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"It will all go by in a moment like a dream when we know that the one splendid day is coming. And I will send a haunch to the Dubh Artach men that morning; and I will send a haunch to Skerryvore; and there will not be a man in Iona, or Coll, or Mull, that will not have his dram that day. And what will you do, Gerty what will you do? Oh, I will tell you now what you will do on that morning.
The shepherds know her, and answer her in the Gaelic when she speaks to them in passing; the sailors know her, and would adventure their lives to gratify her slightest wish; and the bearded fellows who live their solitary life far out at Dubh Artach lighthouse, when she goes out to them with a new parcel of books and magazines, do not know how to show their gladness at the very sight of her bonnie face.
And here a most unholy vision rose before him of a new sort of sport a sailing launch going about six knots an hour, a goodly rope at the stern with a huge hook through the gill of the luckless critic, a swivel to make him spin, and then a few smart trips up and down by the side of the lonely Dubh Artach rocks, where Mr.
"If I had that fellow," said he, aloud "if I had that fellow, I should like to spin for a shark off Dubh Artach lighthouse."
We should take her to the cathedral at Iona on some moonlight night; and then some day we could go out to the Dubh Artach lighthouse and you know how the men are delighted to see a new face " "You would never think of that, Keith," his cousin said. "Do you think a London young lady would have the courage to be swung on to the rocks and to climb up all those steps outside?"
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