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It seemed like chance when it happened, but it was really the first step toward my finding out the strange, beautiful thing I knew soon afterward. From the beginning of my friendship with the MacNairns I had hoped they would come and stay with me at Muircarrie.
Anstruther. I " She paused again and turned toward her son, who was standing watching us. I saw their eyes meet in a rather arrested way. "It was not Mildred Keith," he said. "Miss Muircarrie is inquiring because this girl was one of those she calls the White People. She was not any one I had seen here before." There was a second's silence before Mrs.
"Indeed I will come," I answered. "Now we must go and sit among the other people those who don't care about Muircarrie at all." I went to tea under the big apple-tree. It was very big and old and wonderful. No wonder Mr. MacNairn and his mother loved it. Its great branches spread out farther than I had ever seen the branches of an apple-tree spread before.
Since I KNEW I have dropped the load of ages the black burden. Out on the hillside my feet did not even feel the grass, and yet I was standing, not floating. I had no wings or crown. I was only Ysobel out on the hillside, free! This is the way it all ended. For three weeks that were like heaven we three lived together at Muircarrie.
That was, of course, largely because Muircarrie Castle was in such a wild and remote part of Scotland that when my few relations felt they must pay me a visit as a mere matter of duty, their journey from London, or their pleasant places in the south of England, seemed to them like a pilgrimage to a sort of savage land; and when a conscientious one brought a child to play with me, the little civilized creature was as frightened of me as I was of it.
"Miss Muircarrie does not feel it " "Please say 'Ysobel'!" I broke in. "Please do." He went on as quietly as if he had not even paused: "Ysobel told me the first night we met that it seemed as if she could not believe in it." "It never seems real to me at all," I said.
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