She turned against him and hated him just as much as she had loved him before . `` Ronald Fraser went away with his real wife , and in less than a year word came of his death . They said he just died of a broken heart , nothing more nor less . `` Margaret came home to her father 's house . From the day that she went over its threshold , she never came out until she was carried out in her coffin three years ago . Not a soul outside of her own family ever saw her again . I went to see her , but Janet told me she would n't see me . It was foolish of Margaret to act so . She had n't done anything real wrong ; and everybody was sorry for her and would have helped her all they could . But I reckon pity cut her as deep as blame could have done , and deeper , because you see , Master , she was so proud she could n't bear it . `` They say her father was hard on her , too ; and that was unjust if it was true . Janet and Thomas felt the disgrace , too . The people that had been in the habit of going to the Gordon place soon stopped going , for they could see they were not welcome . `` Old James Gordon died that winter . He never held his head up again after the scandal . He had been an elder in the church , but he handed in his resignation right away and nobody could persuade him to withdraw it . `` Kilmeny was born in the spring , but nobody ever saw her , except the minister who baptized her . She was never taken to church or sent to school . Of course , I suppose there would n't have been any use in her going to school when she could n't speak , and it 's likely Margaret taught her all she could be taught herself . But it was dreadful that she was never taken to church , or let go among the children and young folks .
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