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Woodbourne; 'I am ashamed to see you resort to such a foolish subterfuge. 'I did not remember it, said Katherine; 'I am sure I should never have gone if I had, but Lizzie was so bent upon it. 'Again throwing the blame upon others, said Mr. Woodbourne; 'your sister has set you a far better example.
We return to the party at Woodbourne. After the departure of Mannering, the conversation related chiefly to the fortunes of the Ellangowan family, their domains, and their former power. 'It was, then, under the towers of my fathers, said Bertram, 'that I landed some days since, in circumstances much resembling those of a vagabond!
But they stick to it, that they 'll be streekit, and hae an auld wife when they're dying to rhyme ower prayers, and ballants, and charms, as they ca' them, rather than they'll hae a minister to come and pray wi' them that's an auld threep o' theirs; and I am thinking the man that died will hae been ane o' the folk that was shot when they burnt Woodbourne.
'Then do you think Papa and Mamma will be displeased? said Dora; 'I do not think Lizzie thinks so. 'I cannot be quite sure, said Helen; 'but I do not think Lizzie chooses to believe that they will. 'But let me understand you, Helen, said Lucy; 'I only know that you think that Uncle Woodbourne would not approve of your going. What are your reasons for thinking so?
Hazlewood was, however, so far from eagerly looking forward to this prospect, though it had the recommendation that great part of the land was his father's, and must necessarily be his own, that his head still turned backward towards the chimneys of Woodbourne, although at every step his horse made the difficulty of employing his eyes in that direction become greater.
I shall be much gratified indeed if you can render Woodbourne as pleasant to Miss Bertram as Ellangowan was to me when I first came as a wanderer into this country. The young lady courtesied acquiescence, and took her new friend's hand.
Hazleby was delighted to taste a blackcock once more, and was full of reminiscences of Inchlitherock; and by means of these recollections, and Rupert's newly imported histories, Sir Edward and Mr. Woodbourne contrived to make the conversation more entertaining than Elizabeth thought it ever could be in any party in which Mrs. Hazleby was present.
Confident, therefore, in himself, he appeared at Woodbourne about ten in the morning, and was admitted as a gentleman come to wait upon Miss Bertram. He did not announce himself until he was at the door of the breakfast-parlour, when the servant, by his desire, said aloud "Mr. Glossin, to wait upon Miss Bertram.
'It is certainly rather a strong word, said Lady Merton, 'but you will allow me to say that she has a great dread of her; I think Mrs. Hazleby scolds and frightens her. 'What a fury she must be, said Anne, laughing, 'to be able to scold and frighten such a gentle Desdomona as Mrs. Woodbourne.
Woodbourne, however, who was no great admirer of Rupert's forwardness, did not shew so much deference to his nephew's opinion as to make him very unwilling to return to the inner drawing-room, when Anne came to tell him that all the poems were finished, and Elizabeth ready to read them aloud.
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