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"I know 'Ben Dorain," said Gilian timidly, "and I think I could tell just the way you felt when you heard the man singing it in a foreign place." "Come away, then, my twelve-year-old warlock," said the Cornal, mockingly, yet wondering too. "This is a real oddity," said the General, drawing his chair a little nearer the boy.
"I heard a forester sing 'Ben Dorain' last Hogmanay at home I mean in Ladyfield; he was not a good singer, and he forgot bits of the words here and there, but when he was singing it I saw the sun rise on the hill, not a slow grey, but suddenly in a smother of gold, and the hillside moved with deer. Birds whirred from the heather and the cuckoo was in the wood."
"I'll warrant you were home-sick when you said it," said the General. "Was I not?" cried the brother. "'Twas that urged me on. For one of my company, just a minute before, had been singing Donacha Ban's song of 'Ben Dorain, and no prospect in the world seemed so alluring to me then as a swath of the land I came from."
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