Little Golden's Daughter

ry eyes of John Glenalvan glaring upon him, while Elinor,

meaning of this singular scene

folded arms in dignified silence,

ave made the acquaintance of your

in the moonlight. She bit her lips fiercel

dly he was raging with anger, but he allowed no trace of it to escape him

do so," said the

looked around a

ouse," he said. "I will

er had commanded. Instead, she hid herself behind a clump of willo

enied that John Glenalvan had any right to call him to account for w

wrongfully. I stand ready to answer to Golden's grandfather for any wrong he

, with repressed passion

er freedom," said Bertram Chesleigh, indignantly. "It is your fault alone that s

her mother's," said John

trayed furtively to the quiet lake, lying

rstand you," said t

hen he spoke it was with an affectat

rces me to the disclosure of a most painful family secret-one that I would fain have gua

the listener

sed, because his voic

n is the child of my own and only sister, but-how shall I tell you-

sleigh's feet. He staggered back dizzily, and

him through the trees with vindictive eyes. "Ah, my defiant Gold

it. You are but trying my cred

blish a falsehood to my own d

od, this is too dr

her weakly insisted on rearing her himself, and I was injudicious enough to permit it. The only stipulation I made was that she should be kept away from the sight of th

m Chesleigh, in a voice of agony. "The child is so pure and innoc

erhaps you will agree to relinquish your useless pursuit of her. You woul

mbled along like one in a painful dream, his gray head bowed as

Golden with a sense of her wrong-doing and disobedienc

g, and shivering silently at old Dinah's

to his granddaughter until h

hair, and his gray head

med to have deprived hi

eet and laid her gold

dpa, you have been so hard and strict with me; you have kept me too secluded. If you h

Dinah, trying to pull her away. "You don't know what you talkin' 'bout.

, but the old man waved his hand feebly to deta

nd poured a little between the whi

k to me!" wail

her almost sternly

den, you have enamost kilt him no

bright head drooped on the arm of the chair, and she wept bitterly, more from fright at

, and the sight of his suffering

d Dinah busied herself in a

air, sitting with his head bowed forlo

himself and looked around him

ill, or if I am it is with a sickness beyond mortal healing. Golden's

elf impulsively a

led. "I shall die if you do no

. He only looked at h

oped to keep the secret all my life; but the time has com

s a brack day when John Glenalvan kem here dat mornin' a-a

. She went out, and Golden turned her beautiful eyes, lik

mething of my mother at last. I have so longed

lf through Hugh Gle

" he replied. "But the telling w

face grew wh

then Elinor and Clare told

checked the res

ing of your acquaintance with my son's visitor. You must now give me the history of what further intercourse has pas

verspread with warm, crimson blushes. No wo

erfectly sacred and inviolate," he continued. "I could not have believed that you, the