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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER VI
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But you are entirely mistaken." "Yon wildcat, Conachar, perhaps ?" said Henry.

"I have marked his looks--" "You avail yourself of this painful situation to insult me, Henry, though I have little deserved it.

Conachar is nothing to me, more than the trying to tame his wild spirit by instruction might lead me to take some interest in a mind abandoned to prejudices and passions, and therein, Henry, not unlike your own." "It must then be some of these flaunting silkworm sirs about the court," said the armourer, his natural heat of temper kindling from disappointment and vexation--"some of those who think they carry it off through the height of their plumed bonnets and the jingle of their spurs.

I would I knew which it was that, leaving his natural mates, the painted and perfumed dames of the court, comes to take his prey among the simple maidens of the burgher craft.

I would I knew but his name and surname!" "Henry Smith," said Catharine, shaking off the weakness which seemed to threaten to overpower her a moment before, "this is the language of an ungrateful fool, or rather of a frantic madman.


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