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Updated: August 27, 2024
Never since the old times, when she used "to empty her heart out" to Hamish, had she found such comfort in being listened to. When she came to the tea-table, after brushing away her tears, she seemed just as usual, Shenac Dhu thought; and yet not just the same, she found, when she looked again. She gave a little nod at her husband, who smiled back at her, and then she said softly to Mr Stewart,
She was flushed and feverish, and evidently in great pain. "I am afraid you are in pain," said Shenac, as she turned to her, offering to take the baby. "Yes; I let my sister go home too soon, and what with one thing and another, I am nearly as bad as ever again." And she pressed her hand on her breast as she spoke.
"Lightly! By no means. I was putting two solemn things together. I don't know which is more solemn. For my part, I would as soon feel the cold water creeping up my back, like " "Shenac," said our Shenac entreatingly, "don't say foolish things and vex my mother and Hamish." Her cousin put her hand on her mouth. "You have heard my last word."
The band was ready, too; and he turned the wheel and pulled out an imaginary thread with such gravity that all laughed. "Well, what do you think of it, girls?" he asked after a little time. "Will you have it, Miss Shenac?" "I should like to borrow it for a month," said Shenac with a sigh. "It a'n't to be lent nor to be borrowed," said the peddler; "leastways, it a'n't for me to lend.
For Shenac had a natural love for pretty things, and it was pleasant to feel that she might gratify her taste to a reasonable degree without hazarding the comfort of any one.
He has a strong will of his own, and if it comes into his mind that you or any one, except our mother, is trying to govern him, he'll slip through our fingers some fine day." "You've been taking a leaf out of Angus Dhu's book. There's no fear of Dan," said Shenac.
Shenac Dhu, as a general thing, was able enough to take her own part; but she looked a little shamefaced at the moment, and said nothing. "What did they say, Dan?" asked Allister, laughing. Shenac Dhu need not have feared. Dan went on to say, "I have been telling our Shenac that she will have to `knock under, now that you are come home; but she says she is not afraid."
After the first day or two, Shenac tried faithfully to fall back into her old household ways or, rather, she tried to settle into some helpful place in her brother's household. The wheel was put to use again, and, indeed, there was need, for all things had lagged a little during the summer; and Shenac did her day's work, and more, as she used to do.
Shenac made an incredulous movement. "I am perfectly well," said she. "Yes; but you are changed. You are much thinner than you used to be, and sometimes you look pale and very weary, and you are a great deal older-looking." "Well, I am older than I used to be," said Shenac. She rose and crossed the room to look at herself in the glass. "I don't see any difference," she added, after a moment.
"I never cast it up to you, Shenac Dhu," said she hastily. "I never spoke to any one but himself; and I was sorry as soon as I said it." "You need not be. He thought none the worse of you, after the first anger. But, Shenac, my father is not so hard a man as folk think. I do believe he is less glad for the money than he is for Allister and you all. If Evan would only come home!
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