ABSTRACT
The Rector of Belfont had willingly permitted the little Zerbellini to be place under his wife’s care. The distance from thence to the castle was short; and Calantha had already sent her children there for the benefit of sea-bathing. On returning one day thence,a she called upon Gerald Mac Allain, who had absented himself from the castle, ever since Mr. Buchanan had appeared there. She found him mournfully employed in looking over some papers and drawings, which he had removed to his own habitation. Upon seeing Lady Avondale he arose, and pointingb to the drawings, which she recognized: ‘Poor Alice,’ he said, ‘these little remembrances tell me of happier days, and make me sad; but when I see you, my Lady, I forget my sorrows.’ / Linden’s cottage was at a very littlec distance from Gerald Mac Allain’s. Calantha now informed him that she had met young Linden at the fair, and had wished to speak to him;d but that she did not immediately remember him, he was so altered. Gerald said ‘it was no use for her to speak to him, or for any one else, he was so desperate-like;e and,’ added he, ‘Alice’s misconduct has broke all our hearts: we never meet now as formerly; we scarce dare look at each other as we pass.’
