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KIRKWOODBRAE. 'You are a dear and good-hearted jewel, Mary!' said Ellinor. 'How you can constantly face and soothe the sorrows and miseries of all these poor people, I cannot conceive…
MARY'S ADVENTURE. On the following day, after seeing old Elspat duly installed in one of the cosiest rooms of the old portion of the mansion as a kind of housekeeper, Mary Wellwood put on her g…
THE INTRODUCTION. A day or two after the rencontre we have narrated, when the sisters were quietly reading in their little drawing-room, the curtained windows of which opened to the lovely glen, thr…
ROBERT WODROW. Leaving Ellinor and Sir Redmond occupied with the contents of the portfolio, Mary, accompanied by the other two visitors, issued into the garden, where all the flowers of summer were …
THE DUNKELD FAMILY. 'Ah, London is the true place for life! One exists only in the country, but in London we live!' exclaimed Lady Dunkeld. 'You are right, my Lady Dunkeld!' exc…
THE VISIT. Putting some constraint upon themselves, we are sorry to say, Lady Dunkeld and her daughter on the following afternoon drove over to Birkwoodbrae, and sent in their cards to Mary and Elli…
DREAMS AND DOUBTS. The sun of a soft and balmy summer afternoon was, as the song has it, 'Glinting bright On Invermay's sweet glen and stream,' on…
A TRUCE. Robert Wodrow, full of thought, pursuing his way through a green hedge-bordered lane that led to Birkwoodbrae from the manse, suddenly heard the shrill yelp of a dog, followed by an execrat…
COLVILLE'S WARNING. Despite the disparaging remarks or comments so ungenerously made by Lady Dunkeld and her daughter, a subsequent afternoon saw both Sir Redmond Sleath and Leslie Colville sea…
THE GARDEN-PARTY AT CRAIGMHOR. It was the afternoon of a hot day early in August, when the sunlight bathed in glory all the scenery—green mountain and rocky glen, wood and water—about Craigmhor, giv…
