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troubled him; he felt supremely selfish, he could not satisfy hiood a parent to so ie, it would have been soements for that solace A post

office did not exist in Pittenloch; if a letter were addressed there, it

lay in Dysart until the Dysart postmistress happened to see some one fro into whose

hands his letters e

parts, would be a circumstance to rouse unbounded curiosity Either

curiosity would be illegitiie would be the object

of endless suspicions

He thought of David, but there would be little coie Allan would have liked well to

confide in David, and explain, as he thought he ought to, his honorable

intentions toward his sister; but Maggie had earnestly entreated that

nothing should be said to her brother "He'll be aye questioningme He'll maybe tell folks, and I'll feel everybody's eye

is on me Forbye, he willna be as happy in what you hae done for him He

thinks now, it was just for your ad for his sel', that you sent hie If he kent you

thocht o' me, he wad be sure it was forfor Davie" Thus, Maggie had reasoned, and

Allan thought her reasoning both generous and prudent