11/17 She gaed awa--it's just twa days sin syne. She was sair vexed to leave Cairnforth and the minister." "Leave her father ?" "A man maun leave father and mither, and cleave unto his wife--the scripture says it. And a woman maun just do the like for her man, ye ken. Miss Helen's awa to France, or some sic place, wi' her husband, Captain Bruce." The earl was sitting in the stern of the ferry-boat alone, no one being near him but Sandy, and Malcolm, who had taken the second oar. To old Sandy's communication he replied not a word--asked not a single question more--and was lifted out at the end of the five-minutes' passage just as usual. |