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Updated: May 29, 2025
"'Mirren, dear, said I, and put my hand on her shoulder, 'we will not be talking that way any more, you and me, and at the stable door o' Finlay Stuart's place I put my arm round the shoulders of his proud lass Mirren, and held her back, and made her look at me. "'My lass, said I, 'in a wee while I will be kissing my trysted wife.
I remember she came to ask my advice. 'D'you care for him, Mirren? I asked. 'Well, mem, it's no' as if I were a young lassie. I'm forty, and near bye caring. But he's a dacent man, and it's lonely now ma faither's awa, an' I'm a guid cook, an' he would aye come in to a clean fireside. So she married him and made a good wife to him, and they had one son.
"'Look at the dog, Ronny, first, said Mirren, but her eyes were laughing. "'I will be hearing him without looking away from you, said I. "And with that I bent my head to kiss her, but her face was turned away from me, and even then I was hearing the growling o' the collie, and wondering where he would be fastening on me. Then with my head quite close to her, I whispered
"I'm thinking there will be some talk between that man and me soon; but I'm no good enough looking to be thinking ye rade here to warn me, Mirren, so I'll be tellin' Ronny McKinnon tae keep his heart up yet when the Seagull's here, but ye'll hiv a big handfu' wi' Ronny."
It was late that night before Mirren got to bed, for the neighbors crowded to speak with her and hear her sing. As they walked to their humble home next forenoon, Mirren expressed her amazement at the heartiness with which she had been received, remarking it was her first experience with the Irish. In reply Archie said we ought to judge people as we find them putting away all prejudices.
Mirren gladly took her offer and tarried next morning to help in cutting and fitting a dress for one of the girls. There were many wagons on the road, but all were loaded with the baggage of immigrants, who, men, women, and all except the very young, trudged their weary way behind or alongside of them. It was late in the afternoon when Magarth's was reached.
But Dan was thoughtful again, and never spoke till we had the sheep in the low sheltered fields. But coming home he was whimsical. "Are they not droll now, the lassies, Hamish here's Mirren Stuart, namely for her good looks, and for the bold spirit of her.
'It is my own sister! he shouted in a scream of joy, and clasped her in his brawny arms. 'O, Mirren, have you dropped from the sky? I would have as soon expected to meet an angel. 'I am just a sonsy Ayrshire lass and have come on my feet and not on wings. Eh, but you've changed ye've worked over hard. 'It has been sweet work, for it was for father and mother.
'Well, then, he said, 'we will go to the spot where the house is to be built and work there. On the evening arriving on which the preacher visited the schoolhouse, they both set out to attend the service. Mirren had a welcome that astonished her, and when they heard her sing her welcome was redoubled. Archie's friend insisted on their staying until next day.
"I was thinking o' that time when we came to the gate o' Finlay's place, Chance and me, and the snow had been cleared from before the stable, and when I looked, there was the Uist pony standing at the door and Mirren busy at the grooming o' him, and her hair was tousled a wee and curled at the nape o' her neck, and her sleeves turned back.
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