"Oh, Maggie! Maggie!" he said almost in a whisper, "you little know how

you try me! Dear girl, forget all, and be happy!" And as her hand lay in

his hand, his eyes fell upon it. It was a brown hand, large, but finely

formed, the hand of a sensitive, honorable, capable woman. It was the hand

with which she had struck Angus Raith; yet Allan bowed his head to it, and

left both a kiss and a tear on its palm.




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