This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...value of her lambs. At first she eagerly accepted his proposal; but when she placed the tether in his hand, she raised her eyes imploringly to his face. " Sure it isn't going to kill them ye are? " " No, my dear, it is not; I'd be sorry to hurt a curl of their wool; they'll go to my own flock." " God bless you," she ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...value of her lambs. At first she eagerly accepted his proposal; but when she placed the tether in his hand, she raised her eyes imploringly to his face. " Sure it isn't going to kill them ye are? " " No, my dear, it is not; I'd be sorry to hurt a curl of their wool; they'll go to my own flock." " God bless you," she said, and departed with a smiling countenance. But one of the most interesting of all the graceful women of this interesting district was a peasant, who had been eminently handsome, and was still remarkable for a singular and graceful deportment; hers was a touching instance of female devotion to what it had loved from childhood, and which no circumstances could change. Nancy had loved her cousin James something, (we have forgotten the name, ) and after much delay and endurance, had received the priest's permission to marry; and just when everything was arranged, that is, a suflicient sum collected to pay " his reverence," the bachelor changed his mind, and went off to a "couple-beggar " with another cousin, for the priest of his parish refused to sanction such inconstancy. " Let him go," said poor Nancy, " let him go, I owe him no ill-will; if the change was to come over him, it is a deal better it should come before he couldn't go back of his humour; only think what I'd have to go through, if he turned against me after he married me--let him go." Nancy soon had another, and another lover, but she never heeded their love: she did not shim the long walk to the chapel with her friends, nor the society of the turf-diggers, and she was as ready as ever at " a quilting." And our readers may as Well know, that when, after...
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