If you determine for the combat, I will do my best to persuade her to look on the matter as the other good womanhood in the burgh will do; and if you resolve to let the matter rest--the man who has lost his life for yours remaining unavenged, the widow and the orphans without any reparation for the loss of a husband and father--I will then do you the justice to think that I, at least, ought not to think the worse of you for your patience, since it was adopted for love of my child.

But, Henry, we must in that case remove ourselves from bonny St.Johnston, for here we will be but a disgraced family." Henry groaned deeply, and was silent for an instant, then replied: "I would rather be dead than dishonoured, though I should never see her again! Had it been yester evening, I would have met the best blade among these men at arms as blythely as ever I danced at a maypole.

But today, when she had first as good as said, 'Henry Smith, I love thee!' Father Glover; it is very hard.

Yet it is all my own fault.

This poor unhappy Oliver! I ought to have allowed him the shelter of my roof, when he prayed me in his agony of fear; or; had I gone with him, I should then have prevented or shared his fate.