Chapter 16: XVI

XVI An Apparition “And there will be auld Geordie Tanner, Who coft a young wife wi’ his gowd.” Joanna Baillie “Mamma,” quoth Leoline, “I thought a woman must not marry her grandfather. And she called him the patriarch of her clan.” “He is a cross old man,” added Hubert. “He said children ought not to be allowed on the esplanade, because he got into the way as I was pushing the perambulator.” “This was the reason,” said Francis, gravely, “that she stopped me from br…