Madonna Mary . y it was:—Hugh, a distantfigure on the road, had met the naessenger, hadtorn open the precious dispatch. It was too faroff to tell them in words, or make any other intelli-gible sign. What he did was to fling his hatinto the air and give a wild shout, which theysaw rather than heard. Was it all well ? Nellywent to the gate to meet him, and held by it,and Aunt Agatha come tottering what he did next was to tear down the roadlike a racehorse, the few country folks about itstaring at him as if he were mad,—and to seizeNelly in his arms in open day, on the open road,an
Madonna Mary . y it was:—Hugh, a distantfigure on the road, had met the naessenger, hadtorn open the precious dispatch. It was too faroff to tell them in words, or make any other intelli-gible sign. What he did was to fling his hatinto the air and give a wild shout, which theysaw rather than heard. Was it all well ? Nellywent to the gate to meet him, and held by it,and Aunt Agatha come tottering what he did next was to tear down the roadlike a racehorse, the few country folks about itstaring at him as if he were mad,—and to seizeNelly in his arms in open day, on the open road,and kiss her publicly before Aunt Agatha, andPeggy, and all the world. She said she wouldnot mind, cried Hugh, breathless, coming head-long into the garden, as soon as we heard thatWill was going to get well; and theres the des-patch. Aunt Agatha, and Nelly is to be my wife.* This was how two joj^ul events in the Ochter-lony family intimated themselves at the samemoment to Miss Seton and her astonished CHAPTER XVI. •ND tliis was how it all ended,, so far asany end can be said to have cometo any episode in human Will was still only recovering—putting his recollections slowly together—andnot very certain about them, what they were^Hugh and his mother went through the pre-liminaries necessary to have Mrs. Ochterlonysearly marriage proved before the proper court—a proceeding which Mary did not shrink fromwhen the time came that she could look calmlyover the whole matter, and decide upon the bestcourse. She was surprised to see her own un-finished letter preserved so carefully in Hughespocketbook. Put it in the fire/^ she said tohim, it will only put us in mind of painfulthings if you keep it; and it did not occur toMary why it was that her son smiled and put itback in its place, and kissed her hand, whichhad grown thin and white in her long then he told her of Nelly, and Mrs. Madonna Mary, 271 Ocliterlony was glad—glad to the bottom o
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