HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1906-11-23, Page 3"I dinna ken what's come to ye," said
Uncle Sandy, in very discontented tones,
as he pushed away his plate and held
out the tea cup he had just emptied, to
be replenished. "There canna be better
or purer air than at Oraigdarrach. It's
aye west or south; yet there's Mona wi'
a bad headache, wanting her her break-
fast in her room, an' Mr. Leslie loolin'
—nae, but ye look better than ye did
yesterday,' looking at him, 'only ye dinna
eat. What's a bit haddie an' a mouthfu'
o' toast to stay a coon's stomach i' the
moraine"
"Oh, I'm all the better for my ram-
ble with Kenneth yesterday."
'You are well-nigh yoursel' again; but
She met itis eyes as she spoke, dlnd
something of indescribable tenderness' in
them made her heart stand still.: She
rose and went to the window.
"It is cold and raw to -day," she said,
with a slight shiver.
Returningto the fire, she leaned
against the mantel -piece. Waring put
his arms on the top of a high-backed
chair opposite her, and said, with a quick
sigh:
"The days cannot be too dark and
dreary to suit my spirit. 1 cannot gather
courage enough to think of Monday!"
"It is coming very fast," said Mona,
softly, and keeping. her eyes fixed on the
fire, but feeling that Waring's were fas-
tened on herself.
I was feared ye'd be goin' too far when "Will you think me weak, selfish,
I heard ye hadna come back at tea time." warthless, if I cannot leave you without
I left Kenneth, because be was going saying how dearly I love you? To think
further on. I came back by Monkscleugh how near I came to calling you my wife;
and the oak wood. I hope Miss Craigs and now we are but strangers to each
headache is not severe." other. Don't you. sea how bitterly hard
"She's more tired -like than in pain. it was? Oh, you were right to break
She wants quiet. Aweel, she went to with me it you could not love me. It
bed airly enough," quoth Uncle Sandy, would have .been misery to us both if
"to get it." you could not 'have loved me. But it
"I dare say she will come
down soon. Jessie says there is a
new brood of chickens out, Mr. Craig,
said Mary. "Twelve wee birdies, all
strong and lively."
"Ay, that's varra good. Now there's
anther fast early train to Glasgow, we'll
dispose o' good pairt o' the poultry varra
profitably. I'll go down and look at the
chuckies, if Mona were here."
"And wouldn't you take my arm, Mr.
Craig, for want of a better?" said Mary,
blushing very sweetly.
"Yes, I wilt, my •bairnie," said the old
man, ]coking at her indulgently. Sandy
Graig had a great liking for a pretty
face. "We'll go and have a crack wi'
the hen -wife."
Later, Mona, thinking from the pro-
• found stillness that she had the house to
herself, came from the seclusion of her
own room to the drawing -room. She bad
been greatly agitated by her interview
with Lisle, and greatly distressed, on
reflection, to think she had trusted the
secret of her love for Waring to a inan
whom she could not help Considering an
enemy. Yet she did not quite wish her
was all utter despair at the time! To
think that you preferred poverty and
the desertion of your •relatives to me,
and all I could have•given you then!"
"Ah, Mr. Waring!" cried. Mona, cover-
ing her face with her hands, "can you
forgive me?"
"I do not reproach you," he returned,
`I was not worthy of you, or I should
not have gone to the bad as I did, be-
cause I was disappointed. But when 1
came back to life from that terrible
fever, I felt another man. I felt I had
d, duty to myself that forbade this un-
manly abandonment, and I have been
stronger ever since. I was even getting
over the painful longing for you. And
naw we have met, and I am worse titan
ever! And you, you seem sweeter than
ever. I feel as if I could not leave you!"
He pushed the chair from him, and
came to stand beside her, his eyes full
of love and sorrow, his plain face beauti-
fied by the spirit that animated him.
The fire of heaven seemed to Mona to
have descended on her heart, and filleli
it with Joy unspeakable. She let her
words unsaid. She wished .to honor the hands drop, and, quivering from head to
man she preferred, in the eyes of the foot, she almost whispered:
rival who despised him; but she hoped
and !prayed that the knowledge of this
admission aright never reach Waring.
