[By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine]@TWC D-Link bookBy Berwen Banks CHAPTER XIII 8/12
It is mine," she added, in a clear voice, as they left the kitchen door together. "Wel, anwl, anwl! there's impidence," said one of the servants, looking after them.
"It is mine! As bold as brass.
Well, indeed!" "Yes, I must say," said her mistress, with a sniff, "she might show a little more shamefacedness about it." "There's a beauty, she is," said Will the cowman, coming in. "Beauty, indeed!" said the girl.
"A pink and white face like a doll!" "Her beauty has not done her much good, whatever," said Mrs.Hughes, as she finished her curds and dried her arms. Meanwhile Valmai and the doctor were walking rapidly down the lane to the shore. "Dan, will you take us across ?" said Valmai to a man who stood leaning against the corner of the Ship Inn. "With every pleasure, miss fach; you've been out early," he said, as he pushed out his boat, and, seeing the doctor--"if you please, miss, I hope there's nobody ill at Nance's ?" "Yes," said Valmai, hesitating, "the little one is ill." She did not say, "my baby," as she had done at the doctor's.
At the first contact with the world beyond Ynysoer, where she had been so long secluded and sheltered, a feeling of nervous shyness began to over-shadow her. "Dear, dear!" was all Dan's answer, Once on the island, Mr.Francis found it difficult to keep up with Valmai's hurrying steps.
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