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Girlhood and Womanhood
The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
By SARAH TYTLER
AUTHOR OF "PAPERS FOR THOUGHTFUL GIRLS,"
"CITOYENNE JACQUELINE," ETC. ETC.
LONDON
Wm. ISBISTER, Limited
56, LUDGATE HILL
1883
CONTENTS.
Page
I.
CAIN'S BRAND,
1
ON THE MOOR,
1
THE ORDEAL,
16
"HE LAY DOWN TO SLEEP ON THE
MOORLAND SO DREARY,"
29
MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE,
37
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II.
ON THE STAGE AND OFF THE STAGE,
62
THE "BEAR" AT BATH,
62
LADY BETTY ON THE STAGE,
72
MISTRESS BETTY BECOMES NURSE,
77
MASTER ROWLAND GOES UP TO LONDON,
86
MISTRESS BETTY TRAVELS DOWN INTO
SOMERSETSHIRE,
90
BETWEEN MOSELY AND LARKS' HALL,
96
III. A CAST IN THE WAGGON,
108
DULCIE'S START IN THE WAGGON FOR HER
COMPANY,
108
TWO LADS SEEK A CAST IN THE WAGGON, 113
REDWATER HOSPITALITY,
122
OTHER CASTS FOLLOWING THE CAST IN
THE WAGGON,
134
DULCIE AND WILL, AT HOME IN ST.
MARTIN'S LANE,
151
SAM AND CLARISSA IN COMPANY IN
LEICESTER SQUARE,
158
STRIPS SOME OF THE THORNS FROM THE
HEDGE AND THE GARDEN ROSES,
161
IV. ADAM HOME'S REPENTANCE,
167
WILD, WITTY NELLY CARNEGIE,
167
A GALLANT REBUFFED.\u2014NELLY'S
PUNISHMENT,
172
A MOURNFUL MARRIAGE EVE,
177
NELLY CARNEGIE IN HER NEW HOME,
179
NELLY'S NEW PASTIMES,
185
THE LAIRD CONSCIENCE-SMITTEN,
186
BLESSING AND AFFLICTION.\ue000ADAM
HOME'S RETURN,
192
THE RECONCILIATION AND RETURN TO
STANEHOLME,
197
V. HECTOR GARRET OF OTTER,
202
THE FIRE,
202
THE OFFER,
211
THE NEW HOME,
228
THE PAGES OF THE PAST,
236
THE MOTHER AND CHILD,
248
THE STORM,
259
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VI. THE OLD YEOMANRY WEEKS,
268
THE YEOMEN'S ADVENT.\ue001PRIORTON
SPRUCES ITSELF UP,
268
A MATCH-MAKER'S SCHEME,
275
A MORNING MEETING AND AN EVENING'S
READING,
280
THE BALL, AND WHAT CAME OF IT,
293
VII. DIANA,
302
AN UNDERTAKING,
302
THE FULFILMENT,
311
HAZARD,
316
THE LAST THROW,
323
VIII. MISS WEST'S CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE, 337
CAIN'S BRAND
I.\u2014ON THE MOOR.

CAIN'S BRAND! that is no fact of the far past, no legend of the Middle Ages, for are there not Cains among us; white-faced, haggard-featured Cains to the last? Men who began with a little injury, and did not dream that their gripe would close in deadly persecution? Cains who slew the spirit, and through the spirit murdered the body? Cains unintentionally, whom all men free from the stain of blood, and to whom in the Jewish economy the gates of the Cities of Refuge would have stood wide open, yet who are never again light of thought and light of heart? On their heads the grey is soon sprinkled, and in the chamber of their hearts is drawn a ghastly picture, whose freshness fades, but whose distinct characters are never obliterated.

Of this class of men, of hot passions, with rash advisers, who meditated wrong, but not the last wrong, victims
of a narrow, imperious code of honour, only to-day expunged from military and social etiquette, was the Laird
of the [Page 2]Ewes. Many of us may have seen such another\ue003a tall, lithe figure, rather bent, and very
white-headed for his age, with a wistful eye; but otherwise a most composed, intelligent, courteous gentleman
of a laird's degree. Take any old friend aside, and he will tell, with respectful sympathy, that the quiet,
sensible, well-bred Laird, has suffered agonies in the course of his life, though too wise and modest a man to
hold up his heart for daws to peck at, and you will believe him. Look narrowly at the well-preserved,
well-veiled exterior, and you will be able to detect, through the nicely adjusted folds, or even when it is
brightened by smiles, how remorse has sharpened the flesh, and grief hollowed it, and long abiding regret
shaded it.

Twenty years before this time, Crawfurd of the Ewes, more accomplished than many of the lairds, his
contemporaries, and possessed of the sly humour on which Scotchmen pride themselves, had been induced to
write a set of lampoons against a political opponent of his special chief. He was young then, and probably had
his literary vanity; at least he executed his task to the satisfaction of his side of the question; and without
being particularly broad and offensive, or perhaps very fine in their edge, his caricatures excited shouts of
laughter in the parish, and in the neighbouring town.

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