The Marquis of Lossie

approached the grated door, unlocked it, and looked in with a shudder. It was dark, the other end of it being obscured by trees, and the roots of the hill on whose top stood the temple of the winds.

towards it and enter by a little door into its bosom was like a visit to her grave. But she gathered her strength, entered with a shudder, passed in growing hope and final safety through it, and at the other end came out again into the light, only the cold of its death seemed to cling to her still. But the day had grown colder; the clouds that, seen or unseen, ever haunt the winter sun, had at length ca

had the ignis fatuus of a false love brought her! She had dreamed heedlessly, to awake sorrowfully. But not until she heard he was going to be married, had she come right awake, and

and despair, it was some consolation

the sooner, had not this been a part of the grounds where she knew Mr Crathie tolerated no one without express leave given. The fisher folk in particular

loyer's importance when he was present, and of his own when he was absent, he was yet in the latter circumstances so doubtful of its adequate recognition by thos

as if nothing had happened, he became furious, and, in this possession of the devil, was at the present moment wandering about the grounds, brooding on the

use, hurried down the western side of the burn to fin

ye maun be ca

"But naebody says a kin' word to me noo," she said in excuse, "an' I

" exclaim

winna, my father daurna, an' the bairn

he cauld: come this gait," said Malc

that," returned Lizzy, and pres

seated her in a comfortable chair, and wrapped her in the plaid he had brought for the purpose. It was all he could do to keep from taking her

turb 's here, Lizzy: wh

ered in clouds, so that the little chamber, whose door and

tell," resumed Malcolm, finding she did not reply

y leddy Florimel's gauin' to be merried upo' Lord M

erried upon ony sic a bl

I canna bide it, though I hae no

t," he returned; "but gien ye kent a', ye wad ken I

gave a

ought of the elegant youth in the clutches of an angry fish

eplied, "but we maun see

sake, Ma'colm. Ye can hae n

her whom, as a scarce approachable goddess, he had loved before he knew her of his own blood, he would rather see married to an honest fisherman in the Seaton of Portlossie, than to such a lord as Meikleham. He had seen enough of him at Lossie House to know

'll ever merry my

t, Ma'colm?" returned

a'e no richt to preach to ye, Lizzy; but I maun jist tell ye this -- 'at gien God dinna help them 'at cry till 'im i' the warst o' tribles, they micht jist as weel ha'e nae God at a'. For my ain pairt I ha'e been helpit, an' I think it