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"Robbie's mother and father?" I said "You knew them well?"

"Did I know them? I reckon I did," she said "Everyone knew the people! Everyone loved them He was so handsome, and she so lovely! Both Scottish to the bone! She was the loveliest girl, with eyes as green as ee of Bonnie Prince Charlie!"

"Oh!" I said,with tears "Hoish I had known the ?"

I stared at her

"I am an old woman," she said; "I knohen there is a bairn expected"

I looked at one," I said "I sometimes still retch, but less than before"

"The bairn will be here all too soon," she said "He's far less trouble to you in the womb than he will be out of it"

My tears spilled over

"Ach, lass, no need to weep," she said "Perhaps you are houlped "No," I said "I have irl wants a mother, no matter how married she is," said Moira

I clenched my teeth I hated ain But I would not tell that to this old woreen eyes looked out from their wrinkled lids and piercedYou're going to need every bit of strength and endurance you canwife to Robbie Stewart He's as wild a one as ever the McDonald clan has made It's a wonder to us all that you persuaded him to marry you Perhaps it will be you ill ta a son will settle him down"

"Robbie and I shall settle in the lowcountry, at Brianag," I said "That is our hodom, where the royalty of the lowcountry live in a palace, with an English, I pulled my hand away from hers "There is no ," I said, and then added, "Mr Randall is a great and kind man"