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Anne's House of Dreams

CHAPTER 6
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There's a whole colony of MacAllisters you can't throw a stone but you hit one.

I was talking to old Leon Blacquiere the other day.

He's been working on the harbor all summer.
'Dey're nearly all MacAllisters over thar,' he told me.

'Dare's Neil MacAllister and Sandy MacAllister and William MacAllister and Alec MacAllister and Angus MacAllister--and I believe dare's de Devil MacAllister.'" "There are nearly as many Elliotts and Crawfords," said Doctor Dave, after the laughter had subsided.

"You know, Gilbert, we folk on this side of Four Winds have an old saying--'From the conceit of the Elliotts, the pride of the MacAllisters, and the vainglory of the Crawfords, good Lord deliver us.'" "There's a plenty of fine people among them, though," said Captain Jim.
"I sailed with William Crawford for many a year, and for courage and endurance and truth that man hadn't an equal.


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