"
"Your younger boys seem fine lads," Elsie said; "and Sophie has a winning
way."
Lucy looked pleased, then sighed, "They _are_ nice children, but so
wilful; and the boys so venturesome. I've no peace when they are out of my
sight, lest they should be in some danger."
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH.
"Oh, Lord! methought what pain it was to drown!"
--SHAKESPEARE.
Cousin Ronald was a great favorite with his young relatives. Harold and
Herbert had long since voted him quite equal, if not superior to Captain
Brice as a story-teller; his narratives were fully as interesting, and
beside always contained a moral or some useful information.
There were tales of the sea, wild tales of the Highlands and of the
Scottish Border; stories of William Wallace, of the Bruce and the Black
Douglass, in all of which the children greatly delighted.
Mr. Lilburn's ventriloquial powers were used for their amusement also, and
altogether they found him a very entertaining companion.
Rosie holding a shell to her ear one day, was sent into ecstasies of
delight, by hearing low, sweet strains of music, apparently coming from
the inside of it.
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