Simon. "I think I was aware of his death. I saw nothing, heard
nothing, neither was I thinking about him at the moment; but he
seemed to come to me, and I said to myself,'He is on his way home.'
I shall have a talk with him by and by."
Agnes told him she had come to bid him good-bye; she was going
after a place.
"Well," he answered, after a thoughtful pause, "so long as we obey
the light in us, and that light is not darkness, we can't go wrong.
If we should mistake, he will turn things round for us; and if we
be to blame, he will let us see it."
He was weak, and they did not stay long.
"Don't judge my heart by my words, my dear scholars," he said. "My
heart is right toward you, but I am too weary to show it. God bless
you both. I may not see you again, Agnes, but I shall think of you
there, and if I can do anything for you, be sure I will."
When they left the cottage, the twilight was halfway towards the
night, and a vague softness in the east prophesied the moon. Cosmo
led Agnes through the fields to the little hollow where she had so
often gone to seek him. There they sat down in the grass, and
waited for the moon. Cosmo pointed out the exact spot where she
rose that night she looked at him through the legs of the cow.
"Ye min' Grizzle's rime," he said:
"'Whan the coo loups ower the mune, The reid gowd rains intil men's
shune'?
"I believe Grizzie took the queer sicht for a guid omen.
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