Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-11
ROY OF AIRLIE.
l:Y AMELIA + EAER.

heathen books. am busy enough wi
| the havcr bread-baking, but You re aye
welcome in hall or kitchen, to Janet.
uaver bread baking is one OF the hard
est duties OF the Cumberland housewife.
and Janet lifted Il flushed iace. and
strai aightcned herself with IN air OF re
| lief, to give the laird his welcome. He
was Il handsome Young fellow, not 4
year home from college. and his own
master He still wore mourning for the
old laird. but it became him well. Is did
also his merry way OF throwing OH hi,
air ot still delightful studies.
'Don't abn,c my heathen books. ..lAurt.
wonderful men wrote them, and they are
tull of grand thoughts"
| Then. what for d,dma they write. thrm
in decent English? I'm aye d"uhtimi a
books i'll thac dead languages: wh,n
only one tongue has put oil flesh alii
blood it is too ghaiSt-iikr t" mrddI" vi,
unless maylrap i"r tia" iIarh Art. '1nd
Janet looked hali-ioublngiy at her
young master.
90. INV books are al! right, J,n"t
| The minister borrowed ~"Iue al them
! Yesterday.
II dinuu ken. elr; whatna tor Lo vr
|
| Didna | see him and yru br@in Al the
end o'ane uthem an read ii backward
That Was Hebrew, .lanrt.
"O"' but the 80" was I very suspect
| ouS ejaculation, and Janet thumprh her
cake with great emphasis I" very pc
ruliar shake ot her head.
Young Roy laughed and continued! hs-
lesurely walk through the whtr-ilag%"d
| house place. 1t was 4 charming apart
mcnt, though only a ilagged one. ami
especially so on this spring morning.
when the latticed windows were all
dung open. and the scent OF the apple
blossoms and the datfiodilS came in great
waves OF perfume whenever the wind
caught Them. The sweet. savury smell
of the fine oat-meal deicacy. and sight
of the motherly Janet in her SpotleSs
cap and apron, the snowy, plpc-cIayed
floor. the simmer of pewter and tins.
and brasses. ranged upon the deal shelves
of the dresser, all made an ldNllIc pc
ture. which not even Iheocrltus could
match, and Roy felt ii.
Janet. you are half right your kitch-
en-. and your occupation, and yor
Yourself are "A better piece OF poetry
than any have read this morning
There's naught but what is sensible
and word-likc about Janet, Master Roy
an nacbody ever spoke o po'try an mt
in the same breath before; ye maun tail
yolIr nonsense to siller folk thon Janc
Armstrong, laird
There is lovely Alice Elderslle-l
She not Il poem, Janet =
Deed shes Il vera guild bonnie .a>>lc
an far too much respccktlt to be maxim!
po try about. Naebody should say augh
TO Alice Elderslie but the honest truth.
Roy walked thoughtfullY up and down
and Janet furtively watched hlm a h
went between her table and the hcatc'
marble slab where her cakes We're bak
ing"
You are very tond of Alice. Janet.
"Ehere's reason for 4 things, NaStc
Roy. an hae guid ones. mair than ;lne
for loving the house of Alderslle. roc
an branch"
When was at college, Alice cam
every day here-Adam says so.
Adam Strong has mair tongue tha
guid sense; but he >pakc the truth tn;
time"
why does she not come every da
now ?
"Guid reasons. Master Roy Your ta'
ther--tiUd rest him, An You are total!
different parsons. 1t would i!i->oI
Miss Eldcrslc to be coming every da
to Airlic. an You sitting You: taIther
chair. Dear me dear me- thnk | =,
the old laird tnddng about under III
apple blossom. an Miss Alice waIL>ln
by his side" And ,Iauct stopped an
looked thoughttul!y through the iattlr
'Janet, | am going over TO Mr.. l.
dersle's. want to ask his "pnlg
about something"
.Ye meedna ask squire E!d"f~i!"
opinion about anytn" but ~tAh'> a
roots an sic havcrS II its about gov
or land or business, you ganI to l.awl'
Rell. Master RoV-hc come ui 4 WI
generation, an hell lead yOH nae t"oli,
gates"
Roy laughed and disappeared. and j
net went on with her WORK ,muit"rinG ;
she clappeI the waicr-lih" cakes:
Much . the squire 3nplnion he wan
ed he sens weel he. ava /" the hi
this fine day within bag An his hhnm
its Miss Alice, OF course. | WISH 81
had Il bit tochcr Airlie is worn ont. Ii:
crops an no Il third o the wool we u-'
TO shear. Alice has naughL ava but II
peat lands an her snIt house iafi
beauty and hearth htvna ony cash walt
now-t-tlayS-nrycr had ~ Tar As | kt
Alice and Alrlie would Just be naethiI
added to naething.
In the meantime Roy had found Ali
under the Elderslic applc-blossoms, a
asked her opinion about great MAJ
questions. lie found these kind of &c
Is, sultations so charming that he continu
them daily all through the sweet. spri:
afternoons, and the warm, balmy SUI
mer evenings lie really hardly cOnsi
cred the responsibility and danger
these pleasant meetings and rambling
Alice's sweet, rose-like beauty her gull
less innocence and frank delight III
company, had led him to respond IN
manner that rather startled him VIII
Janet took him plainly to task about
You'll hac spoke to the squire
Miss Alice. suppose, Master Roy" S
said. bluntly, one morning.
: why. what do you mean, Janet:
81 thought Il gentleman aye asked
faythcr before the daughter it's an III
fashion, but u guild one"
What made you think ! had ask
either a.
..BecauSe dIShOnor ana your faNthc
blood are no kin to each ither.
Janet. do you know what you ;
saying?r
..Fincly, Master Roy; an ken WI
the countryside is saying too; an ii
squire is sac wrapped upi' his iooli
ness rs to see naught an hear naugh
ken well nae honorable gentleman y
take any advantage o that.
..Janet. do you think it will be a SC
thing for me to marry Alice Eldersli,
Il danna say it will be a guild thin!
counting silver like, but | say it will
right thing
The right thing ought to be
same as the good thing.
That is rs ye read it, If We h;
passed 4 promise. Airlic, be lord o Y
word an keep it.
Roy Airlic went out very though
man. He had not, indeed, in SO IN;
words. asked Alice to be his wife bu
MANY other ways OF sweet persuasion
had asked her that question. He loved
too, and he believed she loved him
what OF that? Was marriage the o
honorable close to such sweet, sum,
pastime? To marry Alice was onl,
add one poor, impoverished estate
another; and he had just begun to +
ize that poverty was very uncomio
bic drawback to proprictorship. an,
,,ston tn tho prOpDSalS of Jn,yy.r