“What can she mean?” said Euphra to herself.
But she would never have found out.
CHAPTER XIV. DAVID ELGINBROD.
He being dead yet speaketh.
HEB., xi. 4.
In all ‘he’ did
Some figure of the golden times was hid.
DR. DONNE.
From this time, Margaret waited upon Euphra, as if she had been her own maid. Nor had Mrs. Elton any cause of complaint, for Margaret was always at hand when she was wanted. Indeed, her mistress was full of her praises. Euphra said little.
Many and long were the conversations between the two girls, when all but themselves were asleep. Sometimes Harry made one of the company; but they could always send him away when they wished to be alone. And now the teaching for which Euphra had longed, sprang in a fountain at her own door. It had been nigh her long, and she had not known it, for its hour had not come. Now she drank as only the thirsty drink,—as they drink whose very souls are fainting within them for drought.