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See that your wife's a dancer, whoever she may be, Sim; let her dance and sing and play the harpsichord or the clarsach they are charms that will last longer than her good looks, and will not weary you so soon as that intellect that's so much in fashion nowadays, when every woman listens to every clever thing you say, that she may say something cleverer, or perhaps retail it later as her own."
Her pleasure was to play the harp a clarsach of great beauty, with Iona carving on it to the singing of her daughter Jean, who knew all the songs of the mountains and sang them like the bird. The town girls, too, sang, Betty a little shyly, but as daintily as her neighbours, and we danced a reel or two to the playing of Paruig Dall, the blind piper.
Of each pair one bore clasped to breast a globe of that milky crystal in the sapphire shrine-room; the other a harp, small, shaped somewhat like the ancient clarsach of the Druids. Two by two they stepped upon the raised platform, placed gently upon it each their globe; and two by two crouched behind them.
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