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Updated: June 1, 2025
And so it came to pass that the pretty maid would not look up that morning when, skating homeward from Amsterdam, she became convinced that a great burly boy was coming down the canal toward her. Humph! if I look at him, thought Annie, I'll "Good morrow, Annie Bouman," said a pleasant voice. How a smile brightens a girl's face! "Good morrow, Master Hans, I am right glad to meet you."
Perhaps the strange language made him appear more backward than he really was; but I thought he had little good-will to serve us, and what he had was the child of terror. Alan would have had him carry a message to James; but the bouman would hear of no message. "She was forget it," he said in his screaming voice; and would either have a letter or wash his hands of us.
"Being so," said he, "I would as lief they didna see me. There's bad folk everywhere, and, what's far worse, weak ones. So, when it comes dark again, I will steal down into that clachan, and set this that I have been making in the window of a good friend of mine, John Breck Maccoll, a bouman of Appin's." "With all my heart," says I; "and if he finds it, what is he to think?"
It is pretty to see them stamp to be sure that all is firm. Hilda is speaking pleasantly to a graceful little creature in a red jacket and a new brown petticoat. Why, it is Gretel! What a difference those pretty shoes make, and the skirt, and the new cap! Annie Bouman is there, too.
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