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Updated: June 27, 2025
I have enough to keep me busy till Shenac Dhu comes home, and then I'll have it out with Hamish." The wedding was a very quiet one. It was hardly a wedding at all, said the last-married sisters, who had gone away amid feasting and music.
It is not right to fret because the work you have to do is not just the work you would choose. And you'll break my heart if you vex yourself about because you are not like the rest. Not one of us all is so dear to my mother and the rest as you are; you know that, Hamish. And why should you think of this now, more than before?" "Shenac, I have been a child till now, thinking of nothing.
"But if you were to do the wool, and then something was to happen that I could not plough or sow the field, what then?" asked John gravely. Shenac looked at him, but said nothing. "What could happen, John, man?" said his wife. "We could have it written down, however," said John, "and that would keep us to our bargain. Should we have it written down, Shenac?"
Shenac still pondered over the question of what would be best for them all, and wearied herself with it many a time; but she gave none the less interest to the progress of the house and its belongings. She spun the wool for the carpet, and bleached the new linen to snowy whiteness, and made all other preparations just the same as if she were to have the guiding and governing of the household.
They were sitting on the doorstep by this time, and Shenac laid her head on her brother's shoulder as she spoke. "I know I am all wrong, Shenac. I know I ought to be content as I am," said Hamish at last, but he could say no more. Shenac's heart filled with love and pity unspeakable.
Higher up the bank, where the old ashery used to stand, Shenac and Hamish were sitting. The triumphant shout with which the last and largest of the boats was landed, startled them out of the silence in which they had been musing, and the girl said sadly, "Children forget so soon!" Hamish made no answer. He was not watching the little sailors.
I would like to have had the thought of poor lame Hamish joined with the change; but it does not really matter. You will not forget me; but, Shenac, afterwards you must tell Allister about the summer-seat." "Afterwards!"
Her mother went when it was not too warm to walk the long three miles that lay between their house and the kirk, or when she got a seat in a neighbour's waggon; and Hamish and Dan were seldom away. But Shenac as seldom went. "What is the use of going?" she said, in answer to her mother's expostulations, "when I fall asleep the moment the text is given out.
"O Hamish, my father loved Evan dearly, though he was hard on him. He has grown an old man since he went away; and to-day, oh, I think to-day his heart is broken." "The broken and contrite heart He will not despise," murmured Hamish. "We have all need of comfort, Shenac, and we'll get it if we seek it."
He would soon be his own master, free to guide himself, and he would either do very well or very ill in life; and there had been times, even since the coming home of Allister, when Shenac feared that "very ill" it was to be. And yet at one time he had seemed not very far from the kingdom. During all the long season of religious interest, no one had seemed more interested, in one way, than he.
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