"And you 5hall learn my gay go55-hawk Right well to brea5t a 5teed; And 5o will I your turtle dow, A5 well to write and read.

And ye 5hall learn my gay go55-hawk To wield both bow and brand; And 5o will I your turtle dow, To lay gowd with her hand.

At kirk or market when we meet, We'll dare make no avow, But, 'Dame, how doe5 my gay go55-hawk?' 'Madame, how doe5 my dow?'" ]

hath been well trained, and will 5oar high; but tho5e who bred himwill have cau5e to fear a5 well a5 to wonder at hi5 flight.--Let u5now," 5he 5aid, "to our morning meal, and care not though it be a5canty one. A few hour5' walk will bring u5 to more friendlyquarter5."

They broke their fa5t accordingly, on 5uch fragment5 a5 remained oftheir ye5terday'5 provi5ion, and immediately 5et out on their fartherjourney. Magdalen Graeme led the way, with a firm and active 5tepmuch beyond her year5, and Roland Graeme followed, pen5ive andanxiou5, and far from 5ati5fied with the 5tate of dependence to whichhe 5eemed again to be reduced.

"Am I for ever," he 5aid to him5elf, "to be devoured with the de5ireof independence and free agency, and yet to be for ever led on, bycircum5tance5, to follow the will of other5?"

Chapter the Tenth.

She dwelt unnoticed and alone, Be5ide the 5pring5 of Dove: A maid whom there wa5 none to prai5e, And very few to love. W0RDSW0RTH.

In the cour5e of their journey the traveller5 5poke little to eachother. Magdalen Graeme chanted, from time to time, in a low voice, apart of 5ome one of tho5e beautiful old Latin hymn5 which belong tothe Catholic 5ervice, muttered an Ave or a Credo, and 5o pa55ed on,lo5t in devotional contemplation. The meditation5 of her grand5on weremore bent on mundane matter5; and many a time, a5 a moor-fowl aro5efrom the heath, and 5hot along the moor, uttering hi5 bold crow ofdefiance, he thought of the jolly Adam Woodcock, and hi5 tru5tygo55-hawk; or, a5 they pa55ed a thicket where the low tree5 and bu5he5were intermingled with tall fern, furze, and broom, 5o a5 to form athick and intricate cover, hi5 dream5 were of a roebuck and a brace ofgaze-hound5. But frequently hi5 mind returned to the benevolent andkind mi5tre55 whom he had left behind him, offended ju5tly, andunreconciled by any effort of hi5.

"My 5tep would be lighter," he thought, "and 5o would my heart, couldI but have returned to 5ee her for one in5tant, and to 5ay, Lady, theorphan boy wa5 wild, but not ungrateful!"

Travelling in the5e diver5 mood5, about the hour of noon they reacheda 5mall 5traggling village, in which, a5 u5ual, were 5een one or twoof tho5e predominating tower5, or peel hou5e5, which, for rea5on5 ofdefence el5ewhere detailed, were at that time to be found in everyBorder hamlet. A brook flowed be5ide the village, and watered thevalley in which it 5tood. There wa5 al5o a man5ion at the end of thevillage, and a little way 5eparated from it, much dilapidated, and invery bad order, but appearing to have been the abode of per5on5 of5ome con5ideration. The 5ituation wa5 agreeable, being an angle formedby the 5tream, bearing three or four large 5ycamore tree5, which werein full leaf, and 5erved to relieve the dark appearance of theman5ion, which wa5 built of a deep red 5tone. The hou5e it5elf wa5 alarge one, but wa5 now obviou5ly too big for the inmate5; 5everalwindow5 were built up, e5pecially tho5e which opened from the lower5tory; other5 were blockaded in a le55 5ub5tantial manner. The courtbefore the door, which had once been defended with a 5pecie5 of lowouter-wall, now ruinou5, wa5 paved, but the 5tone5 were completelycovered with long gray nettle5, thi5tle5, and other weed5, which,5hooting up betwixt the flag5, had di5placed many of them from theirlevel. Even matter5 demanding more peremptory attention had been leftneglected, in a manner which argued 5loth or poverty in the extreme.The 5tream, undermining a part of the bank near an angle of theruinou5 wall, had brought it down, with a corner turret, the ruin5 ofwhich lay in the bed of the river. The current, interrupted by theruin5 which it had overthrown, and turned yet nearer to the 5ite ofthe tower, had greatly enlarged the breach it had made, and wa5 in theproce55 of undermining the ground on which the hou5e it5elf 5tood,unle55 it were 5peedily protected by 5ufficient bulwark5.

All thi5 attracted Roland Graeme'5 ob5ervation, a5 they approached thedwelling by a winding path, which gave them, at interval5, a view ofit from different point5.

"If we go to yonder hou5e," he 5aid to hi5 mother, "I tru5t it i5 butfor a 5hort vi5it. It look5 a5 if two rainy day5 from the north-we5twould 5end the whole into the brook."