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Shenac Bhan looked at her cousin a little wistfully. "Am I growing foolish, Shenac? Is it about the house and all the things? Perhaps I am thinking too much about them. But it is not for myself, Shenac; at least, it's not all for myself." But Shenac Dhu stopped her. "You really are foolish now. No; of course the house has nothing to do with it.
"And perhaps it is a fine thing to hef a hotel; and Mr. M'Arthur they say he is a ferry rich man, and he has ferry fine pictures too; but I was thinking that if I will be off the Barra Head on a bad night between the Sgriobh bhan and the Barra Head on a bad night it is not any hotel I will be wishing that I wass in, but a good boat.
"But, Shenac, your Allister speaks kindly of our Evan in the letter your mother got, I mean." "That he does," said Shenac Bhan eagerly. "He says they are like brothers, and he says your father need not be sorry that Evan went away. He needed hardening, and he'll win through bravely; and Allister says he'll bring Evan with him when he comes. You may trust our Allister, Shenac."
So my story has gone on, and will go on a little longer; though that night, when Shenac Dhu went away and Allister went with her, leaving Shenac Bhan to her own thoughts, she said to herself that very soon there would be nothing more for her to do.
There was no chance after this to say anything more about the change, real or supposed, that had taken place in Shenac Dhu, for she talked on, allowing no pause till they had come quite round the garden and back to the door-step; but Shenac Bhan knew all about it before she saw her cousin again. That night, as she was going home through the field with Allister, he asked her rather suddenly,
"I didn't know that you had spoken to Sandy not that it would have made any difference, however," added Shenac candidly. "And, Dan, you don't suppose any one will care for what a girl like Shenac Bhan may say. He'll come all the same to please you," said Cousin Shenac. "Whether he comes or not, I'm going to McLay's raising," said Dan angrily. "Shenac's not my mistress, yet a while."
"Yankee that I am," he admitted, "I seem to be Scot enough to observe the prejudices and folk-ways of my forebears." "Is it your clan flag?" "Bratach Bhan Chlaun Aoidh," he said smilingly. "The White Banner of the McKays." "Good! And what may that be that bunch of weed you wear in your button-hole?" Again the young fellow laughed: "Seasgan or Cuilc in Gaelic just reed-grass, Miss Yellow-hair."
Though they were not so prosperous, they were a far happier household than the MacIvors Dhu. There was the same number of children in each family; but Angus Dhu's children were most of them older than their cousins, and while Angus Bhan had six sons and two daughters, Angus Dhu had six daughters and two sons.
Shenac Dhu made as if she would charge him with the great shears. "Give them to Christie," said Shenac Bhan. "What a work to make about nothing!" "She does not mean to do it yet," said Shenac Dhu; but she handed the shears to her sister. "I don't like to do it, Shenac," said Mrs More.
He wished he could join them in their English play, or better far, that he might take them to the eagle's nest in Stob Bhan, or the badgers' hamlet in Blaranbui, or show them his skill to fetch the deer at a call, in the rutting time, from the mud-wallows above Carnus.
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