Perhaps, indeed probably, he had formed
some fresh attachment, which held his
heart against her. "After all," she
thought As she stopped to look at her-
self in a long glass at, the end of the
room, and saw that the long, straight
folds and close -fitting bodice of her dark
blue serge, with the broad band and
buckle that showed the easy roundness of
her waist, the scarf of old lace round her
throat, the soft., wavy masses of her red-
dish -gold hair, became her well—"after
ale I am not worse -looking than I used
to be; but that does not matter,"
Witr a sigh she opened the piano, and
began to play dreamily. How fast the
days were •slipping away. Tomorrow
would be his Iast at Craigdarroeh, and
then good-bye forever.
"Is the headache quite gone?" said
Waring, coming up behind her.
Mona started, and changed dolor.
"Yes, nearly gone. You startled me,
Then do not leave me."
"Ah, Mona," said Waring, drawing
close to her, "do not tempt me to a re-
newal of suffering! I am too desperate-
ly in earnest to be playedfwith; and I
dare not hope that you, who rejected me
When I could have given you a life of
ease, would share my wild, uncouth home
with me now. Sweetest, how dare 1
hope!"
He drew her gently into his arms.
"Take me with you," said Monza, rais-
ing her eyes to his, and letting him read
in them more than words could say,
"My darling, it is more than I can
believe! Mona, in our short engagement
I do not believe you ever gave me a kiss.
If you will give yourself to me now, put
your arms around my neck and kiss me
of your own free will."
There was an instant's hesitation, and
then her arms stole gently to his neck,
and her lips were pressed to the brown
cheek he bent to them, but for a second,
before his own lips were on hers, cling-
ing to them softly, passionately, as if he
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mouth.
``No, not yet! r cannot let you go yet.
Tell me, when did you lin to love me?"
"1 cannot tell, 7,eerie, I have never
been indifferent to yot! 'et'nce—since Ie
refused to marry you; Ana .when I saw
your soon began to thunk 'T' should like
to atone to you"•
"Then it is only pity, Perhaps?„
"I do not know what it is: said Mona,
with a sigh, as she rested her head
against his shoulder; "I only know that
you must not leave me,”
"And all this time of delicious tor-
ture!" cried Waring, "when I ruled my-
self with a rod of, iron lest I should
show, you the Iove the -ewes burning my
heart out, you imposed upon me with
iciness of mere friendship. No man could
have dreamed that there was any warmth
under such an exterior."
"How did you cometo speak to me
at last?" asked Mona, with a smile.
"It was an inspiration," said Waring.
"I do not know ho* ';many kisses you
owe me for the miserable moments 7
have had here."
"No more now, dear, Leslie," she said,
in a low voice, her check growing pale,
her frame trembling, se he drew her
to him.
"Not one?" he whispered, and he re-
leased. her. while his heart beat with the
glorious consciousness that she loved as
passionately as he did himself. "I am
afraid, Mona," he resumed, after a de-
licious silence, "that young:uncle will not
like to let you come into the wilds with
me. But the place is not really bad;
it has been cleared for a considerable
time, and—"
"Poor Uncle Sandy!" she interrupted.
"1 think he would be willing to give you
the best he had; and I'am by no moans
sure that he considers me that."
"Needs must. He will miss you dread-
fully"
"Then will be the opportunity to sug-
gest Mary as my successor."
".Exactly. Shall I ask Kenneth to join
me in making a double demand? You
are the ruling spirit Here.".
"That would be too much. But, pray,
speak to my uncle to -day. He deserves
to he told at once."
* * * * * * *
Dinner was got through somehow.
Both Kenneth and Marys instinctively
felt that something or other had taken
place, the former hada shrewd idea
what.
About a couple of hours after the fam-
ily meal, a knock was heard. at the door
of Mona's room, where she had entrench-
ed herself till the been
explanation
with her uncle had been accomplished.
"Your uncle wants to speak to you,
Mona," said Waring. ��
"Oil, Leslie! How is i>ie?
"The glass is .at fair ]weather. Come
along."
