dictum. "Safer with him, up here, than
she would be with maid or housekeeper!
And, after that shock in the winter, the
doctor wants her to be out of doors among
the hills morning, noon and night--practically
all the time, if she can!"

Ah! so far, so good. But just at this
unprecedented moment of excitement
Andrew, the true-penny, had encountered
another Scot, who emigrated before he
did, and was breezily "clacking" with
him at some distance from where two
breathlessly expectant girls gazed down
upon the black top of the nickum's
head--and at his wheeling shoulders in
the great armchair.

"Oh--oh! there he goes--see--curling
up his legs, drawing up his feet
carefully, turning in the seat--standing
up!" cried Pemrose, all Rose at this
crisis, prematurely blooming, as if it were
June, not May, as she stood on tiptoe to
meet a dramatic moment, reveling in the
thought that the daredevil did not know
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