"
"I b'lieve you forget that I'm Ellen Neil's brother: now, Lamh Laudher,
as her brother, I choose to insist on your answering me."
"Is it by her wish?"
"Suppose I say it is."
"Ay! but I won't suppose that, till you lay your right hand on your
heart, and declare as an honest man, that--tut, man--this is nonsense.
Meehaul, go home--I would rather there was friendship between us."
"You were with Ellen, this night in the! Grassy Quarry."
"Are you sure of that?"
"I saw you both--I watched you both; you left her beyond the Pedlar's
Cairn, an' you're now on your way home."
"An' the more mane you, Meehaul, to become a spy upon a girl that
you know is as pure as the light from heaven. You ought to blush for
doubtin' sich a sister, or thinkin' it your duty to watch her as you
do."
"Lamh Laudher, you say that you'd rather there was no ill-will between
us."
"I say that, God knows, from my heart out."
"Then there's one way that it may be so. Give up Ellen; you'll find it
for your own interest to do so."
"Show me that, Meehaul."
"Give her up, I say, an' then I may tell you."
"Meehaul, good-night. Go home."
They had now entered the principal street of the town, and as they
proceeded in what appeared to be an earnest, perhaps a friendly
conversation, many of their respective acquaintances, who lounged in the
moonlight about their doors, were not a little surprised at seeing them
in close conference.
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