Uncle Sandy was looping pale, and
was sitting unusually ;upright in his
arm -chair in the libra -'' when Mona,
with downcast eyes, and e air of a eu-
rit, came in, closely f ed by Waring.
"Aweel" he said in inn and some-
what tremulous ton ,been hear-
ing what the grandso g auld mais-
ter has to say. No, Me my bairn, are
you willing to tak' this mon to be your
wedded husband?"
"I am,• uncle," she said, softly but
clearly.
A
you were both seated here. I hesitated
and lost my chance of appearing, until I
heard too much to make it advisable to
show myself. Then' 1 listened, and if
even a fellow was lifted into the high-
est heaven of pride and delight, I was
that day."
"What! Did you hear everything I
said?"
"Every word! So that I did not know
how to behave myself like a rational
creature, and pretended all the evening
to be dead tired. You see, it would nev-
er have done to let you know. But if I
had not heard from your own lips that
you liked me—well, better than Lisle,
( should never have ,broken silence."
"It it possible? h undestand though!
It is well you kept the secret. 1 should
have been so awfully vexed."
"Yes, I knew that."
"Just imagine my ever baying hidden
things from you, and being a stranger,
and fearing you should look into my
heart and see what a goose I was. We
could never misunderstand each other
now,. we have grown so like."
"`As the husband, so the wife is—
thou art mated. to a clown!'" quoted
Waring, laughing.
"Hush!" she interrupted; "you shall
not say impertinent things of my guid
man! But it 'is nearly half -past four;
we must go back. Mary ordered the car-
riage for us to go and meet General and
Mrs. Fielden at five, and you know
what a punctual little house -mother she
it."
"Very well; but first you might give
a fellow a kiss for the sake of old
times."
"Yes, for past and present both, my
own dear."
"If ye are, nane has a right to with-
stan' you. I would be weele content if
ye had not to gas sae far awa'; and I'll
feel your loss air, but ye maun follow
the husband you've chosen."
"Dear uncle," said Mona, ' the tears
hanging on her long Iaches,, "it will grieve
me, too, to leave you; you have been a
father to me, and I thank you."
She knelt beside hint and kissed his
thin hand.
"An' a father I'll be to ye, my lambie.
Mrs. Leslie, my niece, shall have five
thoosand pounds to her tocher; and it's
glad. I'll be that some of my hard earn-
in's go to the son of the hoose by which
I earned it. But I'll be a lonely mon
when ye leave me."
"You need not be, unless you choose.
'You can have aniece to read to you
and write for you, and take care of you.
Think of it, uncle dear! Make Kenneth
as happy as—as I am."
"Yes, uncle—for you must let me call
you so. There could not be a. better or
more suitable wife fotmd .for Kenneth
than the one he has found for himself,"
cried Waring.
"Aweel, aweel, I will think of
it; but, my lad, ye maun pro-
mise me you'll bring Mona back to
see me once mair before I. die:'
"I do promise you, Uncle Sandy; faith-
fully promise you.'
The dramatic taste of moderns will
not permit that minute description of
fortune to each character which all well
constituted readers ought to demand.
None of ours came however to any tragic
end. nor was Leslie's confirmed bachelor-
hood very detrimental to his happiness.
For the satisfaction of that estimable
but diminutive portion of the public who
would "ask for more," the curtain shall
go up for a few minutes on the last tab-
leaus.
Winter and summer had come and
gone three times, and a glorying autumn
sun was gilding the hills and deepening care in avoiding the use of second roto
the purple heather, when Mona and her expressions, a care specially needed
husband strolled together once more to among those whose circle of acquaint -
the sent by the big milt tree, asses is small. In addition, it is always
"After all, Leslie,' I believe I love this
view the best of any." worth while to knowthe meaning of the
words
"I am quite sure I do," said Waring, a 0j_d f me
ousnovelist, whose books are
smile stealing mho his brown eyes and just now widely read, has literally
spreading over his healthy,:, happy face. asked strewn the pages of one of them with a
word which a glance at the dictionary
(The End.)
SOME ERRORS OF SPEECH.
111 Selected
Words and Expressions That
Are Often Used.
