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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