Promise me that you will never tell her , no matter what may happen . '' `` I promise . Go on -- go on , '' said the young man feverishly . Janet Gordon locked her hands together in her lap , like a woman who nerves herself to some hateful task . She looked very old ; the lines on her face seemed doubly deep and harsh . `` My sister Margaret was a very proud , high-spirited girl , Master . But I would not have you think she was unlovable . No , no , that would be doing a great injustice to her memory . She had her faults as we all have ; but she was bright and merry and warm-hearted . We all loved her . She was the light and life of this house . Yes , Master , before the trouble that came on her Margaret was a winsome lass , singing like a lark from morning till night . Maybe we spoiled her a little -- maybe we gave her too much of her own way . `` Well , Master , you have heard the story of her marriage to Ronald Fraser and what came after , so I need not go into that . I know , or used to know Elizabeth Williamson well , and I know that whatever she told you would be the truth and nothing more or less than the truth . `` Our father was a very proud man . Oh , Master , if Margaret was too proud she got it from no stranger . And her misfortune cut him to the heart . He never spoke a word to us here for more than three days after he heard of it . He sat in the corner there with bowed head and would not touch bite or sup .
He had not been very willing for her to marry Ronald Fraser ; and when she came home XXXXX disgrace she had not set foot over the threshold before he broke out railing at her .
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