I am sometimes surprised when a man
or woman—usually a woman, though
why I cannot say—af quite excellent
education fairly flounders in a sea of ill
selected words, says a writer in the
Queen.
Her worst faults are often due to re-
dundancy; site will net give utterance
to a simple, straightforward statement.
If she expresses an opinion, it is to
say, "I think it is very unwise to do
that—that is what. I think." If she reads
a letter aloud it is studded with "she
says" from start to finish. "She says,
'We intend going to town soon for a
week, and then abroad for July,' she
says," and so on. From. a person of
wide culture and education I have been
,truck demi) by an assurance that she
"never would be any different," with
the added comment that, after all, "1.1
makes no matter." HOW anyone with
the merest vestige of an ear can coin
such a verb as "to make a matter" it
is difficult to understand.
But it is not only in conversation that
these and similar expressions find. place.
It becomes harder each year to discover
a novel in which the characters, intended
to be those of cultured people, discourse
as such. I note with distressing fre-
quency that someone has "saved"—not
her money, when the expression is per -
featly correct, nor her household goods
from the flames, but a yard of ribbon
or her grandmother's letters.
'What is the matter?" is surely ex-
plicit enough. Why, therefore, ssvy
"Whatever is the matter?" But (worse
than this is the slipshod "You will never
do that?" rather than "You don't intend
doing that?" or "Nothing would surely
persuade you to do that?" perhaps fol-
lowed, on the unexpected arrival of a
friend, by "That is never you!" or "You
are quite a strangers"
I have on one occasion heard a woman
of • outward refinement and amazingly
careful manner observe: "You must
take those gloves off Ethel; they will fit
you better than they do her."
May gardener having informed me a
few days previously that he had had
some plants "off" another gardener, I
was able to understand the meaning the
expression was intended to convey.
My plea is, first of all, for greater
very. large 'one, for limited is the con-
trary' to unlimited, and is not eysion-
yanous with small, "A verbal message"
means a message in• words, and may be
either written or spoken. If spoken, it
is an oral message. The daily papers in
their Paa)iamentary reports. aro cornet
in referring to "questions not orally an-
swered," and their reporters are among
the few who use the word in its true
sense. To "replace" a thing is to put it
back where it was. A Prime Minister
resigns, but he is afterwards replaced in
office. Thus replace is not synonymous
with substitute.
To decimate is to take one-tenth, so
an army if decimated has •lost a tenth
of its men.
1 have too many weak spots in my ,
own. English to do more than draw at- •
tention to common mistakes, into many
of which I have myself fallen, sometimes
to be dragged out again by a mark of
exclamation and a comment in the mar-
gin by a much tried editor, and. to this
salutary treatment I owe, at any rate,
a diminution in my verbal errors.
There are certain expressions which at
one time were used exclusively by a. sin
gle class. They were copied by one lower
in the social sealo, and have consequent-
ly been abandoned by the other. Of these
"mama" is a notable instance, and pos-
sibly "auntie," though I think the latter
was never used except among somewhat
homely people. Still more striking ex-
amples are "lady" and `gentleman," for
which `woman" and "man" are now al-
ways substituted.
Mona, settling her head comfortably
against his shoulder.
"Because --well, I will tell you a secret,
the only one I have had from you."
"How dare you, sir? Confess at once!"
"Well, I don't think you'll mind now.
The day before you deigned to accept
me, 1Ahad been roaming about with Ken-
neth, and got tired of everything, life
included, so I Ieft and strolledtip the
hollow there until 1 found myself beside
those big.• stones, where the bracken
still grows so high, and I threw myself
down among them, and . thought what an
unhappy devil I was, when I heard Lisle's
'voice close by, and before I could stir,
would have told. her has a very unpleas-
ant meaning, quite other than that else
attributes to it.
It is even desirable to avoid such very
common errors as "it appeared to be a
paradox," "mutual friends," "a limited
income," "a verbal message,' "replaced
by another," "enitrelq decimated,' etc.
A paradox is "a seeming absurdity,"
therefore a thing either is or is not a
paradox—It cannot semi to be a seeming
absurdity. Ieriendship «nay be mutual,
but if two know another person they
have a common. and not a mutual,
Mold, "A limited income" may be a
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