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equal to that of any son in the family; and he was so very agreeable, every body was pleased with him: the little boys and girls were delighted by his attentions to their small wants; the young lasses only thought that if the Prince had been fairly seated on the throne of his forefathers, and Holy Rood House again should echo with the noise and bustle of the saddled, neighing war-horse, the chariot, the Holy Mass in Mary's chapel, the trampling of the courtiers' steeds, the murmur of the vassals' voices, the songs and the pibroch of the kelted bands on Arthur's seat; if this had been esta blished and fixed, Monsieur Villejuive, who was so pleasant and agreeable, might have spent many a happy night with the bewitching company of Holy Rood House, and the beauteous ladies of Edina's court.

It was impossible not to be pleased

with Monsieur Villejuive: the schoolmaster wished the people would copy his conduct; and the minister thought that Monsieur Villejuive was wholly free from the heresies of the religion of his Prince; and he was greatly delighted so see weekly at the kirk, a man who had been baptized by a priest, and who had crossed himself from the time that he was three years of age till he had outlived forty-two.

CHAPTER II.

He was not there, nor seen along the shore :—
Ere night, alarmed, their isle is traversed o'er;
Another morn, another bids them seek,
And shout his name till echo waxeth weak;
Mount, grotto, cavern, valley, searched in vain.
CORSAIR.

THERE was nobody more sorrowful at the fate of Colin St. Clyde than Monsieur Villejuive: he condoled with the laird; he soothed the sorrow of Mrs. St. Clyde; he tried, by every agreeable and sprightly turn of speech and action, to dispel the gloom that hung over the minds of Norah and Ellen. He was so active in procuring information that might be depended on respecting Colin's fate, that, not content with letters which had been

received from the major of the regi ment, he resolved to go to Edinburgh, where there was a general officer that had returned, and from whom some information was expected that might throw light on the fate of young St. Clyde. With this intention he left Bute, intending to go by Dumbarton castle, to get letters of introduction to the person whom he wanted to see at Edinburgh; and from Dumbarton he proposed to visit Mr. Levingstone's, and stay there a week; thence he would go to Edinburgh.

He had not been gone from the island but six days, when he received the following letter on his arrival at Mr. Levingstone's:

"Dear Sir,

"I must dispense with the ceremony of an epistolary introduction in addressing you, and open

my business without reserve. Your brother-in-law has been missing these three days; and though we have made every enquiry, we have not been able to receive any tidings of him. Your sister-in-law is not a superstitious woman; but she and her daughter dreamt in one night the same dream before he was missing, that he stood by their bed-side as if drenched in water, his eyes closed, and his mouth open, and his fine toupee head of hair hung all wet over his head and temples; and that in an instant his countenance began to irradiate, and his eyes opened, his mouth closed, and his face and mien assumed an appearance more than human, till he vanished as if by the ceiling of the room from their view.

"This dream your sister-in-law related to him the next morning at breakfast, in the hearing of your niece: he smiled at it, and said, "there was nothing in

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