Patsy

e press-gang, and when her Uncle Julian, having talked to Captain Laurence, approached her on th

'press' found you there alone

rs," said Patsy, looking at him with bright, c

h experience, and he only sm

e which so witched the

o run, and you can't run fast in

gartered, a bathing dress and a sash! I would that

firmed Patsy soothingly, "if you will gi

I am not sure. They recall somethi

ped her hands

ng against him. "I shall not tell a soul

till better if I d

you, Uncle Julian! And

time when I was young-young as yo

, Uncle Julian-you said so you

hem would hardly c

did you meet her? Did

to Smyrna. She knew no English. I knew only one sentence of modern Greek, and I was not sure of the me

s always saying it over to me: Zo?

he time, but I know what

e very

ort of languid delight seemed to have been melted and concentrated, and eyelashes like the fringed awnings of a tent. When sh

gers, "I have regular scrubs. You won't ever

ed, "if you had only

about her! What d

ser to her every time. I spoke lower and lower, t

pected a box on the ear, or perhaps an appeal to

e had the sense to talk to me like that, low and in m

the tongue was not unknown to

id it mean? She told yo

ting, "not exactly. I found out.

does 'Zo

li

had said about all that there was to say, and changing your voice like that-oh, I do wish I had been that girl. I don't wonder you don't want to g

d, the likest the Greek girl and all the young things I once lov

I am taller than

a willow branch. I could take yo

me, Uncle Julian; bu

out of the low French window and stood

came into her

rned much," he thought, "b

n as well as in kilt and sandals, or like the girl who played ball on

day is past when I ran after agreeable young women. Generally they hav

think it is to see you, even

-brot

French and to read Latin books, and the mathematic (though that I love not so well),

se all ready for you when you marry. If it were not for the table of affinities in th

the nicest man and the most interesting I ever talked

d her father had not mu

his early inspection; "whither away with such skip-

ed to go help Jean at Glenanmays. The lads are all in the he

you handling the hoe and

an is always indoor

ws drew together. He detested the press-gang a

rieve or I myself would require to accomp

and, I think, Stair's band ran a big cargo last night from the Burnfoot Bay. There were twenty prev

id not like this open defiance

demanded, "where

n. What could twenty customs men do with the like of these? Stair Garland left enough good lads to herd them

Adam Ferris had received for a long ti

vity, "that when the press-gang went to the Bothy of Blairmore to take the lads of

en were not insolent?" he asked, for he knew the manners

nce and a naval lieutenant-besides tha

how unconventionally she had been clad, but s

eather. I had Uncle Julian's yellow sandals on my feet and I got there in time for the lads t

you were?" he

aid also that they had no right on my father's land

e men. Laurence is an honest enough fellow, doing an unpleasant duty, a

iked talking to me. I had Jean's dress kilted below the knee. It was blue, and went well

did that make?"

wered saucily, "but to them it seeme

shook his he

e you will have ladies of your own position to look after you, or we m

ve any old 'camel' women to rule over me. I am not going to leave home, but when I

will ask my

when you ran away with my mother from t

ris smil

a man does not always b

Ferris becomes another

still smiling; "then you will marry

heerfully. "I knew I cou