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I believe he would have declined it had it not been some hints from his wife, stating that it was a good arrangement, by which I understood there were only two beds in the house, and that when I was preferred to the lass's bed, she had one to shift for. The landlord and I accordingly retired to our homely bed, and conversed for some time about indifferent matters, till he fell sound asleep.
And she would sit and talk o' Robin, and o' Robin's goodness, and o' Robin's sweet ways and words and doings, until I thought sometimes my poor lass's heart would just break within her, if 't had not been broken already these two years. And one day, as she kneels beside th' cradle Ruth having gone to see her folks for th' day I come in unknown to her, and stand to watch th' pretty sight.
Tom turned and saw a tall raw-boned fellow in kilts. "Ay, Alec; wher't' baan?" "There's a wee lassie I promised to meet to-nicht," replied the other. Alec McPhail belonged to the Black Watch, a battalion of which was stationed in the town, and Tom and Alec had become friends. "What's thy lass's name?" asked Tom. "I dinna ken reightly, except that they ca' her Alice.
Her skin was white as milk of pearls; gossamer fine, silken and creamy; translucent as though a soft brilliancy dwelt within it. Beside it Ruth's fair skin was like some sun-and-wind-roughened country lass's to Titania's. She studied us as though she were seeing for the first time beings of her own kind.
Steamer smudges were not an unusual sight, for not fifty miles east was the northern track of the great ocean steamers a track which they were gradually approaching as they made their berths. But a steamer smudge over the port quarter, with the Lass's bow headed due north, was an entirely different thing. Code went below and brought up an ancient firearm.
She widened the distance between them by a step or so, and said again sternly and pale, "I hev nowt to say to thee, whoe'er thou beest." "You know Laura Silver Bell?" "That's a byneyam; the lass's neyam is Laura Lew," she answered, looking straight before her. "One name's as good as another for one that was never christened, mother."
When first I saw it hang, I said, 'This is glamour. But when the frank lass's arms came round me, and her bosom' did beat on mine, and her cheeks wet, then said I, ''Tis not glamour: 'tis love. For she is not like me, but lusty and able; and, dear heart, even I, poor frail creature, do feel sometimes as I could move the world for them I love: I love you, mother. And she loves Gerard."
Bill was resentin' somethin' Smith put in my way. Wal, the lass's the prettiest I ever seen in Colorado, an' as good as she's pretty. Old Bill hinted to me he'd likely make a match between her an' his son Jack. An' I ups an' told him, if Jack hadn't turned over a new leaf when he comes home, thet such a marriage would be tough on Columbine. Whew, but Old Bill was mad.
So the minute I got the money for the check, I came here. I told the man in the front yard I wanted to buy a dog. He's the one who turned me over to you. I wish OH!" he broke off in rapture, coming to a halt in front of Lass's run. "Look! Isn't he a dandy?" Lass had trotted hospitably forward to greet the guest.
I began to think I had made a fool's bargain, that it was merely impossible Catriona should be got on board to me, and that I stood to be set ashore at Helvoet all by myself and with no hope of any reward but the pleasure of embracing James More, if I should want to. But this was to reckon without the lass's courage.
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