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1. Flowcharts and pseudocode can be used to describe an algorithm

A. True
B. False

2. A C++ while loop tests the controlling condition at least once.

A. True
B. False

3. A C++ do while loop tests the controlling condition at least once.

A. True
B. False

4. Show the program trace of the following program using the input stream 5 2 -1 10
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ int A, B, N;
A = 3;
B = 6;
cout << "Enter a sequence of values " ;
do
{ cin >> N;
A = A + N + B;

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B ++;
} while (N < 10);
B *= 2;
cout << "(N,A,B) = " << "(" << N << ", " << A << ", " << B << ")" <<endl;
return 0;
}

5. Show the output for the following program:

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ int I, J;
for (I=1; I<4; ++I)
{ for (J=4; J>1; --J)
{ cout << J << ", " << I;
cout << endl;
}
}
return 0;
}

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6. Show the output of the following program using the input data: 8 -3 20
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ int N, R, S;
cout << "Enter a list of integers terminated by 20.";
S=1;
R=0;
do
{
cin >> N;
R++;
S = S + N;
} while (N < 20);
cout << "S = " << S << “ R = “ << R;
return 0;
}
7. Write a short C++ program to read positive integers, until the value -1 is read and print the
sum of the values.
8. Which control statement is best used when you know how many times to repeat the execution
of a group of statements?
A. the do-while statement
B. the for statement
C. the switch statement
D. the while statement
9. The control statement which is best used when you need to select from among many integer
choices is the . . .
A. for statement
B. while statement
C. do/while statement
D. switch statement
10. The control statement which is best used when you want to repeat a group of statements based
on a condition and the statements in the loop body must be executed at least once is the . . .
A. the for statement
B. the while statement
C. the do/while statement
D. the switch statement
11. When more than one statement appears in a loop body . . .
A. the loop body must be enclosed in parentheses, ( )
B. the loop body must be enclosed in curly braces, { }
C. the compiler requires that the statements in the loop body be indented.
D. there is nothing required to specify that there is more than one statement to the compiler

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Use the following program to answer the next two questions

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{ int I, J;
for (I=2; I>=0; --I)
{ for (J=1; J<4; ++J)
cout << J << ", " << I << ", ";
cout << endl;
}
return 0;
}
12. How many times is the statement cout << J << ", " << I << ", "; executed?
A. 0
B. 2
C. 3
D. 6
E. None of the above are correct.
13. How many times is the statement cout << endl: executed?
A. 0
B. 2
C. 3
D. 6
E. None of the above answers are correct.

14. The break statement is used to terminate the execution of a switch statement
A. True
B. False
15. A do-while loop repeats the loop body zero or more times.
A. True
B. False
16. One reason for an infinite loop in a while loop is that the loop body has no statement which
changes the value of a variable in the conditional boolean expression part of the while loop.
A. True
B. False
17. The while statement will execute the loop body if the condition evaluates to false or zero.
A. True
B. False

18. The continue statement causes the program to skip the rest of the loop body and to determine
if the loop body is to be executed again.
A. True
B. False

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19. A while loop repeats the loop body zero or more times.
A. True
B. False
20. A for loop repeats the loop body zero or more times.
A. True
B. False
21. When multiple initialization and/or modification statements are required in a for statement,
which operator is used to separate the statements:
A. The comma
B. The semicolon
C. The colon
D. None of these – it is not possible to have more than one initialization statement.

22. The comma operator has the lowest precedence of any C++ operator.
A. True
B. False
23. Sentinel-controlled input loops require a priori knowledge of how many data are in the file.
A. True
B. False

24. Counter-controlled input loops require a priori knowledge of how many data are in the file.
A. True
B. False
25. eof-controlled input loops require a priori knowledge of how many data are in the file.
A. True
B. False

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first to Lady Ingram and then to Celia. The first tray contained cups of
coffee, the second preserved fruits, the third custards, the fourth various
kinds of sweetmeats. Celia mentally wondered whether the French
supped on sugar-plums; but the fifth tray containing cakes, she
succeeded in finding something edible. Lady Ingram, she noticed, after a
cup of coffee and one or two cakes, devoted her attention to the sugar-
plums.

"You are tired?" asked Lady Ingram, turning to Celia. "Very well, you
shall go to bed. I will leave the forming of your manners at present; by
and by I shall have something to say to you. Thérèse will dress your hair
in the morning. Adieu! come and embrace me."

Thérèse appeared at the door, and after giving her some directions in
French, her mistress desired Celia to courtesy to the Consul and follow
Thérèse. The maid led Celia into a tolerably large room, with a French
bed, which Thérèse informed her that she would have to herself.

"Ah! dat you have de hair beautifuls!" said Thérèse, as she combed it
out. "I arrange it to-morrow. Mademoiselle like Madame?"

Celia liked no part of this speech. She knew that her hair was not
beautiful, and felt that Thérèse was flattering her; while whatever might
be her feelings on the subject of Lady Ingram, she had no intention of
communicating them to her Ladyship's maid. Her answer was distant and
evasive.

"Aha!" said Thérèse, with a soft laugh to herself. "Perhaps

Mademoiselle shall like Monsieur Philippe. Monsieur Philippe love to
hear of Mademoiselle."

Celia's heart warmed in a moment to her unknown brother. "How old

is he?" she asked.

"Nineteen," said Thérèse.

"And my eldest brother, how old is he?"

"Sir Edward?" asked the French maid. "Ah! I see him very little. He is
two, tree, five year older as Monsieur Philippe. He come never."
 Celia resolved to question Thérèse no further, and the latter continued
brushing her hair in silence.

"That will do, Thérèse," she said, when this process was completed. "I
will not keep you any longer," she explained, seeing that the French girl
looked puzzled.

"Mademoiselle undress herself?" asked Thérèse, with open eyes.

"Yes, thank you—I like it better. I wish to read a little first."

"De great ladies read never," laughed Thérèse. "Mademoiselle leave

de book in Englands. Madame not like de read."

"I will never leave you in England," whispered Celia to her little
Bible, resting her cheek upon it, when Thérèse was gone. "But oh! how
shall I follow your teaching here? I know so little, and have so little
strength!"

And a low soft whisper came into her heart,—"Lo! I am with you
alway, even unto the end of the world."[5]

"When Mademoiselle is ready, Madame wish speak with her at her

dressing-chamber."

This message was brought to Celia by Thérèse the next morning. She
was already dressed and reading.

"Ah! dat Mademoiselle is early!" exclaimed Thérèse, lifting her

eyebrows. "Mademoiselle read always."

There was a concealed sarcasm about everything this woman said to

her, which was particularly distasteful to Celia. She rose and closed her
book, only replying, "I will come to my Lady now."

Thérèse led her along the passage into a handsomely-furnished room,

where, robed in a blue cashmere dressing-gown, Lady Ingram sat, with
her long dark hair down upon her shoulders.
 "Ah! good morning. Early!" was her short greeting to Celia, who bent
down and kissed her.

