When he reached it, only Davie was there, turning over the leaves of
a folio worn by fingers that had been dust for centuries. He said
Percy went out, and would not let him go with him.
Knowing mistress Brookes was looking after Eppy, Donal put off
seeking farther for Forgue till the morrow.
CHAPTER XXV.
EVASION.
The next day he could find him nowhere, and in the evening went to
see the Comins. It was pretty dark, but the moon would be up by and
by.
When he reached the cobbler's house, he found him working as usual,
only in-doors now that the weather was colder, and the light sooner
gone. He looked innocent, bright, and contented as usual. "If God
be at peace," he would say to himself, "why should not I?" Once he
said this aloud, almost unconsciously, and was overheard: it
strengthened the regard with which worldly church-goers regarded
him: he was to them an irreverent yea, blasphemous man! They did
not know God enough to understand the cobbler's words, and all the
interpretation they could give them was after their kind. Their
long Sunday faces indicated their reward; the cobbler's cheery,
expectant look indicated his.
The two were just wondering a little when he entered, that young
Eppy had not made her appearance; but then, as her grandmother said,
she had often, especially during the last few weeks, been later
still! As she spoke, however, they heard her light, hurried foot on
the stair.
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