Weimar's trust Author:Edward Christian 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 IX. Proteus. But, good my lord, do it so cunningly That my discovery be not aimed at ; For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publishe... more »r of this pretence ! Dulce. Upon mine honour, he shall never know That I had any light from thee of this. Gentlemen of Verona. My apprehensions come in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass ; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as I pass. I question all, and do not find One that will answer to my mind. Wordsworth. Slowly, and with many a backward glancer she toiled homewards, till she reached, wearied in mind and body, the upward path to the Quinta. As she approached a turning which intersected this road, there emerged from a thicket of tropical plants the figure of a man, who beckoned to her, as if desirousto speak with her, looking warily round the while. Surprised, she stopped and waited, till he crept cautiously towards her. It was her father's Scotch man-servant, David Wylie. " Can I speak wi' ye, Miss Isameny, for a wee bit? Just step in here amang the bushes. They '11 shade ye brawly; an, ye '11 excuse me telling ye something that I dinna like the looks o'." Isamena stood in the shadow of the trees, and remained awaiting his communication in silence. " Ye '11 no' be angry wi' me, my bonnie young leddy, for the liberty I'm taking: but I 'm fearfu' there's some mischief brewing to ye, that ye little suspec'." "Mischief to me, Davie?" " Yes, my leddy. I 'm nae fule, tho' I say it mysel'; an' I hae an' ee in my head; as weel as just as lang lugs as my neebours. Noo, this is what I hae got to tell ye, an' ye '11 soon see what to make o't. Ye see, I happened to be up in my maister's dressing- room, a while ago, putting it to rights, an' up there came yon Mr...« less