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"It isas you live And it will be ill

for any ither body that daurs to touch it"

"Daurs indeed! I'll no be daured by any body, us Raith, and dinna cross et the invite to do so"

She stepped within her open door and faced him Her eyes blazed, her whole

attitude was that of defiance The passions, which in well-bred woie Prous saould not do to anger her further, and he said,

"I ie"

"I'll no answer you anither word And et the red face if you try it" She could have shut the

door, but she would have thought the act a kind of huuard at its threshold, until Angus, with a black scowl

and soer, walked away She watched him until he

leaped into his boat; until he was fairly out to sea Then she shut and

barred the door; and sitting down in her father's chair, wept

passionately; wept as women weep, before they have learned the uselessness

of tears, and the strength of self-restraint