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"Nor all white who are millers," said honest Happer, glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways.
"Dame Glendinning," answered the monk, somewhat abruptly, when the good woman had finished her narrative, "I pray you, do you know the miller's daughter?" "Did I know Kate Happer?" replied the widow; "as well as the beggar knows his dish a canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain maybe twenty years syne."
"Greatest wheat man in the Northwest, and one of the greatest financiers in the country." She turned suddenly to a voice on her right. "I guess they forget to introduce us. My name's Roger Patton." "My name is Sally Carrol Happer," she said graciously. "Yes, I know. Harry told me you were coming." "You a relative?" "No, I'm a professor." "Oh," she laughed. "At the university.
In fact, this was a point on which he would have found it difficult to make up his mind, had there been any necessity for it. But in spite both of wine and of Sir Philip Sidney, the connexion in which he now stood, and that which he was in future to hold, with the lovely Molinara, or Mysinda, as he had been pleased to denominate Mysie Happer, recurred to his mind.
I think I see the old gray knight, as he sate so upright on his strong war-horse, all white with foam; and 'Miller, said he to me, 'an thou wilt turn thy back on the mill, and wend with me, I will make a man of thee. But I chose rather to abide by clap and happer, and the better luck was mine; for the proud Percy caused hang five of the Laird's henchmen at Alnwick for burning a rickle of houses some gate beyond Fowberry, and it might have been my luck as well as another man's."
In the lower apartments, the young men were roaring like thunder, and venting in oaths and exclamations against the fugitives the rage which they experienced in finding themselves locked up within the tower, and debarred from their vindictive pursuit by the wily precautions of Mysie Happer.
She was at length answered by Edward Glendinning, who demanded to know who knocked within, and what was desired. "Speak low," said Mysie Happer, "or you will awaken the English knight. It is I, Mysie Happer, who knock I wish to get out you have locked me up and I was obliged to wait till the Southron slept." "Locked you up!" replied Edward, in surprise.
That the delay of dinner might not increase the Miller's disposition to prejudge Halbert, Dame Glendinning called hastily on Mary Avenel to take her task of entertaining Mysie Happer, while she herself rushed to the kitchen, and, entering at once into the province of Tibb Tacket, rummaged among trenchers and dishes, snatched pots from the fire, and placed pans and gridirons on it, accompanying her own feats of personal activity with such a continued list of injunctions to Tibb, that Tibb at length lost patience, and said, "Here was as muckle wark about meating an auld miller, as if they had been to banquet the blood of Bruce."
The sunlight dripped over the house like golden paint over an art jar, and the freckling shadows here and there only intensified the rigor of the bath of light. The Butterworth and Larkin houses flanking were entrenched behind great stodgy trees; only the Happer house took the full sun, and all day long faced the dusty road-street with a tolerant kindly patience.
There was connected with this chamber, and opening into it, a small outshot, or projecting part of the building, occupied by a sleeping apartment, which upon ordinary occasions, was that of Mary Avenel, and which, in the unusual number of guests who had come to the tower on the former evening, had also accommodated Mysie Happer, the Miller's daughter; for anciently, as well as in the present day, a Scottish house was always rather too narrow and limited for the extent of the owner's hospitality, and some shift and contrivance was necessary, upon any unusual occasion, to ensure the accommodation of all the guests.
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