A Daughter of Heth A Novel Author:William Black Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Thomas," said the Minister, severely, " you are not competent to judge of these things." But Coquette looked at the lad, and saw that his face was burning; ... more »and she thanked him with her expressive eyes. Another such glance would have made the Whaup forswear his belief in the Gunpowder Plot; and as it was, he began to cherish wild notions about Roman Catholicism. That was the first result of Coquette's arrival at Airlie. (Ires CHAPTER III. A PENITENT. and hung its loaves and and when she opened one in, there was a i'ragr.ince When, on the Sunday morning, Coquette, having dressed, and come into her sitting-room, went forward to one of the small windows, she uttered a cry of delight. Shu had no idea that the surroundings of her new home were so beautiful. Outside the bright sunlight of the morning fell on the Minister's garden and orchard—a somewhat tangled mass, it is true, of flower bjds and apple trees, with patches of cabbage, pease, and other kitchen stall' filling up every corner. A white rose-tree nearly covered the wall of the Manse, blooms round the two windows of these to let the fresh air rush that filled the room in a second. But far beyond the precincts of the Manse stretched a great landscape, so spacious, so varied, so graduated in hue and tone that her eye ran over it with an ever-increasing delight and wonder. First, the sea. Just over the mountains of the distant island of Arran—a spectral blue mass lying along the horizon—there was a confusion of clouds that let the sunlight fall down on the plain of water in misty, slanting lines. The plain was dark, except where those rays smote it sharp and clear, glimmering in silver ; while a black steamer, a mere speck, slowly crept across the lines of blinding light. Down in the south there was a small ...« less