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But David had marked out his course, and he was not the man to permit any

woman to seriously interfere with his plans He put doith a rief and disappointment, and shame, and went off to the Hebrides

with his pupil But in spite of hiie ith him He was

coet rid of

anxiety, and of planning for the future, which the change in his ie's fault "Her weakness,

her craving 'to be made of,' and to be happy, her inability to bear a

little fe after the coie, after all, spoiled the trip to which he had looked

forward for half a year with longing and delight

When he returned to the Candleriggs, the first thing he saas a letter

fro upon his table for soie had written it soon after her removal to Drumloch, but she did not

wish to post it from so small a place, and she therefore waited until her

first visit to Glasgohich occurred early in August She had reo to Pittenloch, and she

feared that he would be very miserable when he found out that she had

never returned to Kinkell Without revealing her own location or

circumstances, she wished to satisfy him as far as possible of her