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the Deu. Caledonian Sea, and part of the Hebrides; every avenue, tree, and rock, was yet familiar to Dun- can's recolloction and the feelings of his ſensible heart like his own. He had, without discovering him. self, learned from a peaſant what his father was still alive, but that he bad never overcome the loſs of his son, for whom he lamented every day; that his wife and daughter lorded it over him, holding his pleaſure at nought, and rendering his age extremely unhappy, that they had expelled all his old farmers and vaſsaſs; and introduced the lady's vulgar presumptuous rela- tions, who neither paid him rents; honour, nor obedi- ence. Old Glenellich was taking his evening walk on the road by which Duncan descended the strath to his dwelling He was pondering on his own misfortunes, and did not even deign to lift his eyes as t're stranger approached. but seemed courting the number of marks which the horſes' hoofs had made on the way " Good even to you, Sir," ſaid Duncan ;---the old man started and stared him in the face, but with a look ſo un- steady and harraſsed, that he ſeemed incapable of dis- tinguishing any lineament or feature of it " Good e'en," ſaid he, wiping his crow with his arm, and pass- ing by. - What there was in the voice that struck him so forcibly it is hard to say - Nature is powerful.-- Duncan could not think of ought to detain him ; and being desirous of ſeeing how matters went on about the house. thought it best to remain some days incog. He went into the fore-kitchen, conversed freely with the ſervants, and soon saw his ſtepmother and sister appear. The former had all the insolence and ig- norat pride of vulgarity raiſed to wealth and emi- nence; the other ſeemed naturally of an amiable disposition, but was entirely ruled by her mother, who taught her to disdain her father, all his relations, and whomsoever he loved. On that same evening he came into the kitchen, where she then was chatting,