Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXI. "THE THORNY PATH LEADS HOME." Einswith's engagement gave boundless satisfaction, and no congratulations were more sincere and loving than Margrdel's. "If I had only guessed for what you were martyring yourself," she said compunctorily. "I had not the smallest suspicion. Everybody seems to have been bent on matching Sholto and me; but the time is gone by for coupling two unwilling parties." It was a very changed Margredel who went in and out among her friends. Her beauty and stately grace were more noticeable than ever, but she had gained sweetness and warmth. If John Hilyard had loved her in the days of her girlish arrogance, he could not but love her a thousand times more when all that was gracious and womanly in her character was on the surface. T Einswith's own love made her very quick to see that of others, and she did not need to be told that the Rector would not have to wait long for his heart's desire. She wondered a little, with girlish impatience to see others as happy as herself, why he postponed the question which she could see trembling many a time upon his lip. Afterwards she came to know that he waited for the laird's sake, with an unselfish resolve not to cloud his return to Glenasheen with any shadow of future parting. Margrdel understood, and there were few things she was more proud of remembering in after days than her lover's capacity to put by love's sweetness for the sake of its greatness. She knew that the strength of a man is to be gauged not by the feelings which conquer him but by those he can conquer. It is certain that the laird would bitterly have resented any suggestion of taking Margredel from him at this time, and the girl, recognizing the fact, gave him unstinted affection and service, as though, like a repenta...
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