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It was acknowledged that both the mother and the wife of the new laird had had good blood in their veins; but George Dawson himself, had been, and, in a sense, still was, a merchant in the High-street of Portie. He was banker and ship-owner as well, and valued the reputation w...
It was acknowledged that both the mother and the wife of the new laird had had good blood in their veins; but George Dawson himself, had been, and, in a sense, still was, a merc...
2. CHAPTER TWO.George Dawson had been very successful in life. He was not an old man when he took possession of his estate of Saughleas. He had many years before him in which to enjoy the frui...
3. CHAPTER THREE.The folk looking out of their windows in Portie might well wonder what could be bringing the young ladies of Saughleas into the town on such a dismal day. Though April was come...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Saughleas with the June sunshine felling on it was a very different place from Saughleas under the "drip, drip" of winter rain and sleet, with the wind moaning or roaring throug...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.Mr Dawson was just as usual the next morning. He was never so silent, nor in such haste to get through breakfast and away to the town when his sister was in the house, for he to...
6. CHAPTER SIX.The garden party at Petrie Villa had been the first of a series. Not a very long series, indeed, for there were not many gardens in Portie equal to the requirements of such an e...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.Miss Jean's heart misgave her, for she knew that the thought suggested to her brother on the morning when Mrs Eastwood and Captain Harefield came to Saughleas to inquire about p...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.The name of Willie Calderwood had never been spoken between the sisters since the day when, standing on the high rocks above the Tangle Stanes, they had watched the "John Seaton...
9. CHAPTER NINE.She was not always so successful; still she was successful to a degree that surprised herself, in withdrawing her father from the silent and sombre musings which of late had bec...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Mrs Calderwood's house faced the sea a little nearer the pier head than Miss Jean's, and Miss Dawson nodded and smiled to her aunt in the window as she passed, hardly confessing...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Mr Dawson was longer away than he had intended to be when he left. A visit was made to the Corbetts on the way, and from thence came a letter telling Jean to prepare to receive...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."Do ye ken what ye are doing, Jean? Ye're doing your best to mak' a sailor o' the lad; and ye'll do him an ill turn and get him into trouble if that happens. His father has othe...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.In the beginning of April May came home--"bonnier than ever," as Jean told her father, as she met him at the door. He laughed when he heard her say it, but he agreed with her, a...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.It would not have been easy for Jean to set about any very elaborate preparations for the reception of the expected guest, without attracting the notice of her sister, who was t...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.It would doubtless have been agreeable to Mr Dawson had Mr Manners been a richer man than he seemed to be, but he did not allow even to Miss Jean, that this want of money was a...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.A voice from within bade them enter, and there was time for no more. We shall not enter with them. The first tears of a childless widow suddenly bereaved, must not be looked upo...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.That night Mr Dawson and Miss Jean sat long together, when the others had gone away, and for the most part they sat in silence. Mr Dawson had some thoughts which he would not ha...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.Captain Harefield was at the wedding an honoured guest, as all could see, and for a very good reason, it was said. Through the Blackford groom, it had come to be known in Portie...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN.They had three years and more without a break of the happy life to which Jean had looked forward when her brother came home. The days seemed all alike in the quiet routine into...
20. CHAPTER TWENTY.That was but the beginning. Mr Dawson might have had a dull time for the next few days, since Mr Manners was more than usually engaged, and Mrs Manners was not permitted to come...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.Mr Dawson and Miss Jean were sitting on the terrace by the parlour window as they went in. Jean knew by many signs that her father and Marion had come to be very good friends, a...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.That night Mr Dawson came to invite them to pass a few days at Saughleas. He "wearied" there alone in the mornings and the long evenings, and there was no good reason why he sho...
23. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.It had been arranged that Mrs Manners and her children should return with George and Jean for a visit, but when the time came it was decided that it was too late in the season f...
24. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR."Weel! weel! If the marriage is wi' auld Mr Dawson's free consent, then the Ethiopian can change his skin, and that would be makin' the Bible out nae true. It's little ye ken! H...
25. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.And so the summer wore over, and May went home with all her children, though Jean would fain have kept one boy with her. But her mother feared the bleak east winds for the rathe...
26. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.The ship "Ben Nevis," Captain Calderwood, supposed to be lost, had been spoken at sea by a vessel homeward bound. Her latitude and longitude were given, and it was said that con...
27. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN."God bless ye, Willie, man. Welcome home." And for the moment he quite forgot the shock which the first sight of the young man had given him. It was only for a moment, however,...