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He was,
consequently, glad to escape from the threatening storm which he
saw brewing in her countenance, and, consequently, made a very hasty
retreat. Barney, who met him in the yard returning to fetch his pack
from the kitchen, noticed his perturbation, and asked him what was the
matter.
"May the Lord protect me from that woman's eye!" replied the pedler, "if
you'd 'a' seen the look she gave me when she thought I was goin' to tell
them the true story of the Shan-dhinne-dhuv."
"And why should she put a sword in her eye against you for that, Bandy?"
asked the other.
Bandy looked cautiously about him, and said in a whisper:
"Because it's connected with her family, and follows it."
He then proceeded to the kitchen, and having secured his pack, he made
as rapid a disappearance as possible from about the premises.


CHAPTER VII. A Council of Two
--Visit to Beech Grove.--The Herbalist

Woodward now amused himself by walking and riding about the country
and viewing its scenery, most of which he had forgotten during his long
absence from home.


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