having no suspicion, he did not take a second look at her,--but one look
is sufficient, and he swears it was bonny Lucy Forester."

16. Aunt Isabel, by this time, had bread and cheese and a bottle of her
own elder-flower wine on the table. "You have been a long and hard
journey, wherever you have been, Mr. Mayne; take some refreshment;" and
Michael asked a blessing.

17. Jacob saw that he might now venture to reveal the whole truth. "No,
no, Mrs. Irving, I am over happy to eat or to drink. You are all prepared
for the blessing that awaits you. Your child is not far off; and I myself,
for it is I myself that found her, will bring her by the hand, and restore
her to her parents."

18. Agnes had raised herself up in her bed at these words, but she sank
gently back on her pillow; aunt Isabel was rooted to her chair; and
Michael, as he rose up, felt as if the ground were sinking under his feet.
There was a dead silence all around the house for a short space, and then
the sound of many voices, which again by degrees subsided. The eyes of all
then looked, and yet feared to look, toward the door.

19. Jacob Mayne was not so good as his word, for he did not
bring Lucy by the hand to restore her to her parents; but dressed
again in her own bonnet and gown, and her own plaid, in rushed
their own child, by herself, with tears and sobs of joy, and her
father laid her within her mother's bosom.


DEFINITIONS.--1. Brae, shelving ground, a declivity or slope of a hill.
Pas'times, sports, plays, 4. Ri'ot-ing, romping. 5. Heath'er, an evergreen