Sir Gervase Grey - 1854 Author:Gordon 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: CHAPTER III. tHE LABY OF GASTLE-STENNIS. me something of Mrs. Monro's history, Alwyne. I am sure she has a history connected with her. How comes she to res... more »ide here ? I want to know more of her, for she greatly interests me." Thus spoke Herbert Greyf as Alwyne and he found themselves, with their fishing rods, on the banks of one of the many streams of the neighbourhood, in the afternoon of the following day. He had accompanied Alwyne to Auchmithie immediately after breakfast, ostensibly for a call of a few minutes duration, Oh their way to Glen Creran, the spot wherethey now were; and there they had spent the entire morning, sitting in the drawing room, and beneath the yew tree, or sauntering in the garden, and the picturesque paths cut through the glen ; had remained to luncheon, and finally had torn themselves away, because they could find no pretext for farther prolonging their visit. " There has been a great deal of sorrow in Mrs. Monro's history," replied Alwyne, in answer to the question of his companion. ' Her early years were spent in a stormy scene. Her father was an Irish gentleman of very ancient family, and was, I have always understood, deeply implicated in the rebellion of —93. I have heard her describe some fearful scenes of that period, as having occurred under her own eyes. He was forced to escape to Belgium to save his life, and there his wife and daughters joined him. His wife was a Scotchwoman, and thus, although he himself was a Koinan Catholic, the daughters werebrought up members of our Keformed Apostolic Church, to which she belonged. There was a son, but he died young. The family property was dilapidated, and finally sold, and Mr. O'Moore, the father, died shortly after his exile. There was a cousin, who had been adopted by him, and who accompan...« less