"Now, my dear," pursued Lady Ingram, "please to sit down on that

chair facing me. I have two or three remarks to make. You shall have
your first lesson in the polishing you need so much."

Celia took the seat indicated with some trepidation, but more
curiosity.

"Very well," said her step-mother. "Now, first, about blushing. You
must get rid of that habit of blushing. There—you are at it now. Look in
the mirror, and see if it does not spoil your complexion. A woman of the
world, Celia, never blushes. It is quite old-fashioned and obsolete. So
much for that."

"But, Madam,"—Celia began, and hesitated.

"Go on, my dear," said Lady Ingram. "You are not putting enough
powder on the left side, Thérèse."

"If you please, Madam, I cannot stop blushing," pleaded Celia, doing
it very much. "It depends upon my feelings."

"Well, it looks as if you could not," answered Lady Ingram, with a

short, hard laugh. "But, my dear, you must. And as to feelings, Celia, a
modish woman never has any feelings. Feeling is the one thing
absolutely forbidden by the mode. Laugh as much as you please, but
mind how you feel merry; and as to crying, that is not allowable except
in particular circumstances. It looks well to see a girl weep for the death
of her father or mother, and, within reasonable limits, for a brother or
sister. But if you are ever left a widow, you must be very careful not to
weep for the loss of your husband: that would stamp you instantly. And it
is not bien séant for a mother to cry much over her children—certainly
not unless they are quite babies. A few tears—just a few—may be very
well in that case, if you have a laced handkerchief at hand. But you must
never look astonished, no matter what happens to you. And, Celia, last
night, when the Consul spoke to you, you absolutely looked perplexed."

"I felt so, Madam," said Celia.

 "Is not that just what I am telling you?" replied Lady Ingram, with
that graceful wave of her hands which Celia had seen before. "My dear,
you must not feel. Feeling is the one thing which the mode cannot
permit."

"Pardon me, Madam," answered Celia, looking perplexed now; "but it

seems to me that you are trying to make me into a statue."

"Exactly so, my dear Celia—that is just it. A modish woman is a piece

of live marble: she eats, she drinks, elegantly and in small quantities—
she sleeps, taking care not to lie ungracefully—she walks, glidingly and
smoothly—she converses, but must be careful not to mean too much—
she distributes her smiles at pleasure, but never shows real interest in any
person. My dear, a heart is absolute ruin to a modish woman! She may
do anything she likes but feel. Now look at me. Have you seen any
exhibition of feeling in me since you have known me?"

Celia felt herself quite safe in acquitting Lady Ingram on that count.

"No, of course not," continued her step-mother; "I hope I know

myself and the mode too well. Now, as to walking, what do you think the
Consul said to me last night when you left the room?"

Celia confessed her inability to guess it.

"He said, 'What a pity that young lady cannot walk!'"

Celia's eyes opened rather widely.

"It is quite true, you absolutely cannot walk. You have no idea of
walking but to go backwards or forwards. A walk should be a graceful,
gliding motion, only just not dancing. There—that will do for this
morning. As to walking, you shall have dancing lessons; but remember
the other things I tell you. You must not blush, nor weep, nor eat more
than you can help—in public, of course, I mean; you can eat an ox in
your own chamber, if you please—and above everything else, you must
give over feeling. You can go now if you wish it."

"Madam, you order impossibilities!" said Celia, with tears in her eyes.
"I will eat as little as you please, if it keep me alive; and I will do my
best to walk in any manner you wish me. I will try to give over blushing,
if I can, though really I do not know how to set about it; but to give over
feeling—Madam, I cannot do it. I do not think I ought to do it, even at
your command. I must weep when I am sorrowful—I must laugh when I
am diverted. I will not do it more than I can help, but I cannot make any
promise beyond that."

"Ah! there you are!" said Lady Ingram, laughing. "You island English,
with your hearts and your consciences, every man of you a Pope to
himself! Well, I will not be too hard upon you at first, ma belle. That will
do for the present. By and by I shall exact more."

Celia had a request to prefer before she went.

"Madam," she asked, trembling very much, "if it pleased you, and you
had no desire that I should do otherwise, would you give me leave to
hear Dr. Sacheverell preach on Sunday?"

"Ma chère!" said Lady Ingram, "how can I, a Catholic, choose

between your Protestant teachers? You shall go where you like. The
Consul has been so good as to place one of his carriages at my disposal,
and as I shall remain here all the day, I place it at yours. I will bid
William ask where your great Doctor preaches."

Celia went slowly back to her own room, feeling very strange, very
lonely, and very miserable, though she hardly knew why. As soon as she
reached it, she proceeded to contravene all Lady Ingram's orders by a
good cry. She felt all the better for it; and having bathed her eyes, and
comforted herself with a few words out of her Book, she was ready when
Thérèse came to summon her to go down to breakfast with her step-
mother. They breakfasted in a room down-stairs, the Consul and his wife
being present; the latter a voluble French woman, who talked very fast to
Lady Ingram. The days passed drearily to Celia; but she kept looking
forward to the Sunday, on which she hoped to hear a sermon different
from Dr. Braithwaite's. When the Sunday arrived, the carriage came
round after breakfast to take Celia to hear Dr. Sacheverell, who, William
had learned, was to preach at St. Andrew's that morning. To Holborn,
therefore, the coach drove; and Celia entered St. Andrew's Church alone.
She was put into a great pew, presently filled with other ladies; and the
service was conducted by a young clergyman in a fair wig, who seemed
more desirous to impress his hearers with himself than with his subject.
Then the pulpit was mounted by a stout man in a dark wig, who preached
very fluently, very energetically, and very dogmatically, a discourse in
which there were more politics than religion, and very much more of
Henry Sacheverell than of Jesus Christ.

All the attention which Celia could spare from the service and the
preacher was concentrated in amazement on her fellow-worshippers.
They were tolerably attentive to the sermon, but on the prayers they
bestowed no notice whatever. All were dressed in the height of the
fashion, and all carried fans and snuff-boxes. The former they flourished,
handled, unfurled, discharged, grounded, recovered, and fluttered all
through the service.[6] Whenever the fans were still for a moment, the
snuff-boxes came into requisition, and the amount of snuff consumed by
these fashionable ladies astonished Celia. They talked in loud whispers,
with utter disregard to the sanctity of place and circumstances; and the
tone of their conversation was another source of surprise to their hearer.

"Do you see Sir Thomas?"

"I am sure he is looking this way."

"There is Lady Betty—no, on your left."

"Lady Diana has not come this morning."

"How modishly she dresses!"

"Look at the Duchess—what a handsome brocade!"

"That lace cost five guineas the yard, I am certain."

