said Dan , aside -- `` But the only one who found favour in her eyes was the very last man she should have pitched her fancy on , at least if old Hugh were the judge . Kenneth MacNair was a dark-eyed young sea-captain of the next settlement , and it was to meet him that Ursula stole to the beechwood on that autumn day of crisp wind and ripe sunshine . Old Hugh had forbidden his house to the young man , making such a scene of fury about it that even Ursula 's high spirit quailed . Old Hugh had really nothing against Kenneth himself ; but years before either Kenneth or Ursula was born , Kenneth 's father had beaten Hugh Townley in a hotly contested election . Political feeling ran high in those days , and old Hugh had never forgiven the MacNair his victory . The feud between the families dated from that tempest in the provincial teapot , and the surplus of votes on the wrong side was the reason why , thirty years after , Ursula had to meet her lover by stealth if she met him at all . '' `` Was the MacNair a Conservative or a Grit ? '' asked Felicity . `` It does n't make any difference what he was , '' said the Story Girl impatiently . `` Even a Tory would be romantic a hundred years ago . Well , Ursula could n't see Kenneth very often , for Kenneth lived fifteen miles away and was often absent from home in his vessel . On this particular day it was nearly three months since they had met . `` The Sunday before , young Sandy MacNair had been in Carlyle church . He had risen at dawn that morning , walked bare-footed for eight miles along the shore , carrying his shoes , hired a harbour fisherman to row him over the channel , and then walked eight miles more to the church at Carlyle , less , it is to be feared , from a zeal for holy things than that he might do an errand for his adored brother , Kenneth . He carried a letter which he contrived to pass into Ursula 's hand in the crowd as the people came out . This letter asked Ursula to meet Kenneth in the beechwood the next afternoon , and so she stole away there when suspicious father and watchful stepmother thought she was spinning in the granary loft . '' `` It was very wrong of her to deceive her parents , '' said Felicity primly . The Story Girl could n't deny this , so she evaded the ethical side of the question skilfully . `` I am not telling you what Ursula Townley ought to have done , '' she said loftily . `` I am only telling you what she DID do .
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