take it for you." Sara took her advice, and, putting on her spectacles, wrote as follows: "Sara Lloyd, Garthowen Moor, is writing to thee, Gethin Owens, to say she is here at Mrs. Jones's, No. 2 Bryn Street, with good news for thee.
"We'll have to tie a few weights to you by and by, I'm thinking, or you'll be blown away," said the captain, as he kindly arranged some boxes and baskets so as to shelter her a little from the strong March wind. "Am I the only passenger?" "Yes. 'Tis mostly goods we carry, but sometimes we have a stray passenger. And where would you be going now so far from Garthowen Moor in your old age?"
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