Then came a fresh flourishing of fans, varied by the occasional rising

and courtesying of one of the ladies, as she recognized an acquaintance
in the fashionable crowd. Did these women really believe themselves in
the special presence of God? thought Celia. Surely they never could!
There was one point of the service at which all their remarks were
hushed, their fans still, and their attention concentrated. This was during
the singing. Celia found that no member of the congregation thought of
joining the psalmody, which was left to a choir located in the gallery. At
the close of each chant, audible comments were whispered round.

"How exceeding sweet!"

 "What a divine voice she hath!"

"Beautiful, that E-la!"

And when the prayers followed, the snuff-boxes and fans began
figuring again.

On the whole, Celia was glad when this service was over. Even Dr.
Braithwaite was better than this. And then she thought of her friends at
Ashcliffe, and how they would be rumbling home in the old family-
coach, as she stepped in her loneliness into the Consul's splendid
carriage. Did they miss her, she wondered, and were they thinking of her
then, while her heart was dwelling sadly and longingly upon them? She
doubted not that they did both.

"Et bien?" said Lady Ingram, interrogatively, when she met Celia
after dinner. "Did you like your great preacher?"

"Not at all, Madam."

"Not at all? Then I wonder why you went. You look disappointed, ma
belle. You must not look disappointed—It gives awkward lines to the
face. Here—take some of this cake to console you; it is particularly
good."

Celia took the cake, but not the consolation.

"At eleven o'clock on Tuesday, my child, we depart for Paris. Do not

give yourself any trouble. Thérèse will do all your packing. Only you
must not walk in Paris, until you have some clothes fit to be seen. I will
order stuffs sent in at once when we arrive, and set the women to work
for you."

"Do you know, Madam, if you please"—Celia hesitated, and seemed a

little uncomfortable.

"Go on, child," said Lady Ingram. "Never stop in the middle of a
sentence, unless you choose to affect the pretty-innocence style. Well?"

"Do you know, Madam, whether there be any Protestant service in

Paris?"
 "I imagine there is a Huguenot prêche somewhere—or was one. I am
not sure if I heard not something about His Majesty having stopped
them. Do not put your Protestantism too much forward there—the Court
do not like it."

"I have nothing to do with the Court, Madam," said Celia, with
sudden firmness; "and I am a Protestant, and I cannot disguise my
religion."

"Oh dear! your Protestant consciences!" murmured Lady Ingram.

"But you have to do with the Court, my friend; it is to the Court that I am
taking you. Do you suppose that I live in the atmosphere of a recluse?
When I am an old woman of eighty, ma chère, very likely I shall repair
to a convent to make my salvation; but not just now, if you please."

"I am not an old woman—" Celia was beginning, but Lady Ingram
interrupted her.

"Precisely, ma belle. The very reason why it is so absurd of you to

make a recluse of yourself, as I see you would like to do,—unless,
indeed, you had a vocation. But, so far as I know, Protestants never have
such things."

"What things, Madam?"

"Vocations, my dear—calls to the religious life."

"Madam!" exclaimed Celia, very much astonished, "ought we not all

to lead religious lives?"

"You are so absurd!" laughed Lady Ingram. "You absolutely do not

understand what is meant by the religious life. My dear child (for a child
you are indeed), the life which we all lead is the secular: we eat, drink,
talk, sleep, dance, game and marry. These are the seculars who do these
things. The religious are those who, having a call from Heaven,
consecrate themselves entirely to God, and deny themselves all pleasures
whatever, and so much of necessaries as is consistent with the
preservation of life. Their mortification is accepted by Heaven, when
extreme, not only for their own sins, but for the sins of any secular friend
to whom they may desire to apply the merit of it. Now do you
understand? Ma foi! what a grave, saint-like conversation you provoke!"
 "Not at all, Madam."

"Let me hear your views then."

Had Celia been left free to choose, Lady Ingram was about the last
person in her little world to whom she would have wished to give a
reason for the hope that was in her. But she felt that there was no choice,
and she must make the effort, though not in her own strength. She lifted
up her heart to God for wisdom, and then spoke with a quiet decision
which surprised her step-mother.

"Madam, I believe all persons to be religious who love God, and

whom God loves. Because God loved us, He gave His Son to die for us,
that we who believe in Him might have eternal life. It is He who saves
us, not we who make our own salvation; and it is because we love God
that we wish to serve Him."

"Well, my dear," answered Lady Ingram, slowly, as if considering

Celia's speech, "I can see very little difference between us, except that
you would have all men hermits and friars instead of some. We both
believe in Jesus Christ, of course; and no doubt there is a certain sense in
which the religious feel love to God, and this love inclines them to the
cloister. I do not therefore see wherein we differ except on a few
unimportant points."

Celia saw an immense distance between them, on points neither few

nor unimportant; but the courage which had risen to a high tide was
ebbing away, and her heart failed her.

"Well, this will do for to-day, my fair divine," said Lady Ingram, with
a smile. "Now bring me my silk-winders, and hold that skein of red silk
while I wind it—or stay, is that a matter of conscience, my little
votaress?"

"On the Lord's Day, Madam, it is, if you please."

"Very well, let the silk alone; I can wind it to-morrow just as well.
Would it be breaking the Sabbath for you to tell Thérèse that I wish to
speak with her? Pray don't if you feel at all uncomfortable."
 Celia gave the message to Thérèse, and then locked herself into her
own room, and relieved her feelings by another fit of crying.

[1a] [1b]A Devonshire phrase, as well as an American one, signifying, in the

former case, "she belonged to, or lived at," the place.

[2] Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," ed. Townsend, 1846, vol. v., p. 550.

[3] Abigail Hill was a cousin and dependent of Sarah Duchess of

Marlborough, and supplanted her in the Queen's favor. She was a violent
Tory. She married Samuel Masham, one of the Queen's pages, created Baron
Masham, December 13, 1711.

[4] Elizabeth Percy, only child of Josceline Earl of Northumberland, and

Elizabeth Wriothesley: born 1665-6; married (1) 1679, Henry Cavendish,
Lord Ogle, (2) 1681, Thomas Thynne Esq., (3) 1682, Charles Seymour, Duke
of Somerset; she died December 1722, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral.
The Duchess of Somerset succeeded the Duchess of Marlborough in the
office of Mistress of the Robes to Queen Anne.

[5] Matt. xxviii. 20.

[6] For the meaning of these technical phrases in "the exercise of the fan," see
the Spectator of June 27, 1711.
 V.

THE HARRYING OF LAUCHIE.

"'Have I received,' he answered, 'at thine hands
Favors so sweet they went to mine heart-root,
And could I not accept one bitter fruit?'"
LEIGH HUNT.

"Now, use your eyes, my young anchorite—if it be not wicked to look

out of the window: this is the Rue de Rivoli, the finest street in Paris. By
the way, you ought not to have been ill in crossing the Channel—so very
undignified. Here is my town-house—that with the portico. Till your
manners are formed, I shall give you a private closet as well as a
bedroom, and an antechamber where you can take lessons in French and
dancing.—— Good evening, St. Estèphe! Is Monsieur Philippe here?"

