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"Hamish," said Shenac Dhu severely, "don't encourage her in what is wrong. Elder McMillan says it's wrong to go, and so does my father. They don't even sing the Psalms, they say." "That's nonsense, at any rate," said Shenac Bhan. "The very last Sabbath they sang, "`I to the hills will lift mine eyes. "You can tell the elder that, and your father, if it will be any consolation to them."
But no wonder that you are growing thin and pale; for I do believe, you foolish Shenac Bhan, that it sometimes comes into your mind that Allister may never come home. Now confess." "I often think it," said Shenac, in an awed voice. "Toch! I knew it by your face. You are as bad as my aunt." "Do you never think so?" asked our Shenac. "Think it!" said Shenac Dhu scornfully. "I trow not.
But Shenac Bhan looked very much as if she did not intend to do even that, till the door opened again, and Mr Rugg walked in, followed by Dan, and between them they carried a spinning-wheel. "A big wheel, just like Mary Matheson's!" exclaimed Shenac Bhan. "No; a decided improvement upon that," said Mr Rugg, preparing to put on the rim and the head.
Shenac Bhan had this advantage over her cousin, and indeed over most people that the sun that made them as brown as a berry, after the first few days' exposure left her as fair and unfreckled as ever; and she really was a very pretty picture as she stood laughing and blushing before her cousins. The door opened, and Hamish came in.
"There! did I not tell you?" cried Dan, forgetting everything else in his triumph over Shenac Dhu. Hamish turned and went out without a word. "There," said Shenac Bhan; "you must do it now, Christie." Mrs More took the great shears and began to cut without a word; and no one spoke again till the curls lay in a shining heap at their feet. Then Shenac Dhu drew a long breath, and said,
What do you think I heard him saying the other day to Shenac yonder?" "Shenac yonder" was the youngest daughter of Angus Dhu, so called by the brothers to distinguish her from their sister, who was "our Shenac" to them. Other people distinguished between the cousins as they had between the fathers. One was Shenac Bhan; the other, Shenac Dhu. "I don't know," said Shenac, startled. "What was it?"
"If my mother were only well!" continued Shenac Bhan, and the tears that had risen to her eyes fell on her cheeks now. "We would be too happy then, I suppose. But it seems sad enough that she should not be able to enjoy it all, and take her own place in the new house, after all she has gone through." "Yes," said Shenac Dhu, "it is very sad."
The mother was sleeping, and Shenac and Hamish were sitting in the firelight one evening in September, when the door opened and their cousin Shenac came in. She seemed greatly excited, and there were tears on her cheeks, and she did not speak, but came close up to Shenac Bhan, without heeding the exclamations of surprise with which they both greeted her.
"What in the world should all me? I am busier than I used to be, that is all." "You were always busy; it is not that. I think you might tell me, Shenac." "Well," began her cousin mysteriously, "I will tell you if you will promise not to mention it. I am growing wise." Shenac Bhan laughed. "Well, I don't see what there is to laugh at. It's time for me to grow wise, when you are growing foolish."
And I did go to the kirk at least I went to the school-house, where old Mr Forbes preached," said Shenac. "Toch!" exclaimed Shenac Dhu scornfully; "do you call that going to the kirk? Yon poor old body do you call him a minister? They say he used to make shoes at home. I'm amazed at you, Shenac! you that's held up to the rest of us as a woman of sense!" Shenac Bhan laughed.
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