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Updated: June 13, 2025
In a marvellously tender way, for a man who could not go a-courting, he put his hand under the pretty chin and looked down wonderingly, reverently, at the serious upturned face. 'And this is bonnie Eelan Reid? Then Eelan, thinking that he was teasing her gently for being so easily won when she had gained the reputation of being so proud, cast down her eyes and blushed.
He took up his abode there a few months before Eelan Reid came home from school. He had come from somewhere nearer the centres of education had been imported, so to speak, for the special use of Haven Settlement, for the leading men of the place were a canny set and knew the worth of books.
Reid humbly; 'I was only saying to the lassie that I didn't want her to hurry; but I'd be right sorry when I'm getting old not to have some notion where I was going to leave my money it'll more than last out Eelan's day, if it's rightly taken care of. 'But I can't marry unless I should fall in love, said Eelan wistfully.
Alas! among all her suitors there was not such a friend. There was no one else in the town who cared for country walks as Eelan did at least, no one but the schoolmaster. She met him occasionally, walking far from home; he was a quaint, old-looking man, and she thought he had a face like an angel's.
The master had no objection to this; so he brought the boys in and got out his best note-paper he was fastidious about some things and wrote a note beginning 'Dear Madam, telling in a few lines that the money had been stolen and restored. 'What is the lady's name? he asked, taking up the envelope. 'It was Eelan Reid, sir; Mr. Reid's daughter that keeps the shop.
'Oh! what's the use o' talking, father, cried Mrs. Reid; 'if the girl won't, she won't, and that's all. But I can tell you, Eelan Reid, that all your looks and your manners won't save you from being an old maid, if you turn your back on the men. 'I wasn't talking, said Mr.
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