"Monsieur Philippe is not at himself, Madame; he ride out with

Monsieur Bontems."

Lady Ingram knitted her brows, as if the information were not

agreeable to her. She alighted, and desired Celia to follow her up-stairs.
Through suites of spacious rooms, splendidly furnished, and along wide
corridors she led the way to a quiet suite of apartments at one end of the
house—an antechamber, a bedroom, and a small but elegant boudoir.

"These are your rooms," she said. "I will give you a new attendant, for
I must have Thérèse to myself now. These will be entirely at your
disposal, within certain restrictions. I shall visit you every morning, to
have your masters' opinions as to your improvement, and you will take a
dish of coffee or chocolate with me in my boudoir at four o'clock every
afternoon. Until you are formed, you must dine alone, except when I
dine entirely en famille. Your masters will attend you in the antechamber
every morning. No one must be permitted to cross the threshold of your
boudoir, except myself and your brothers, your own attendant, or any
person sent by me. Do you dislike that?"
 "No, Madam; I am very glad to hear it."

"Ah! my Sister of St. Ursula!" said Lady Ingram, laughing. "But

remember this is only until you are formed, and the sooner that happens
the better pleased I shall be."

"I am anxious to obey your wishes in everything not forbidden by my

conscience, Madam."

"Very well," said Lady Ingram, still laughing. "The conscience

requires a little formation too, ma belle, as well as the manners.
Farewell! I will send your attendant."

She sailed away with her usual languid stateliness, and Celia went
forward into the bedroom. She was vainly endeavoring to find an
unlocked drawer in which to place her hood and cloak, when a low, quiet
voice behind her said:

"Here are the keys, Madam. Will you allow me to open them for
you?"

Celia looked up into a face which won her confidence at once. Its
owner was a woman of middle height, whose age might be slightly under
sixty. Her dress was of almost Quaker simplicity, and black. Her hair and
eyes were of no particular color, but light rather than dark; her face wore
no expression beyond a placid calm. But Celia fancied that she saw a
peculiar, deep look in the eyes, as if those now passionless features
might have borne an expression of great suffering once.

"Oh, thank you!" said Celia, simply. "Is it you whom my Lady
promised to send?"

"I am to be your woman, Madam. I am her Ladyship's sewing-

woman; my name is Patient Irvine."

The "lady's woman" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was

the ancestress rather of the modern companion than of the maid. She was
called by her Christian or surname, sewed for her mistress, and assisted
her in dressing; but in every other particular the mistress and maid were
upon equal terms. The "woman" was her lady's constant companion, and
nearly always her confidante. She sat at her mistress's table, went with
her into company, and appeared as a member of her family when she
received her friends. As a rule, she was the equal of her lady in
education, and not seldom her superior. Her inferiority lay in birth and
fortune, sometimes in the latter only.

"And what would you like me to call you?—Patience or Irvine?"

asked Celia of her new acquaintance.

"Patient, if you please, Madam."

"Patient—not Patience?"

"I was not baptized Patience, Madam. My father was a Scottish

Covenanter, and he named me, his first-born child, 'The-Patient-Waiting-
for-Christ.'"

"What a strange name!" involuntarily exclaimed Celia.

"Yes, Madam; very strange, I doubt not, to such as have never met
with our Puritan practice of Scripture-text names. I have known divers
such."

"Do the Puritans, then, commonly give their children such names?"

"Very often, Madam. I had an aunt who was called 'We-Love-Him-

Because-He-First-Loved-Us.'"

"They called her Love for short, I suppose?"

"Yes, Madam," answered Patient, in her calm, passive manner.

Celia thought this very odd indeed, and turned the conversation, lest
she should get comic associations with texts of Scripture of which she
could not afterwards divest herself. She wondered that Patient did not
feel the ludicrous strangeness of the practice, not knowing that all sense
of the ludicrous had been left out of Patient's composition.

"And how long have you lived in France, Patient?"

"Since I was of the age of twenty years, Madam Celia."

"You know my name, then?" said Celia, smiling.

 "I know you, Madam, much better than you know me. I have borne
you about in mine arms as a babe of a few hours old. And just now, when
I saw you, you looked to mine eyes as the very image from the dead of
my dear Miss Magdalene."

"Patient! do you mean my mother?"

"Yes Madam. I ask your pardon for calling her such a name, but it
ever sounds more natural to mine ear. She was my Lady Ingram for so
short a time, and I knew her as Miss Magdalene when she was but a wee
bonnie bairn."

"What was her name?"

"Magdalene Grey, Madam. She was the Minister's daughter at the

Manse of Lauchie, where my father and I dwelt."

"Then she was a Scottish lady?"

"Yes, Madam, at least she was born in Scotland, and her mother was
Scottish. Her father, Mr. Grey, was English by descent, though his
fathers had dwelt in Scotland for three generations afore him."

"And where did my father meet with her? He was not Scottish?"

"He was not, Madam. And I will tell you all the story if it please you;
but will you not dress now?"

"You can tell me while I comb my hair, Patient. I want to know all
about it."

"May I do it for you, Madam? I can speak now, if that be your

pleasure; but 'tis almost necessary that I tell mine own story in hers."

"Will it pain you, Patient?" asked Celia, kindly.

"No, Madam; I am far past that," answered Patient, in her calm,

passionless voice.

"Then please to let me hear it."

 "My father's name, please you," Patient began, "was Alexander
Leslie, and he dwelt on Lauchie Farm, near to the Manse. And sith Mr.
Grey, our Minister, wedded Mrs. Jean Leslie, of the same clan, it fell out
that Miss Magdalene and I were somewhat akin, though in worldly
goods she was much beyond us. For Mr. Grey was not one of our poor
ministers of Scotland, but a rich Englishman, who made his way into
what the English deemed our wild valleys, for no cause but only the love
of Christ. Miss Magdalene being an only bairn, without brother or sister,
it so fell that I and Roswith were called up whiles to the Manse to divert
her."

"You and who?"

"Roswith, my sister."

"What strange names your father gave his daughters!"

