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Updated: July 18, 2025
Oh, it was home, home! the sight of it, and the smell of the salt air and the flowers in the bog, the look of the early white mushrooms in the sod, and the song of the larks overhead and the blackbirds in the hedges! Poor Ireland was gay-hearted in the spring weather, and Nora was there at last. "Oh, thank God, we 're safe home!" she said again.
Today happiness had strangely come this gay-hearted freebooter's way, and he might have reached out, and seized it, and have kept it for his own. But in the hour of his opportunity he had refused it because he was an outlaw because strong within him was a peculiar code of honor all his own. There was nothing of man-made religion in the soul of Roger McKay.
So it ended most preposterous end with William Hallowell Magee madly, desperately, in love. By the gods in love! In love with a fair gay-hearted girl for whom he had fought, and stolen, and snapped his fingers at the law as it blinked at him in the person of Professor Bolton. Billy Magee, the calm, the unsusceptible, who wrote of a popular cupid but had always steered clear of his shots.
The Lavilettes immediately became pensioners of his affections. The first hour of his coming he himself did not know which sister his ample heart was spending itself on most Sophie, with her English face, and slow, docile, well-bred manner, or Christine, dark, petite, impertinent, gay-hearted, wilful, unsparing of her tongue for others or for herself.
But, try as he would to look important, she was still an inch taller than he. A few moments later they were hurrying quietly through the woods, to the river. There was no speaking. There was only the escaping prisoner and the gay-hearted girl speeding along in the night, the mumbling of the quiet cascade in their ears, the shifting moon playing hide-and-seek with the clouds.
He believed she spoke lightly, girlishly, to tease him that she was only a gay-hearted girl, fancy-free and just a little proud of her conquest over even him. "I surrender. Say what you like," he said, resignedly. "I'll stand anything just to get your letters." "If you go I'll write as often as you want me to," she replied. With that they emerged upon the harvest-field.
Being descended, generally, from French-Canadian sires and Indian mothers, they united some of the good and not a few of the bad qualities of both, mentally as well as physically combining the light, gay-hearted spirit and full, muscular frame of the Canadian with the fierce passions and active habits of the Indian.
Between the building in progress and Sibylla, he was drained. A circumstance had occurred that day to bring the latter neglect forcibly to his mind. Alice Hook Hook the labourer's eldest daughter had, as the Deerham phrase ran, got herself into trouble. A pretty child she had grown up amongst them she was little more than a child now good-tempered, gay-hearted.
But, try as he would to look important, she was still an inch taller than he. A few moments later they were hurrying quietly through the woods, to the river. There was no speaking. There was only the escaping prisoner and the gay-hearted girl speeding along in the night, the mumbling of the quiet cascade in their ears, the shifting moon playing hide-and-seek with the clouds.
Then, too, there were the voices of those French reserves, those gallant and gay-hearted little Bretons of the 20th Corps, assembled in that room to their right, waiting till their comrades had cleared the way before them, or until a shrill whistle should call them to dash to the attack.
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