Dawtie

The laird had the cup when he left him to call Dawtie; and when they came, it was nowhere!

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

"Dawtie," said her mistress, "tell me what you know about the cup.

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

"Dawtie," he said, with feeble voice but glittering eye, "there is no one I can trust like you.

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

"Dawtie," answered Andrew, "the Lord never does the next best.

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

But Dawtie understood Andrew better than did her mother.

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

Dawtie was sure that a noble of the kingdom of heaven would not wait for the money, but would with delight send the cup where it ought to have been all the time!

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

"Dawtie, I can not see God's eyes looking at me, but I am ready to do what He wants me to do, and so I feel He is with me."

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

Dawtie did not relish the mission, for she had no faith in Crawford, and did not like his influence on her master.

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

Dawtie came to meet him, held out her hand, and said:

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

As soon as Crawford had his things away from Potlurg, satisfied the cup was nowhere among them, he made a statement of the case to a magistrate he knew; and so represented it, as the outcome of the hypocrisy of pietism, that the magistrate, hating everything called fanatical, at once granted him a warrant to apprehend Dawtie on the charge of theft.

The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864