Gordon of Duncairn - 1858 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. Then come, my sister! come, I pray, With speed put on your woodland dress; And bring no book: for this one day We'll give to idleness. Wor... more »dsworth. "An, there comes the post!" exclaimed Lilias, as, regardless of conventionalities, she darted from the breakfast-table, and ran across the lawn to intercept the gillie, who was making his way up to the house from the village, with the letter-bag across his shoulders. " Here, mama!" she exclaimed, running into the room again with the contents in her hand, " here are two for you, and this one in Archie's handwriting for me." Then, after a pause, "Oh, mama, how charming! he comes home this very afternoon to stay some weeks, and wishes us to meet him in the boat at Tarbet, as he is coming from Greenock by the steamer." " Gently, my sweet one!" cried Mrs. Graeme, looking up from her own letters, " you pour out your news so rapidly, that you leave me no time to read my own." " Now, mama dear, do not pretend that you are interested in those letters, which I dare say are nothing but tradesmen's circulars, when you know your dear old heart is bounding with pleasure at the intelligence I am giving. Let me feel," she continued, playfully putting her hand on her mother's side, and then throwing both arms round her neck, "Oh, mammy mine ! it is of no use in the world to pretend calmness, so lay by those stupid papers, and listen to my plan;" and the impetuous girl took the letters out of her mother's passive hands, while running eagerly on: " the steamer, you know, will be at Tarbet about two or three o'clock: we shall have a beautiful sail down; there is a charming breeze, which will waft us there in an hour, and I see old Sandie at this moment in the boat, as if the old man had the gift of second sight this morning,...« less