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"Can you see aught?"

"Naething There's a heavy le I'er I spoke o'"

"Ay, weel, I hae gotten my feet dressed," and she looked doith

approval at her ribbed gray stockings, and low shoes, the brass clasps of

which she had just latched

David did not answer her, for he was bidding his visitors welcoie turned round with the freshly lit "cruisie" in her hand, and her

eyes were caught by two other eyes, and held as if by a spell She was

conscious, as she stood blushing, that the stranger had been astonished at

her appearance, but she certainly did not dreareat

beauty which had for onehis

sense of it It was only one moment, in the next he turned to David, and

offered to pay his a day for the use of his vacant room, and

a share of his siie said, she could have

the roo day, and as soon as the

matter was settled, he went