human
This is my cousin Hugh come home again.
gpt
Oh, ay! he's come home again. I kenned him when he was a guileless laddie, like yourself, Archie, man, said Nancy, not sparing her little prick to the sore heart.
human
And where's your sister to-day? Is your aunt so ill yet as to need to keep her from the kirk? she added, with the air of finding a grievance in Lilias's absence.
gpt
Or is the lassie not well herself? She looked weary and worn enough when I bade her good-night at the stepping-stones in the gloaming. You're not come home over soon, Maister Hugh. It's time your mother had some one to care for her besides these bairns.
human
You are right, Mrs Stirling. You have been a kind friend to my mother and my cousin Lilias, they tell me, and I thank you from my heart.
gpt
It would have been liker Hugh Blair to turn on his heel and go his own way, said she afterwards;
human
And all the folk were so glad to see him! said Archie when he came home. Hugh was lingering outside, speaking to a friend who had walked with them over the hills, and Archie spoke fast and earnestly to have all told before he came in.
gpt
And they all minded on you, aunt, and said how thankful you would be, and how the Lord was good to you in your old age. And James Muir said he hoped he was never to go away again; and Allan Grant said that English Smith was to give up Glen Elder, and why should it not go back into the old hands again? They all said he would surely stay in the countryside now.
human
And what said my son to that?
gpt
Oh, he said little. I think it was because his heart was so full. And, Lily, he put five golden sovereigns into the poor's box! Steenie Muir told me that he saw his grandfather count it, and he heard him say that now surely the Lord was to bring back the good days to Glen Elder; and he thanked God for your sake, aunt. And, Lily, who kens but you may be `the wee white Lily of Glen Elder' again?
human
A `wee white Lily,' indeed, said her aunt fondly and gravely; but Lilias laughed, first at the thought of the golden sovereigns and Nancy's
gpt
destined still to be hidden away in the china teapot, and then a little at being called the
human
Lily of Glen Elder.
gpt
It's like a story in a book, aunt. It would be too much happiness to have the old days come back again--the happy days at Glen Elder;
human
They can never--never quite come back again.
gpt
Bonny Glen Elder! repeated Archie to himself many times, as, holding his cousin's hand, he walked over the fair sloping fields and through the sunny gardens. His cousin repeated it, too, sometimes aloud, sometimes sighing the words in regretful silence, remembering all that had come and gone since the happy days when he, a
human
Should the rest of his work be done in India or in Glen Elder?