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And even if Allister were to come back, he might not be content to settle down here in the old quiet way. The land would seem less to him than it seems to you." "But if Allister should not come home, or if he should not stay, my mother will need me all the more. No, Cousin Christie, you must not discourage me. I must try it. And, indeed, it is not I alone.
For she will have everything to learn about society, and who can teach her better than I can, Allister?" "No one, Madame; and Mrs. Archibald was ever good at the uptake. I am very sure if you will show her this and that, and give her the word here and there yourself, Madame, there will be no finer lady in Fife before the year has come and gone. And she cannot be travelling with Mr.
"What else could I do?" said Hamish bitterly. "And my mother?" said Shenac. "She could only cry, and say that Allister had always been a good son to her and to my father, and a dear brother to us all." There was a long pause.
Is it ours, or Angus Dhu's?" Hamish had not considered the question. Indeed, Dan did not wait for an answer. "Because, it is of no use here. If it is ours, we'll draw the rails up to the high field, and get them out of the way before Allister comes home. If it belongs to Angus Dhu, we'll we'll throw the rails into the creek."
It was the dwelling on the same theme, the going over and over the same thing "nothing would happen to him?" "he would be sure to come?" till the words seemed to mock her, they made her so weary of hoping and waiting. For, indeed, nobody seemed to think there was anything strange in the longer stay of Allister.
So my story has gone on, and will go on a little longer; though that night, when Shenac Dhu went away and Allister went with her, leaving Shenac Bhan to her own thoughts, she said to herself that very soon there would be nothing more for her to do.
On Christmas day a letter came from the two absent ones. They were invited to take dinner with some friends in Prairie Park, people who had heard Neil preach when he was in the west, and they declared he would be one of Canada's leading preachers some day. Allister wrote a longer letter than usual to Christina. There was an entirely new note in it.
The excitement of the robbery and the chase was over, and then the conflict with the men was passing. He began to see things truly by the drab light of retrospection. The bullets of Allister and Clune might have gone home they were intended to kill, not to wound.
"I came here a bride, nearly forty years ago, Allister," she said, with a touch of sentimental pity for herself in the remembrance. "So you have had a long lease, Madame, and one like to be longer; for never a better son than your son; and I do think for sure that the lady he has married will be as biddable as a very child with you." "I hope so.
He says he was an unsettled lad before he went away. And, Shenac, he says our Allister beguiled Evan, or he never would have left home. He looked black when he said it. He was angry." Shenac's eyes blazed again. "Our Allister unsettled he that went away for our father's sake, and for us all! Our Allister to beguile Evan, that wild lad! And you sat and heard him say it, Hamish!"
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