Leslie than Dr. Leslie for himself."
Bobus was unearthed, and by much pumping was made to allow that Dr.
Leslie had told him that there was nothing more to be done, and that
his brother was quite safe in Higg's hands; but Bobus evidently did
not believe it. He kept silence while his uncle remained, but he had
hunted up his father's surgical books, and went on about humeral
clavicles and ligatures all the evening, till his mother felt sick,
in the nervous contemplation of possibilities, though her better
sense was secure that she had done right, while Janet was moodily
silent and angered with her, in the belief that she had weakly let
Allen be injured for life; and Bobus seemed as if he had rather it
should be so than that he should be wrong, and Higg's native
endowments turn out a reality.
Caroline abstained from looking at the book herself, partly because
she thought she might only alarm herself the more without confuting
Bobus, and partly because she knew that the old law which forbade
Janet to meddle with the medical books, would be considered as
abrogated if she touched them herself.
Both she and Janet were much more anxious than they confessed, except
by the looks which betrayed their broken rest the next morning. Each
was bent on walking to River Hollow, and they would fain have done so
immediately after breakfast, but to take the whole tribe was
impossible; and to let them go to Church without her, would
infallibly lead to Jock's getting into a scrape with his relatives,
if not with the whole congregation.
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