served his agitation, and mistaking the cause, felt somewhat softened at what he conceived his son's shame and penitence for his folly: he therefore extended his hand towards him, saying, "Weel, weel, nae mair aboot it; Clachandow's yours, as soon as I can put you in possession in the meantime, stay still here, and welcome."

"I am much obliged to you for the offer, Sir; I feel very grateful for your kindness,' at length articulated his son; "but I am, as you observe, so perfectly ignorant of country matters, that I-I-in short, I am afraid I should make a bad hand of the business."

"Nae doot, nae doot ye would, if ye was left to your ain discretion; but ye'll get mair sense, and I shall put ye upon a method, and provide ye wi a grieve; an' if you are active, and your wife managing, there's nae fear o’ you.'

"But Lady Juliana, Sir, has never been accustomed ".

"Let her serve an apprenticeship to your aunts; she cou❜dna be in a better school."

"But her education, Sir, has been so different from what would be required in that station," resumed her husband, choking with vexation, at the idea of his beauteous high-born bride being doomed to the drudgery of household

cares.

"Edication! what has her edication been, to mak her different frae other women? If a woman can nurse her bairns, mak their claes, and manage her hoose, what mair need she [Grieve a bailiff. Scand. graef.]

do? If she can play a tune on the spinnet, and dance a reel, and play a rubber at whist

nae doot these are accomplishments, but they're soon learnt. Edication! pooh !-I'll be bound Leddy Jully Anie wull mak as gude a figure by-and-bye as the best edicated woman in the country.

“But she dislikes the country, and

"She'll soon come to like it. Wait a wee till she has a wheen bairns, an' a hoose o' her ain, an' I'll be bound she'll be happy as the day's lang."

"But the climate does not agree with her," continued the tender husband, almost driven to extremities by the persevering simplicity of his father.

"Stay a wee till she gets to Clachandow! there's no a finer, freer-aired situation in a' Scotland: the air's sharpish, to be sure, but fine and bracing; and you have a braw peat-moss at your back to keep you warm.'

Finding it in vain to attempt insinuating his objections to a pastoral life, poor Henry was at length reduced to the necessity of coming to the point with the old gentleman, and telling him plainly that it was not at all suited to his inclinations, or Lady Juliana's rank and beauty.

Vain would be the attempt to paint the fiery wrath and indignation of the ancient Highlander, as the naked truth stood revealed before him :that his son despised the occupation of his fathers, even the feeding of sheep, and the breeding of black cattle; and that his high-born spouse was above fulfilling those duties, which he had ever considered

the chief end for which woman was created. He swore, stamped, screamed, and even skipped with rage, and, in short, went through all the evolutions, as usually performed by testy old gentlemen, on first discovering that they have disobedient sons and undutiful daughters. Henry, who, though uncommonly good-tempered, inherited a portion of his father's warmth, became at length irritated at the invectives that were so liberally bestowed on him, and replied in language less respectful than the old Laird was accustomed to hear; and the altercation became so violent, that they parted in mutual anger; Henry returning to his wife's apartment in a state of the greatest disquietude he had ever known. To her childish questions and tiresome complaints, he no longer vouchsafed to reply, but paced the chamber with a disordered mien, in sullen silence; till at length, distracted by her reproaches, and disgusted with her selfishness, he rushed from the apartment, and quitted the

house.

CHAPTER XIII

"Never talk to me; I will weep."

TWICE

As You Like It.

"WICE had the dinner-bell been loudly sounded by old Donald, and the family of Glenfern were all assembled, yet their fashionable guests had not appeared. Impatient of delay, Miss Jacky hastened to ascertain the cause. Presently she returned in the utmost perturbation, and announced, that Lady Juliana was in bed in a high fever, and Henry nowhere to be found. The whole eight rushed upstairs to ascertain the fact, leaving the old gentleman much discomposed at this unseasonable delay.

Some time elapsed ere they again returned, which they did with lengthened faces, and in extreme perturbation. They had found their noble niece, according to Miss Jacky's report, in bed-according to Miss Grizzy's opinion, in a brain fever; as she no sooner perceived them enter, than she covered her head with the bed-clothes, and continued screaming for them to be gone, till they had actually quitted the apartment.

"And what proves beyond a doubt, that our sweet niece is not herself," continued poor Miss Grizzy, in a lamentable tone, "is, that we appeared to her in every form but our own! She sometimes took us for cats; then thought we were ghosts haunting her; and, in short, it is impossible to tell

all the things she called us; and she screams so for Harry to come and take her away, that I am sure -I declare-I don't know what's come over her!"

Mrs. Douglas could scarce suppress a smile at the simplicity of the good spinsters. Her husband and she had gone out, immediately after breakfast, to pay a visit a few miles off, and did not return till near the dinner-hour. They were therefore 'ignorant of all that had been acted during their absence; but, as she suspected something was amiss, she requested the rest of the company would proceed to dinner, and leave her to ascertain the nature of Lady Juliana's disorder.

"Don't come near me !" shrieked her Ladyship, on hearing the door open: "send Harry to take me away I don't want anybody but Harry! and a torrent of tears, sobs, and exclamations followed.

"My dear Lady Juliana," said Mrs. Douglas, softly approaching the bed, "compose yourself; and if my presence is disagreeable to you, I shall immediately withdraw."

"Oh, is it you?" cried her sister-in-law, uncovering her face at the sound of her voice: “I thought it had been these frightful old women come to torment me; and I shall die-I know I shall if ever I look at them again. But I don't dislike you; so you may stay if you choose, though I don't want anybody but Harry, to come and take me away."

A fresh fit of sobbing here impeded her utterance; and Mrs. Douglas, compassionating her distress, while she despised her folly, seated herself by the bedside, and taking her hand, in the sweetest