THE LAIRDS OF FIFE. VELUTI IN SPECULUM. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO. AND HURST, CHANCE & CO. LONDON. 1828. THE LAIRDS OF FIFE. CHAPTER I. -Narcissa follows. Night Thoughts. MRS FIFE set down her friend, Miss Leslie, and drove her tired cattle on to the hero of Madrake's wild lucubrations. There, however, the tide of curiosity was for once condemned to be stopped. Mrs Fife's vivacity was again deadened by the monotonous spectacle of heavy, wheezing, breathless Mr M'Pech, who had ceased from the personal pursuit of lucre chiefly from want of strength, since she could perceive that he avoided her with that intuitive sense of |