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McLean suddenly appeared out of the mist, and to their astonishment Miss Ailie was leaning on his arm. She was blushing and smiling too, in a way pretty to see, though it spoilt the effect of Stroke's statement.
Even the gossips, however, had underestimated her distress of mind, almost as much as they misunderstood its cause. Miss Ailie and Miss Kitty, you may remember, were not natives of Thrums.
Gwynne, when the lesson was over and the child had run away. "I knew he would allow Ailie to learn everything at the right time." Olive made no answer.
Now McLean had seen Tommy's tears also, and being a kindly man he dropped the satirist and chimed in warmly, "And if I had not asked Miss Ailie to marry me I should have lost the great happiness of my life, so you may all imagine how beholden I feel to Tommy."
An almost imperceptible breeze had sprung up, and the way made by the vessel as she passed through the water was indicated by a stream of what appeared lambent blue flame. "Looking at the fish, Ailie, as usual?" said the doctor as he came up. "What are they saying to you to-night?"
With many slight grins, as though to say, "Take care, now, else I'll bite," the small monkey allowed Ailie to pat its head and stroke its back. Then it permitted her to take hold of its hand, and draw it towards her.
A cry of horror burst from the men in the boat, and every man seized a musket; but before an aim could be taken the struggle was over; the monster had dived with its prey, and nothing but a few streaks of red foam floated on the troubled water. Ailie did not move. She stood with her hands tightly clasped and her eyes starting almost out of their sockets. At last her feelings found vent.
He was a grand soldier, and a sportsman; a great tall man, like you will be. Ailie says you 'have his face. But he went to hell" this in an awestruck whisper "through eating too much opium, like some of the natives do out there. I wonder if it's nice stuff to eat; don't you?"
Had Solomon, in all his glory, been handing down the Queen of Sheba at his palace gate he could not have done it more daintily, more tenderly, more like a gentleman, than did James the Howgate carrier, when he lifted down Ailie his wife. The contrast of his small, swarthy, weather-beaten, keen, worldly face to hers pale, subdued, and beautiful was something wonderful.
Ailie Sim's public was on the road-side about a mile before him, but there would be a parcel of young fellows there on the Saturday night, and that was a bar to civil conversation. Other "gudemen and gudewives," as the farmers and their dames are termed in Scotland, successively presented themselves to his imagination.
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