But the two men, though they also said nothing, remembered the expression of his face to their dying day.
"Take me home, Malcolm; I will go to the Manse another time.

Carry me in your arms--the quickest way." Malcolm lifted his master, and carried him, just as in the days when the earl was a child, through the pleasant woods of Cairnforth, up to the Castle door.
Nobody had expected them, and there was nothing ready.
"It's no matter--no matter," feebly said the earl, and allowed himself to be placed in an arm-chair by the fire in the housekeeper's room.

There he sat passive.
"Will I bring the minister ?" whispered Malcolm, respectfully.

"Maybe ye wad like to see him, my lord." "No, no." "His lordship's no weel please," said the housekeeper to Mrs.Campbell, when the earl leant his head back, and seemed to be sleeping.

"Is it about the captain's marriage: Did he no ken ?" "Ne'er a word o't" "That was great lack o'respect on the part o' Captain Bruce, and he sic a pleasant young man; and Helen, too.