"Ay, that was a strange name, and all said so. It came out of an old
chronicle that he had, a very ancient book, and he deemed it a fair name,
and gave it in the baptizing to his youngest-born. Those were evil days,
Madam, on which we fell. Yet why should I call them evil, when they
were days of growing in the truth, and of the great honor of suffering for
the Lord's sake? Mr. Grey, your grandfather, Madam, was a very
gracious man, and did preach most savory discourses. Wherefore, he was
one of the first on whom the blow fell. And when King Charles sent his
troopers into our parts, under command of Claverhouse,[1] bidding them
hunt and slay all that would not conform unto his way, they came, one of
the first places, into our valley. Many an humble and honest
husbandman, that feared God, was hung up at his own door by the
wicked Claverhouse and his troopers, and many a godly man and woman
was constrained to dwell in caves and dens of the earth until this enemy
was overpast. I could tell many a tale of those days that would stir your
blood, Madam, if it pleased you to hear it. We were amongst those whom
the Lord was pleased to honor by permitting them to suffer for His
name's sake. Mr. Grey refused to fly. He was dragged down, one Sabbath
morn, from the pulpit in Lauchie Kirk, Claverhouse himself being at the
door. He had been preaching unto us a most sweet, godly, and gracious
discourse of casting care upon the Lord, and standing firm in the truth.
And just when he was speaking that great and precious promise of the
Lord, 'Lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world,' the
troopers burst in. Then the whole kirk thronged around our Minister, and
sought to free him from the evil men. Mine uncle Jock Leslie, fell, thrust
through with the swords of the troopers, and many another. But at length
they had their wicked will, and bound us, men, women, and children,
two and two, with one strong rope, like a gang of slaves going to the
market-place. I was greatly honored to have the next place to Mr. Grey,
hand in hand with whom walked Miss Magdalene, a sweet young maid
of scarce fourteen years. His godly wife was bound, just before, with
Janet Campbell, an old wife of nigh eighty. So we were marched down
eleven miles to the shore. Ah! but my heart ached for Miss Magdalene
and Roswith ere we reached it! It was a grand comfort to find Roswith
bound with me, for she was but a wee wean of eight years, and I a grown
maiden of twenty. Doubtless this was the Lord's mercy. When we came
to the sea, we saw a great ship lying afar off, and we were all thrust into
boats to carry us thither. When we were aboard, the troopers, some of
whom came with us, did drive us below, and shut down the hatches upon
us: which, it being summer time, was hot and painful, and many women
and children fell sick therewith. Whither we were to go we knew not,
only Mr. Grey surmised that they thought either to sell us for slaves in
Barbary unto the heathen there, or else to convey us unto the King's
plantations in Virginia or those parts; though if they were bound unto
Virginia he knew not wherefore they should set sail from the eastern part
of the kingdom. For three days and nights we were thus kept under
hatches, to our much discomfort, and the ship sailing northwards with all
the speed the sailors could make. During which time we were greatly
comforted with the thought of Christ our Lord, and the three days and
three nights which He was in the heart of the earth. Likewise Mr. Grey
did oft exhort us, and prayed us to bear all that should come upon us
meekly and bravely, and as unto the Lord. Then some of us which were
mighty in the Scriptures did say certain parts thereof for the comfort of
the rest; in particular, old Jamie Campbell, Janet's guidman, and Elsie
Armstrong, his sister's daughter. So passed these three days until the
Wednesday even. And then arose a great and mighty tempest, with
contrary winds, driving the ship down, so that, notwithstanding all the
skill of the shipmen, she lost in one day and night more than she had
gained in all the three. Verily she fled like a mad thing afore the violence
of that wind. And on the Thursday night, a little on the hither side of
midnight, she flying as thistledown afore the wind, we felt a mighty
shock, and suddenly the water came in at our feet with a great rush. Mr.
Grey said he thought the ship must have lighted on some rock, and that a
hole was driven in her. Then the shipmen opened the hatches, and in
dolorous voices bade us come up on deck, for we were all like to drown.
Wherefore we ascended the ladders, thirty-five in all our company, I
alway holding tight the hand of my wee sister. When we were upon deck,
we found from the words of the shipmen that they were about to loose
the boats. So when all the boats were loosed, the troopers filled two of
them and the seamen the third, and no room was left for the prisoners.
Then in this time we thought much on Paul and his shipwreck, and how
the seamen were minded to kill the prisoners lest any should escape: and
we marvelled if they counselled to kill us, seeing there was no room for
us in the boats."

"O Patient! surely they laid no hands on any of you?"

"No, Madam; they left that to the wind and the sea. The three boats
cast off, and we prisoners stood alone on the deck of the sinking ship. We
had neither wit nor material to make any more boats nor rafts. And when
we saw our death thus before us—for our ship, like Paul's, was stuck fast
in the forepart, but the sea beat freely on the hinder—we stood like men
stupid and amazed for a short season. But then above all the noise of the
storm came Mr. Grey's voice, which we were used to obeying, saying,
'Brethren, in a few hours at most, perchance in a few minutes, we shall
stand before God. Let our last hour be employed in His worship.' Then
we gathered all around him, on that part of the ship which was fast on the
rock, and he led the exercise with that Psalm:[2]

'O God, the heathen entered have

Thine heritage; by them
Defiled is Thine house: on heaps
They laid Jerusalem.'

"After the Psalm there was an exhortation. Our Minister bade us

remember that we were the Lord's freedmen—doubly so now, since our
enemies had cast us away from them, and we were left only on the mercy
of our God. Moreover, he recalled that of David, saying in his strait, 'Let
me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great.'[3] Then he
prayed with us; and while the exercise yet lasted, and Mr. Grey was still
praying, and entreating the Lord to deal with us in his mercy, whether for
life or for death,—but if it should be death, as there seemed no other, to
grant, if it so pleased Him, an easy dying unto the little children in
especial—while he prayed, the ship parted asunder with a great crash,
and the waves, leaping up on that part which stuck fast, swept every soul
of us out into the boiling sea."

"O Patient, what a dreadful story! And how many were saved?"

"Four, Madam."

"Only four out of thirty-five!"

"Ah, Madam! the thirty-one were happier than any of the four!"

"Who were saved, Patient?"

"Miss Magdalene, and wee Jamie Campbell—old Jamie's grandson—

and Roswith, and me.'

"And not one of the others?" said Celia, pityingly.

"Not one. They were carried by the angels into the rest of the Lord,
and He would not grudge them the crown of martyrdom."

"And how did you get ashore?"

"That, Madam, I never knew. I mind falling into the water, and
sinking down, it seemed to me, far and low therein; and then I was
buoyed up again to the top, and I tried to make some little struggle for
life. But the waters closed over me again, and I knew no more. The next
minute, as it felt, I was lying with mine eyes shut, methought, in my little
bed at Lauchie. I thought I had dreamed a bad dream, sith I felt stiff, and
sore, and cold, and wet, all over: but as I awoke, I felt it was truly so: and
at last I oped mine eyes and strove to sit. Then I saw that I sat on the sea-
sand, and above me the blue sky, and I all alone: and an exceeding bitter
cry rose to my lips as it came back upon me what had been. When I
fancied I heard a bit groan no so far from me and I struggled up on my
feet, and crept, rather than walked, wondering I had no bones broken, to
a cleft of the rocks whence methought the groan came. And there was
Jamie Campbell, lying sorely bruised and hurt; and when I stooped to
him he lifted up his eyes, and saith, 'O Patient! I thought all were
drowned, and that there was none here but God.' I said, 'Are you sore
hurt, my poor bairn?' 'Yea,' quoth he, 'for I cannot move nor sit, and
methinks I have some bones broke.' Poor laddie! he was in a sad way
indeed. I tare mine own clothing to bind up his bruises, and promising to
return to him, I set out to see if any other might have been saved from
the wreck, ever hoping to find my father, my mother, or Mr. Grey. I
walked upon the sand to the right hand, and saw no sign of any soul: then
I turned to the left hand, and passing Jamie, walked far that way. Not a
soul did I see, and I was about turning again in despair, accounting that
he and I were the only two alive, when all at once I fancied I heard
Roswith's voice. I stood and hearkened—sure enough it was Roswith's
voice, for I never could mistake that. I could not hear whence it came,
and so weak was I become with sorrow and weariness and fasting, that
methought she was speaking to me from Heaven. Then I called,
'Roswith!' and heard her cry as in joy, 'Patient! O Miss Magdalene,
Patient is alive! here is Patient!' And before I knew aught more, her little
arms were around me, and Miss Magdalene, white and wan, stood at my
side."

