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"Yes, I know what you mean," said Pen smiling; "but I want the bread for him," and he pointed to the wounded boy. The peasant-girl showed on the instant that though she could not understand the stranger's words his signs were clear enough. She broke off another piece of the bread and took down the little wooden-handled pail, which was half-full of warm milk.
He surveyed my gray Inverness wrapper and gave me a chuckling nod of approbation. "How are ye, Bub? I like that blanket, I do." In spite of this noble stranger's goodwill and prowess, we still found Fort Sumter a knotty question.
Haggerty was not only hard of head but shrewd. So he set about the accomplishment of the second best course, that of minute and particular investigation. Some one had entered this deserted house: for what? This, Haggerty must find out. He was fairly confident that the intruder did not know who had challenged him; on the other hand, there might be lying around some clue to the stranger's identity.
There was no obvious reason why the stranger's disappearance at the spot should interest him, but his suspicions were quickly excited and it looked as if the fellow had tried to make his acquaintance in order to learn his business in the town. He had come early, hoping to find footprints that might give him a hint, but was disappointed.
The traveller looked so stern that Philemon was really almost frightened; the more so, that, at his frown, the twilight seemed suddenly to grow darker, and that, when he shook his head, there was a roll as of thunder in the air. But, in a moment afterward, the stranger's face became so kindly and mild, that the old man quite forgot his terror.
'It's not a night to turn a dog fra' t' door; it's ill letting our grief harden our hearts. Bell sate down, and threw her apron over her poor worn face, as if decently to shield the signs of her misery from a stranger's gaze.
In fact, in a good-natured way, John Bull is always doubling his fist in a stranger's face, and though it be good-natured, it does not always produce the most amiable feeling.
"I am indeed a stranger here; at least I have not been at the post for a very long time. I have just reached the end of a long voyage." "Indeed," said the girl, interested by the stranger's grave manner. "May I ask where you have come from?" "I have come all the way from Canada, young woman, and I count myself lucky in meeting with such a pleasant face at the end of my journey."
Presently I was aware that the stranger's eye was directed on myself; and there ensued a conversation, some of which I could not help overhearing at the time, and the rest have pieced together more or less plausibly from the report of Sim. 'Surely that must be an AMATEUR DROVER ye have gotten there? the gentleman seems to have asked.
So then Margaret went sorrowfully to the pretty manse to see it for the last time, ere it should pass for ever into stranger's hands. "I think he would have been happy here," she said, and turned heart-sick away. On their return, Reicht Heynes proposed to her to go and consult the hermit. "What," said Margaret, "Joan has been at you. She is the one for hermits.
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