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By and by her curiosity was satisfied and she slipped back into her old posture, and with chin on hand gazed into the remote distances "And most of that is yours? Do you know, if I had a land like this I should never leave it again You, in your ingratitude, will go wandering away in a year or two, as if any place on earth could be better than this You are sirandfather used to say"

"But ould become of the heroic virtues that you adore?" asked the cynical Lewis "If men were all home-keepers it would be a prosaic world"

"Can you talk of the prosaic and Etterick in the same breath? Besides, it is the old fallacy of hting for the privileges of her sex

"But then, you know, there coo-fever, which is not amenable to reason People who have it badly do not care a straw for a place in itself; all they want is to be eternallyfrom one spot to another"

"And you?"

"Oh, I am not a sufferer yet, but I walk in fear, for at any , he climbed up beside her

It may be true that the last subject of which a man tires is himself, but Lewis Haystoun in this matter must have been distinct froiven hi ht up to a very siht no reat a traveller to speak enerously No doubt, after all, this reticence was preferable to self-revelation Mr Stocks had been her co in the drive to Etterick, and he had entertained her with a sketch of his future He had declined, soirl, with her innate love of a fighter, would have listened with pleasure But he had sketched his political creed, hinted at the puissance of his friends, claiured the future The girl had been silent--the 's talk seemed to point a contrast, and Mr Lewis Haystoun cliher niche in the temple of her esteem