He and the child were on the point of going out together for a walk, and without relinquishing her hand, the schoolmaster hurried away, leaving the messenger to follow as she might.
They stopped at a cottage-door, and the schoolmaster knocked softly at it with his hand.

It was opened without loss of time.

They entered a room where a little group of women were gathered about one, older than the rest, who was crying very bitterly, and sat wringing her hands and rocking herself to and fro.
'Oh, dame!' said the schoolmaster, drawing near her chair, 'is it so bad as this ?' 'He's going fast,' cried the old woman; 'my grandson's dying.

It's all along of you.

You shouldn't see him now, but for his being so earnest on it.