"How had they been saved?"

"They knew that no more than I did, Madam. Truly, Roswith, like a
bit fanciful lassie, said she thought the Lord sent an angel to help her,
and talked of walking over some rocks. I had not the heart to gainsay the
bairn, and how did I know that the Lord had not sent His angel? Well, we
all got back to Jamie Campbell, but what little I could do for him was no
good; he died that forenoon. Then I said we would set forth and seek
some house, for it was eleven hours gone since we had eaten food. But
afore we could depart, the tempest, which was somewhat lulled, washed
up two bodies at our feet, Mr. Grey's and Elsie Armstrong's. We poor
weak maids could do nought for their burying; but Miss Magdalene cut
off a lock of her father's hair, and kissed him, and wept over him. Then
we set out to try and find some house near. When at last, after two hours'
good walking, we reached a cot, we found to our sorrow that they spake
a strange tongue. Miss Magdalene was the only one of us that could
speak their speech, and she told us that the country where we were thus
cast was the North of France."

"Patient! Patient Irvine, where are you?"

 "Here, Sir," answered Patient to the voice without. "Your brother,
Madam, Mr. Philip Ingram."

Celia was half-way across the room before she remembered that one
side of her hair was still floating on her shoulders.

"I will take him into your closet, Madam," said Patient, as she left the
room.

The colloquy outside was audible within.

"Mr. Philip, will you wait a few minutes? I have not ended dressing
Madam's hair, but by the time you have changed your boots she will be
ready to see you."

"Pray what is the matter with my boots?"

"They are splashed all over, Sir. My Lady would not allow you to
come into Madam's closet with such boots as those, which you know."

"Leather and prunella! Never mind my boots nor my mother neither!"

"Sir!" responded Patient, in a tone which admitted of but one

interpretation.

"Well, come, I don't mean——you are always making me say

something I don't mean, you dear old tease!"

"Sir, I must obey my Lady's orders."

"Must you, really? Well, then, I suppose I must. Eh! Madam Patient?"

"If you will please to change your boots, Mr. Philip," quietly repeated
Patient, "Madam will be ready to receive you in a few minutes."

"Very well, Madam Patient. I will obey your orders."

And the boots were heard quickly conveying their owner down the
corridor. Celia's hair was soon put up, for she was very wishful to make
the acquaintance of her half-brother; and she was in the boudoir waiting
for him before Mr. Philip Ingram had completed the changing of his
objectionable boots.
 "Come in!" she said, with a beating heart, to the light tap at her door.

"Are you my sister Celia? I am very glad to see you—very glad. I

must congratulate dear old Patient on having finished you sooner than I
expected."

The first greeting over, Celia looked curiously at her half-brother. He

was not like what she had anticipated, and, except for a slight
resemblance about the eyes, he was not like Lady Ingram. He looked
older than his years—so much so, that if Celia had not known that he
was her junior, she would have supposed him to be her senior by some
years. Philip Ingram was of middle height, inclining rather to the higher
side of it, slenderly built, thin, lithe, and very active in his movements,
with much quickness, physical and mental. He had dark glossy hair,
brilliant dark eyes, and a voice not unmusically toned.

"Well, Madam!" he said at last, laughingly; "I hope you like me as

well as I do you."

Celia laughed in her turn, and colored slightly. "I have no doubt that I
shall like my new brother very much," she said. "Whom do you think me
like?"

"That is just what I cannot settle," said Philip, gravely, considering her
features. "You are not like Ned, except about the mouth; you have his
mouth and chin, but not his eyes and forehead."

"Am I like my father?"

"Don't recollect him a bit," said Philip. "He died before I was three
years old."

"Edward is not here, is he?"

"No; he is on his travels."

"Where has he gone?"

"The stars know where! He did not ask me to go with him, and if he
had done, my Lady-Mother would have put an extinguisher upon it. I
wish he were here; 'tis only endurable when he is."
 "What is it that you dislike?"

"Everything in creation!" said Philip, kicking a footstool across the

room.

"You speak very widely," replied Celia, laughing, and thinking of

Charley Passmore.

"I speak very truly, as you will shortly find, Madam, to your cost.
Wait until you have been at one of her Ladyship's evening assemblies."

"I am not to go until she is better satisfied with my manners," said

Celia, simply.

Philip whistled. "You will not lose much," he answered.

"Don't you like them?"

"What is there to like?" asked Philip, dissecting the tassel of the sofa-
cushion. "A thousand yards of satin and lace, or the men and women
under them, whose hearts are marble and their brains sawdust! Celia
Ingram, don't let my mother spoil you! From the little I see of you now, I
know you are not one of them. Indeed, I guessed that from what my
mother told me. She said you were absolutely without a scrap of fine
breeding—which she meant as a censure, and I took as a compliment. I
know what your grand ladies are, and what their fine breeding is! And I
hope you are a true English girl, with a heart in you, and not one of these
finnicking, fussy, fickle, faithless French-women!"

Philip let the sofa-cushion go when he had relieved his feelings by

this burst of alliteration.

"I hope I have a heart, dear Philip," replied Celia. "But can you find
no friends anywhere?"

"Just one," said Philip, "that is, beside Ned. You see, when Ned is
here, he is master; but when he is away, I am not master: her Ladyship is
mistress and master too."

"But surely, Philip, you do not wish to disobey your mother?"

 "Disobey my mother!" answered Philip, reflectively, and resuming the
sofa-cushion. "Well, Madam, I never get much chance of doing that. You
don't know the sort of game my mother can play sometimes!"

"What do you mean, Philip?"

"I will tell you what I mean. Celia, there is a very, very pleasant
prospect before you. Imprimis, Madam, you will be converted; that is, if
she can manage it; and if she can't, it will show that you are a clever
hand. In the latter case, the probability is that she won't think you worth
the waste of any more time; but if she succeed in converting you, she
will then proceed to form you. She will turn your feet out, and pinch
your waist in, and stick your head up, and make you laugh when you are
angry, and cry when you are pleased. She will teach you to talk without
interruption for an hour, and yet to have said nothing when the hour is
over. You will learn how to use your eyes—how to look at people and
not see them, and who to see, or not to see. I can give you a hint about
that, myself; a man who wears no orders is nobody—you may safely
omit seeing him. A man of one order is to be treated with distant civility;
a man of two, with cordiality; but a man who wears three is to be greeted
with the most extreme pleasure, and held in the closest friendship."

