On Sunday, the 15th December, she was allowed to be up for a little while, and her sister thus describes the scene. “It was Sabbath evening, and after tea my father, who idolized the child, and never afterwards in my hearing mentioned her name, took her in his arms; and while walking up and down the room, she said: ‘Father, I will repeat something to you: what would you like?’ He said ‘Just choose yourself, Maidie.’ She hesitated for a moment, between the paraphrase ‘Few are Thy Days and Full of Woe,’ and the lines of Burns, ‘Why I am loth to leave this Earthly Scene?’” but chose the latter. That was the last earthly scene for poor little Maidie. Six days later, they laid her to rest in the churchyard of Abbotshall. FOOTNOTES [1] Echlasc = horse-rod, with a goad at the end of it. [2] Cuchairi = “trappers.” [3] Immdorus = door-porch. [4] Feici = ridge-pole. [5] House of Manuscripts. [6] Walther von der Vogelweide, a celebrated Middle High German lyrical poet. [7] Wolfram von Eschenbach, Middle High German epic poet. [8] Watch-tower. [9] 1425. [10] A poem by Prudentius. [11] A collection of fables. [12] Gianfrancesco Gonzaga was made Marquis of Mantua on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor Sigismund in 1433. [13] The great codex of the Ptolemian System of the Universe. [14] The residences of the smaller landed gentry in France, of the old Régime, were called “noblesses” or “gentilhommières.” [15] These were at the end of the garden. [16] One of the lay-sisters. [17] “If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?” [18] A book of riddles. [19] I am afraid Marjorie’s language is sometimes very “shoking” and poor cousin Isa has her own troubles getting her to conform to a more “ladylike” standard in the matter. “To-day,” she confesses on one occasion, “I pronounced a word which should never come out of a lady’s lips, but Isabella kindly forgave me because I said I would not do it again. I will tell you what I think made me in so bad a humour is I got 1 or 2 cups of that bad bad sina tea to Day.”