. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . ter Cormac will be here, before noon, only he comes a visiting on a high-trotting horse, decked with whip and spur, and a gay green riding-coat; and the chil-dren salute him, ftnd stand still as he rides by, and say to each other, thats the young lord of Ard-Flesk; but they bless Master Sidney when he goes along, and they dance before hira in his path. How Nightstar scorns the gay youth on the fine horse, who brings gifts to the mother—and distress to the child! Thus Randy thought, before Lady Elizabeth had arisen from her bed, and com


. Midsummer Eve : a fairy tale of loving and being loved . ter Cormac will be here, before noon, only he comes a visiting on a high-trotting horse, decked with whip and spur, and a gay green riding-coat; and the chil-dren salute him, ftnd stand still as he rides by, and say to each other, thats the young lord of Ard-Flesk; but they bless Master Sidney when he goes along, and they dance before hira in his path. How Nightstar scorns the gay youth on the fine horse, who brings gifts to the mother—and distress to the child! Thus Randy thought, before Lady Elizabeth had arisen from her bed, and commanded that four horses should be harnessed to the family coach, and the new liveries which had never been worn since a royal duchess looked at the * fittings of her London drawing-rooms, and deigned to observe that they were very well— for her ! Her ladyship ordered forth the new liveries, and commanded her little maid to array her in the costly folds of a scarlet cashmere, while a plume of white feathers descended over her left shoulder; and as she. 88 MIDSUMMER EVE stood on the stone steps of the ancient house, the butler and porterbowed behind her, and the footmen, with dress bouquets, bowed before,


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