"But if I don't like the man, I cannot make a friend of him," said
Celia, in a puzzled tone.

"My dear, that doesn't come into consideration. You will have to learn
never to look at the man, but only at his coat and decorations. A man is
not a man in genteel society; he is a Consul, a Marquis, or a nobody.
Never look at nobodies; but if a Duke should lead you to a chair, be
transported with delight. You have a great deal to learn, I see. Well, after
you have got all this by heart—I am afraid it will take a long while!—my
mother will proceed with her work. The last act will be to take your heart
out of you, and put instead of it a lump of stone, cut to the proper shape
and size, and painted so as to imitate the reality too exactly for any one
to guess it an imitation. And then, with a lot of satin and velvet and lace
on the top, Mrs. Celia Ingram, you will be finished!"

"Oh dear! I hope not," said Celia involuntarily.

"So do I," echoed Philip, significantly.

 "But, Philip, I want to ask you one thing—are you not a Protestant?"

"I?" asked Philip, with a peculiar intonation. "No."

"You are a Papist?" said Celia, in a very disappointed tone.

"No," said Philip again.

"Then what are you?" asked she, astonished.

"Neither—nothing," he answered, rather bitterly. "I am what half the

men of this age are, Sister Celia;—nothing at all. I call myself a Catholic,
just to satisfy my mother; and when I see her becoming doubtful of my
soundness in her faith, I go to mass with her half a dozen times, to quiet
her conscience—and perhaps my own. But, Catholic as I am—so far as I
own to anything—I do not believe you have read more Protestant books,
or heard more Protestant preaching, than I have. I have tried both
religions in turn, and now I believe in nothing. I have lost all faith,
whether in religion, in morality, in man, or woman. I see the men of this
city, Protestant and Catholic, either bent on pursuing their own pleasures,
or on seeking their own interests—thinking of and caring for themselves
and nothing in the world else; and I see the women, such as I have
described them to you. I find none, of either faith, any better than the
rest. What wonder, then, that the fire of my faith—the old, bright, happy
trust of my childhood—has blackened and gone out?"

"But, Philip, dear Brother," pleaded Celia in great pain, "surely you
believe in God?"

"I believe in nothing," said he, firmly.

Celia turned away, grieved at her very heart.

"Listen to me, Celia," resumed Philip, now quite serious. "You will
not betray me to my mother—I see that in your eyes. You see I can
believe in you," he added, smiling rather sadly. "There was a time when I
believed all that you do, and more. When I was a little child, I used to
think that, as Patient told me, God saw me, and loved me, and was ready
to be my Friend and Father. All that I noticed different from this in the
teaching of my other nurse, Jeannette Luchon, was that she taught me to
think this of the Virgin Mary, my patron saint, and my guardian angel, as
well as of God. Had I been struck deaf, dumb, and blind at that time, I
might have believed it all yet. Perhaps it would have been as well for me.
But I grew up to what I am. I watched all these highly religious people
who visit here. I heard them invoke the Virgin or the saints to favor—not
to forgive, mind you—but, before its committal, to prosper—what they
admitted to be sin. I saw my own mother come home from receiving the
Eucharist at mass, and tell lies: I knew they were lies, I was taught that it
was very wicked in me to tell lies, and also that, in receiving the
Eucharist, she had received Christ Himself into her soul. How could I
believe both the one and the other? I was taught, again, that if I
committed the most fearful sins, a man like myself, sitting in a
confessional, could with two words cleanse my soul as if I had never
sinned. How could I believe that, when from that cleansing I came home
and found it no whit the cleaner? I turn to Protestantism. I hear your
preachers tell me that 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord;' that
God has 'purer eyes than to behold sin;' and many another passage to the
like effect. The next week I hear that one of the pastor's flock, or perhaps
the very preacher himself, has been guilty of some glaring breach of
common honesty. Does the man mean me to believe—does he believe
himself—what he told me from the pulpit only a few days earlier?
Romans and English, all are alike. I find the most zealous professors of
religion in both communions guilty of acts with which I, who profess no
religion at all, would scorn to sully my conscience. I have seen only one
man who seems to me really honest and anxious to find out the truth, and
he is about where I am; only that his mind is deeper and stronger than
mine, and therefore he suffers more."

"But Edward!"

"Oh, Edward! He is a Protestant after your own heart. But he could

not enter into my feelings at all. He is one of your simple, honest folks,
who believe what they are taught, and do not trouble themselves about
the parts of the puzzle not fitting."

"Philip, I do not know what to say to you," answered his sister,

candidly. "I do not think we ought to look at other people, and take our
religion from what they do, or do not do, but only from God Himself. If
you would read the Bible"—

"I have read it," he interrupted.

 "And do you find nothing to satisfy you there?" asked Celia, in
surprise.

"I will tell you what I find. Very ancient writings, and very beautiful
language, which I admire exceedingly; but nothing upon which I can
rely."

"Not in God's Word?"

"How do I know that it is God's Word? How can I be sure that there is
a God at all?"

Celia was silent. Such questions had never suggested themselves to

her mind before, and she knew not how to deal with them. At length she
said—

"Philip, I believe in one God, who is my Father, and orders all things
for me; and who gave His Son Jesus Christ to die for me, instead of my
dying for my own sins. Is this so difficult to believe?"

"I believe that you believe it," said Philip, smiling.

"But you do not believe it yourself?" she asked, with a baffled feeling.

"I have told you," he said, "that I believe nothing."

"Philip," she answered, softly, "I do not understand your feelings, and
I do not know what to say to you. I must ask my Father. I will lay it
before Him to-night; and as He shall give me wisdom I will talk with you
again."

So she closed the subject, not knowing that the quiet certainty of
conviction expressed in her last words had made a deeper impression
upon Philip than any argument which could have been used to him.

"Come in!" said Lady Ingram, that afternoon, in reply to Celia's gentle
tap at her door. "I thought it was you, ma chère. I am glad you are come,
for I have something to say to you."

"Yes, Madam," responded Celia, resigning herself to another lecture.

 "When you have taken dancing-lessons for a month, so that your
deportment is a little improved, I wish you to be present at my first
assembly for this year. Do not be alarmed—I require nothing more of
you than to dress well and sit still. I shall present you to my particular
friends, saying that you do not yet speak French, and none of them will
then address you but such as are acquainted with English. You must
remain in a corner of the room, where your awkward manners will attract
no notice; and I shall put you in Philip's charge, and desire him to tell
you who each person is, and so on. You will then have the opportunity of
seeing really fine breeding and distinguished manners, and can help in
the formation of your own accordingly, as you will then understand what
I require of you."

