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"'Cause he ca'd yersel' a fule," answered the girl, with the utmost simplicity, and no less reverence. The laird drew himself up once more, and looked twenty years younger. But it was not pride that inspired him, nor indignation, but the father's joy at finding in his son his champion. "Mony ane's ca'd me that, I weel believe, lassie, though no to my ain face or that a' my bairn.
"I knowed ye'd be hungry, laddie, after yer long mush, an' mebbe, lassie, ye'll have a snack, too." Constance glanced at Keith, as much as to say, "Didn't I tell you so? It's Old Pete's way." When the cloth had been withdrawn a most appetizing repast was exposed to view.
For a few moments she surrendered herself to a joy so pure and so unexpected. "Oh Maggie, sweetest Maggie, tell me that you love me: that you love none but me, that you will marry none but me," pleaded Allan. "I have aye loved you, sir. I dreamed about you when I was a lassie. I keep it the thocht o' you close in my heart.
Just then Alan Barker, a scion of the noted family, belonging to that branch living in Pigeon Creek, began expatiating on the charms, graces and virtues of a fair lassie bearing the euphonious and patriotic name of America Virginia Stubbins, and closed his eulogy by saying she was "de sweetest, prettiest, best and likeliest gal in all Kentuck," and he could "whip any man in de crowd who dared to deny it."
So the hills flung back his lusty: "I love a lassie, A bonnie Hieland lassie, She's as pure as the lily of the dell." Disaster fell upon him like a bolt out of a June sky. His pony stumbled, went down heavily with its weight on his leg. From the darkness men surged upon him. Rough hands dragged at him. The butt of a weapon crashed down on his hat and stunned him.
"Ay, lassie," replied Sir Archibald, lapsing into the kindly "braid Scots," "I ken fine how she feels." "She's just perfectly happy," said his niece, "and awfully useful and good. She is just like you, Uncle." "What? Oh, thank you, I'm extremely flattered, I assure you." "Uncle, you know what I mean! Useful and good.
Then she walked on and on as fast as ever she could; but when she got to the apple tree, she heard an awful clatter behind her on the road, and that was the old witch and her daughter coming after her. So the lassie was so frightened and scared, she didn't know what to do.
"Oh, we rough old chaps don't require such prettiness about them." Norah displayed her small white teeth in a broadening smile; then she looked at the revered master thoughtfully. "Why do you say you're old? You aren't really old, Mr. Dale." "Oh, aren't I? I wonder what you call old, lassie." "I call father old, and Mr. Bates and Mrs. Goudie."
At length, months afterwards, they learnt in a casual way that a collier had been captured off Yarmouth by a French privateer, about the time the Ouseburn Lassie was making her trip; at least that was the construction the Yarmouth salts who saw the affair from the shore put upon the movements of the two vessels. So a ray of hope came to Fairburn and his wife.
"Lassie," said the lady, weeping as she spoke, "my poor Willie talks a deal o' the kindness ye have shown him in the hour o' his distress, and for that kindness his mother's heart thanks ye.