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"D'ye ken his wife's name?" she gasped. "I ca'ed her Mirren! And maybe the body's no' mairried! Hech sirs! Hech sirs!" Meanwhile Dickson was bumping along the moor-road on the back of the post-cart. He had worked out a plan, just as he had been used aforetime to devise a deal in foodstuffs.
"Perhaps," said Pamela, "he is like your friend Mirren 'bye caring." "Nonsense," said Mrs. Hope briskly.
"I would not be having him less," she cried, a little pleased as I thought; and then, as she turned to go, "There's a bonny wild lass at McCurdy's old hut, Dan, and she told me where to look for ye. Ye might tell her Mirren Stuart was speiring for her kindly, and thinking naething of Dan McBride, for the look she gied me out o' her black een made me grue." So Belle was still at McCurdy's hut.
On telling her name, she was cordially welcomed. In the morning she was shown the sledroad that led to the lot of her brother. The first sign that she was near him was hearing his whistling. Of the money she had started with she had still $2.25. With daylight next day they started to work. Mirren insisted on taking an ax with her and began brushing the trees Archie had felled.
His sojourn among them during the winter had made him ashamed of his misconceptions you have to come close to people to estimate their worth, and he could say from his soul, 'God bless the Irish: kinder hearts do not beat in human breasts, and told Mirren what they had done for him.
I got him to heel, although, mind you, it did my heart good, his welcome, for we were long friends, and there were few, few that Chance would welcome. But I would aye be liking the dog since the first time I put my arm round Mirren, and that was years ago.
Mirren was curious to see what Archie had been doing, but he took her first to the rising ground, back in the bush, where he had decided to build his house, and then showed her his crops. The rest of the day he spent in cutting and setting up poles to make a shelter that would serve as a cookhouse during the day and a sleeping-place for himself at night.
"Is it the sight ye think ye have now, my droll dark lass?" says Dan, looking down at her, one arm holding her away from him and the great love in his eyes. "There's whiles I come near to hating you when you will be talking like that," said the swarthy girl. "Mirren Stuart brought me word." "You'll be glad to be rid o' me then.
"'Just the one, Mirren, said I, and opened the gate and came beside her. "'Ye will have changed then since last I kent ye. "'Indeed, and I think ye're bonnier yoursel', lass, and I would not be believing that possible, and we walked to the stable door wi' old Chance at our heels. "'They will have surely been teaching you nice talk, the stranger lassies, Ronny.
'Mirren, I have covenanted with God, that I will never forget our father and mother and will do all that in me lies to help and comfort them. He strode on his way to Greenock, whither his chest had gone by the carrier. The ship made a good voyage and in time he got to Toronto, where, with some trouble, he was given a location-ticket for a lot.
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