However, to satisfy his daughter, he walked down the road; but returned, saying, he could see nout. "It was no but yon Jenny Owlet again, or may be a wild duck; there plenty o' them i' the Senbee vale. And, what's mare," he added, "I wadend care an' we had twa on them noo, twirling afoor this rouser." So saying, he placed himself in his own large chair before the said rouser, which he roused still more, with a gigantic poker, as was his invariable custom; while his wife laid on the board smoking dishes, one of which was graced, if not by two wild ducks, by two good tame geese. Henry, mean time, was preparing, scientifically, a large bowl of punch; to which was added, on the present occasion, several bottles of choice wine, purloined from the cellars of Lodore House. In the morning, the miller who lives near to where the river ----, after wandering through the vale of S-- B--, and passing under the bridge of which we have spoken, empties itself into the sea, found, stopped in its course, as it floated towards the ocean, by his mill-dam, the body of poor John Dixon. And Betsy was long before she could get it out of her mind, how his heart had beat against her hand so short a time before it lay still, and cold, in the mill-stream. CHAPTER XIV. "My soul is tormented With fear! Ah, they are dead!" Lady L. had not increased her family since the birth of the twins, and they were, by this time, between four and five years old. Her ladyship now, however, expected to do so, and the event was to take place at Lodore. Dr. Dixon, too, such was the almost superstitious confidence placed in him by Mrs. Montgomery, was to be again employed, which was matter of no small pride, as well as delight of heart, to the good old man.