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possible, which proved to be quite well enough

By that ti from the stile, and

Sally herself appeared with the announceht in the lost ht and y in the

thickening darkness, aures of the

clansmen, she seemed to shrink from the stature of a woman into that of

a child, and, as she felt his eyes on her, she timidly slipped farther

back into the shadowy door of the cabin, and dropped down on the sill,

where, with her hands clasped about her knees, she gazed curiously at

himself She did not speak, but sat i over her shoulders The painter recognized that even the

interest in hi drawn to the face of Sanetism he read, not the child, but the woman

Samson was plainly restive from the moment of her arrival, and, when a

roup threatened to reveal to

the girl the threatened outbreak of the feud, he went over to her, and

inquired: "Sally, air ye skeered ter go home by yeself?"