Rugs and pillows were laid on the
deck, between camp chairs and stools, and, while the bearded lawyer lay
propped on the former, with the most beautiful woman on board kneeling
beside him, the rest of the company occupied the higher seats. The
ladies worked away at airy nothings, and the gentlemen, Squire included,
smoked cigars and pipes, all talking of the stirring events of the past,
and forecasting the pleasures of the near future. Somehow they all
seemed to miss little Marjorie, and wondered what sort of time she and
the rest of them were having at Bridesdale.
Three months soon passed away. Mrs. Coristine's fortune was secured, and
transformed into Canadian securities by her legal husband, half being
made over to Mrs. Errol. The minister took his bride to Perth, and
introduced her to his friends, who received her as graciously as the
Edinburgh people did Mr. Douglas' queenly wife from Canada. On Princess
Street many a pedestrian stopped to look at the well-matched pair. Mr.
Carruthers looked up his Scotch relations, and then crossed the Irish
Sea to inspect the "owld shod," under Mr.
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