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"And John or George," said the girl, "I could love him for his story." M'Iver lifted a tress of the sleeping child's hair and toyed with it between his fingers. At another mood he would perhaps balance this lock of hair against a company of burghers but fighting for their own fire-end."
I sat by the fire-end and quaffed my ale, no one saying more to me for a little than "There you are!" Well enough they knew my side in the issue my tartan would tell them that but wandering bodies have no politics beyond the conviction that the world owes them as easy a living as they can cheat it out of, and they never mentioned war.
"You see we make no pretence at being other than what we are," I said, softly; "are we welcome to your whey and to your fire-end?" She showed no sign of astonishment or alarm, and she answered with great deliberation, choosing her Gaelic, and uttering it with an air to impress us.
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