My heart's in the Highlands

Rowena Arbuthnot leant her elbows on the wide windowsill and looked in upon her sister-in-law from the garden, with her mischievous blue-grey eyes which always seemed to twinkle...

"When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired— How gracious, how benign is solitude!" W...

"Yes," sighed the child; "but all the nice things happened long ago. People say now that the fairies have gone away; I'm always watching for them. I went to Inverness one day wi...

ROWENA was moved into her boat the next day. And the sun shone down upon her in real friendliness. Of course Shags accompanied her; and for a couple of hours Colin rowed her ove...

ROWENA did not see her friends for ten days, for a week of storm and rain set in, and she managed to catch a cold which settled on her chest, and forced her to remain indoors an...

AUGUST came, and gradually the neighbourhood began to grow lively with visitors and tourists. Once or twice Rowena had visits from the Frasers. And then one day Miss Falconer ca...

"I am glad to think that Miss Falconer has been such a success," she said; "and really people begin to think that she may one day change her role from governess to mother. Forgi...

MYSIE stayed with Rowena till the afternoon of the following day, and very unwillingly departed. She had hardly gone before another visitor was announced, and this was Mr. Crawf...

NOTHING would deter General Macdonald from placing Mysie at school. He came over to Rowena with a most cheerful face, and introduced his friend, a Colonel Cavanagh, to her. He w...

"All are not taken! There are left behind Living Beloved's tender looks to bring, And make the daylight still a happy thing, And tender voices to make soft the wind." E. Browning.

"Oh, I am glad for her sake, of course; but I have had four sheets from her showing me how impossible it is for mother to live alone, and imploring me to take the children and m...

IT was a strange life into which Rowena had slipped. Anyone else who held the same views that she did would have found it impossible. But Rowena had always a wonderful adaptabil...

"Well, she made a special point of your accompanying me. She lost her heart to you the other afternoon when she was here. Now I let you off a good many places, but not this one....

ON the following Sunday Rowena met Mysie and her father at the doors of the church which she attended. It was a quiet old-fashioned service, and the congregation was not a fashi...

"I held her hand, the pledge of bliss, Her hand that trembled and withdrew; She bent her head before my kiss, My heart was sure that hers was true." Landor.

"We cannot well forget the hand that holds And pierces us and will not let us go, However much we strive from under it. The heavy pressure of a constant pain ... Is it not God's...

"What an awful thing it is! Di and I have been quite upset over her; but we hate sickness in any shape or form, and always keep away from it. We hear the poor thing will never b...

"We in our wedded life shall know no loss, We shall new-date our years! What went before Will be the time of promise, shadow, dream, But this full revelation of great love! For...

"I have patiently gone round with you to leave cards when people are out. Then you have dragged me to dinners and lunches and teas, and I hoped now that we might be left in peac...

The children were all out on the loch with Donald. It was a very hot afternoon; Rowena was sewing, and Di was lazily reclining in a hammock under the old cedar tree. The car had...

Oh Winter ruler of the inverted year ... ... Thou hold'st the sun A prisoner in the yet undawning East, Short'ning his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him impatient...

You are endowed with Faculties which bear Annexed to them as 'twere a dispensation To summon meaner spirits to do their will And gather round them at their need; inspiring Such...