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The Buccaneer Farmer

CHAPTER XII
16/21

You said you hoped things might change.

Do you think any change of fortune could give you the tastes and feelings of a gentleman?
Make you a proper husband for my daughter?
You know the thing's impossible." Kit colored and hesitated, and Peter signed him to be quiet.
"These meetings must be stopped.

I'm as much against such a match as I think you are." "Ah," said Osborn, who looked puzzled, "you hinted something of the kind! I don't know that your point of view's important, but I can't understand." "My meaning's no varra hard to see," Peter answered.

"The lass is bonny and, so far as I ken, weel-meaning and kind; but she has been badly browt up at an extravagant hoose.

She'll not can help her husband, except mayhappen to waste, and she has niver learned to work and gan withoot.
Weel, it seems we are agreed.


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