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"The doctor and the scholar
The poor man with his penny fee
The rich man with his dollar
The priest who steals short holiday,
The prince who goes incog, sir
The schoolboy with his dreaoing over classic ground, Maggie, and ill read the 'Lord of
the Isles' together this week, ere we put a foot on it," said Mary, who
was in a merry o also, what shall be done with Drumloch?"
"Mrs Leslie and Bruce will do the best they can; and for the rest, let
things 'gae tapsal-teerie,' as Uncle John says I have oing to be disappointed for a
trifle Oh, Maggie! hoe shall enjoy the great bens, and the corries
hazy with blue bells, and the wonderful isles of Skye and Iona"
"Skye! My mother was a Skye wo shall we be away?"
"Only athe mountains, and the roads are
bad, even the sea road, which is the one we shall take"
"I have a tryst," said Maggie, blushing scarlet; "it is at the end of
August I canna break it; if I did, life would be a miserable uncertainty
to me, and maybe, to some one else"
Then Mary remembered how nearly the two years of Allan's absence were
over; and she understood hat tryst Maggie had to keep "We shall be