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oor Julian; deep, deep in the silent grave, she cannot wake him--cannot kiss him now. Ah well! ah well! Then did she return to his dear room, desperate for him--and Hollands once, twice, thrice, she poured out a full tumbler of the burning fluid, and drank it off like water; and it maddened her brain: her mind was in a phrensy of delirium, while her body shook as with a palsy. Let us draw the curtain; for she died that night. They buried her in Aunt Green's grave: what a meeting theirs will be at the day of resurrection! CHAPTER XXIX. THE OLD SCOTCH NURSE GOES HOME. SIX months at least--this is clearly not a story of the unities--six months' interval must now elapse before the wedding-day. Charles and Emmy--for he called her Emmy still, though Jeanie Mackie would persist in mouthing it to "Aamy,"--wished to have it delayed a year, in respect for the memory of those who, with all their crime and folly, were not the less a mother and a brother: but the general would not hear of such a thing; he was growing very old, he said; although actually he seemed to have taken out a new lease of life, so young again and buoyant was the new-found heart within him; and thus growing old, he was full of fatherly fear that he should not live to see his children's happiness. It was only reasonable and proper that our pair of cooing doves should acquiesce in his desire. Meanwhile, I am truly sorry to say it, Jeanie Mackie died; for it would have been a good novel-like incident to have suffered the faithful old creature to have witnessed her favourite's wedding, and then to have been forthwith killed out of the way, by--perishing in the vestry. However, things were ordered otherwise, and Jeanie Mackie did not live to see the wedding: if you wish to know how and where she died, let me tell you at once. Scotland--Argyleshire--Glenmuir; this was the focus of her hopes and thoughts--that poor old Indian exile! She had left it, as a buxom bright-haired lassie: but oaks had now grown old that she had planted acorns; and grandmothers had died palsied, whom she remembered born; still, around the mountains and the lakes, those changeless features of her girlhood's rugged home, the old woman's memory wandered; they were pictured in her mind's eye hard, and clear, and definite as if she looked upon them now. And her soul's deep hope was to see them once again. There was yet another object which made her yearn for Scotland.
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