"Yes, Madam," said Celia again.

"I have ordered stuffs for you, and they are now in the house. My
assembly will be on Thursday week. There is quite time enough to make
you one dress; and you will not appear again until you are formed—at
least, that is my present intention. Thérèse will take your measure this
evening, and cut out the dress, which Patient can then make. I wish you
to have a white satin petticoat and a yellow silk bodice and train, guarded
with lace; and I will lend you jewels."

"Thank you, Madam," answered Celia, giving herself up to all her

step-mother's requirements.

"When you feel tired—I dare say you are not accustomed yet to late
hours—you may slip out of the room and retire to you own apartments.
Nobody will miss you."

"No, Madam," meekly responded Celia again, to this not very

flattering remark.

"I think that is all I need say," pursued Lady Ingram, meditatively. "I
do not wish to encumber and confuse your mind with too many details,
or you will certainly not behave well. I will instruct Patient how you
must be dressed, and I will look at you myself before you descend to the
drawing-room, to be sure that no ridiculous mistake has been made.
Thérèse shall dress your hair. Now help yourself to the chocolate."
 "Patient! will you bring your work into my closet? I want to hear the
end of your story."

"If you please, Madam. I must try the skirt on you in a little while, by
your leave."

So Patient and the white satin petticoat came and settled themselves in
Celia's boudoir.

"You had just landed in France when you left off, Patient. I am
anxious to know if you found friends."

"'Twould make it a very long tale, Madam to tell you of all that we did
and suffered ere we found friends. It was a hard matter to see what we
should do; for had I sought a place as woman to some lady, I could not
have left Roswith alone; and no lady would be like to take the child with
me. So I could but entreat the Lord to show me how to earn bread
enough for my wee sister and myself. The woman of the house who took
us in after the shipwreck was very good unto us, the Lord inclining her
heart to especial pity of us; and she greatly pressed us to go on to Paris,
where she thought we should be more like to meet with succor.
Therefore we set out on our way to Paris. The Lord went with us, and
gave us favor in the eyes of all them whom we had need of on our road.
Most of the women whom we met showed much compassion for
Roswith, she being but a wee bit wean, and a very douce and cannie
bairn to boot. It was in the month of October that we arrived in Paris.
Here the Lord had prepared a strange thing for us. There was an uncle of
Miss Magdalene, by name Mr. Francis Grey, who was a rich gentleman
and a kindly. He had been on his travels into foreign parts, and was
returning through this city unto his place; and by what men call chance,
Miss Magdalene and I lighted on this gentleman in the Paris street, we
returning from the buying of bread and other needful matters. He was as
if he saw her not, for he afterward told us that he had heard nought of the
harrying of Lauchie, nor of our shipwreck. But she ran to him, and cast
her arms about him, calling 'Uncle Francis!' and after a season he knew
her again, but at first he was a man amazed. When he heard all that had
come upon us, and how Miss Magdalene was left all alone in the world,
father and mother being drowned, he wept and clipped[4] her many
times, and said that she should come with him to his inn, and dwell with
him, and be unto him as a daughter, for he had no child. Then she prayed
him to have compassion upon us also, Patient and Roswith Leslie; who,
as John saith, had continued with her in her tribulation, and, it pleased
her to say, had aided and comforted her. Mr. Francis smiled, and he said
that I, Patient, should be in his service as a woman for her; and for
Roswith, 'She,' quoth he, 'will not eat up all my substance, poor wee
thing! So she shall come too, and in time Patient must learn her meetly
unto the same place to some other lady.' Thus it was, Madam, that at the
time when we seemed at the worst, the Lord delivered us out of our
distresses."

"Then you went back to Scotland?"

"No, Madam, we never went back. For when Mr. Francis heard all, of
the harrying of Lauchie, and the evil deeds of the King's troopers, and
the cruelty of Claverhouse, he said there could be no peace in Scotland
more, and sent word unto his steward to sell all, and remit the money to
him. He bought a house at Paris, and there we dwelt all."

"It was in her uncle's house, then, that my mother met my father?"

"There, Madam. Sir Edward took her to England, for they married in
January, 1687, while King James yet reigned; and Sir Edward was great
with the King, and had a fine land there. Her son, your brother, Madam,
that is Sir Edward now, was born in London, in the summer of 1688."

"Patient, what kind of man was my father?"

"He was a very noble-looking gentleman, Madam, tall, with dark eyes
and hair."

"Yes, but I mean in his mind and character?"

"Well, Madam," answered Patient, rather doubtfully, "he was much

like other men. He had good points and bad points. He was a kindly
gentleman, and open-handed. He was not an angel."

"You scarce liked him, I think, Patient."

"I ought not to say so, Madam. He was alway a good and kind master
to me. Truly, he was not the man I should have chosen for Miss
Magdalene; but I seldom see folks choose as I should in their places. Yet
that is little marvel, since, fifteen years gone, Patient Leslie made a
choice that Patient Irvine would be little like to make now."

Patient's dry, sarcastic tone warned Celia that she had better turn the
conversation.

"And where was I born, Patient?"

"Well, Madam, you know what happened that summer your brother
was born. He that was called Prince of Wales was born in the same
month;[5] and in October King James fled away, sending his wife Queen
Mary[6] and the babe to France. When King William landed, it was
expected that he would seize all belonging to the malignants;[7] this was
not so entirely, yet so much that Sir Edward was sore afeared to lose his.
He kept marvellous quiet for a time, trusting that such as were then in
power would maybe not think of him. But when King James landed in
Ireland, he was constrained to join him, but he left my Lady behind, and
me with her, at his own house in Cheshire. After the battle of Boyne
Water,[8] whereat he fought, it happed as he feared, for all his property
was escheated to the Crown. At this time Mr. Francis Grey came back
into the country, and for a time Sir Edward and my Lady abode with him
at a house which he had near the Border, on the English side: but Sir
Edward by his work on the Boyne had made the place too hot for to hold
him, and he bethought himself of escaping after King James to France.
So about March, 1691, we began to journey slowly all down England
from the Border to the south sea. Sir Edward was mortal afeared of being
known and seized, so that he would not go near any place where he
could possibly be known: and having no acquaintance anywhere in the
parts of Devon, made him fix upon Plymouth whence to sail. It was in
the last of May that we left Exeter. We had journeyed but a little thence,
when I saw that my Lady, who had been ailing for some time, was like to
fall sick unto death. I told Sir Edward that methought she was more sick
than he guessed, but I think he counted my words but idle clavers and
foolish fancies. At last she grew so very bad that he began to believe me.
'Patient,' he said to me one morn, 'I shall go on to Plymouth and inquire
for a ship. Tend your Lady well, and so soon as she can abide the
journeying, she must come after. If I find it needful, I may sail the first.'
It was on a Monday that Sir Edward rode away, leaving my Lady and the
little Master, with me and Roswith to tend them, at a poor cot, the abode
of one Betty Walling."