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If Maggie had been a popular girl, the loyalty of the Pittenloch wives to

"their ain folk" would have been a sufficient protection against any

stranger's innuendoes; but there was no girl in Pittenloch less popular

Maggie was unlike other girls; that was a sufficient reason for disfavor

Society loves types, and resents the individual who is so coh all our

lives and influences our opinion of things inanimate and irresponsible:

--the book of such inconvenient size or shape that it will not fit the

shelf in our book-case, how ararment we have, and seeh it may be of the finest

h no one knew anything wrong of Maggie, and no one dared to say

anything wrong, how provoking was the girl! She did nothing like any one

else, and fitted into no social groove She did not like the lads to joke

with her, she never joined the young lassies, who in pleasant weather sat

upon the beach, ie had nets to

mend, she mended them at home It was true that her mother was a