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There's only a clod inside where once there was a bird." He stood with his head a little to the side, listening to the piper till the tune died, half accomplished, at a tavern door. Then the children and the bellowing kine had the world to themselves again. The sound of carriage wheels came from the Cross, and of the children calling loud for bridal bowl-money.
She and her darling were looking over the window at the tumultuous crowd of children scrambling for Young Islay's bowl-money scattered by Black Duncan in the golden syver sand. Miss Mary in that position could not but have her arm about his waist, and her hand unconsciously caressed the rough home-spun of his jacket. The brothers, unobserved, stood silent in the doorway.
"It is not your bowl-money the bairns are gathering at the Cross," said Miss Mary simply. "True," he acknowledged; "but she went because she must. She loves me still, I'm telling you; she has my heather at her heart!" Miss Mary understood. She looked at her dreamer and stifled a sigh.
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