What a bright-looking fellow he is! It does one good to see
him." And the earl followed with his eyes the graceful steed and
equally graceful rider, caracoling in front of the Castle window.
Helen said nothing.
"I think," he continued, "that the next best thing to being happy one's
self is to be able to make other people so. Perhaps that may be the
sort of happiness they have in the next world. I often speculate about
it, and wonder what sort of creature I shall find myself there. But."
added he, abruptly, "now to business. You will be my secretary this
morning instead of Bruce?"
"Willingly;" for, though she too, like Malcolm, had been a little
displaced by this charming cousin, there was not an atom of jealousy in
her nature. Hers was that pure and unselfish affection which could bear
to stand by and see those she loved made happy, even though it was by
another than herself.
She fell to work in her old way, and the earl employed as much as he
required her ready handwriting, her clear head, and her full
acquaintance with every body and every thing in the district; for Helen
was a real minister's daughter--as popular and as necessary in the
parish as the minister himself; and she was equally important at the
Castle, where she was consulted, as this morning, on every thing Lord
Cairnforth was about to do, and on the wisest way of expending--he
did not wish to save--the large yearly income which he now seemed
really beginning to enjoy.
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