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Valmai, for a year will see all our troubles over; in a year's ti, I hope, reconciliation and love to my

dear old father--peace for his last days, Val

for, is it not?"

"Yes, yes; no doubt your presence will be more effectual than a letter"

"He thinks, too," said Cardo, "that a little travel by land and sea

will brighten ines must be so monotonous on this

lonely west coast He doesn't know of the happy hours we spend here on

the banks of the Berwen, but when I return with loving greetings fro that brother with me in

person, then, Valmai, while his heart is softened and tender, I will

tell hie, and if he

refuses, then we must take our oay and be married without his

consent There is the thatch house just above the

for us--it is h old Sianco and his wife

don't make much of it, think how lovely you and I wouldin the thatched porch behind those roses sh those pretty little lattice s under the

eaves"