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SHIANA
CHAPTER IV.
THE FAIR.
Abbie.—Well, Sheila, where's Peg?
Sheila.—She went over to William Buckley's. The world wouldn't satisfy Kate without her going over to see young Edmund. We are bothered with her and young Edmund. If you were talking to her she couldn't say two words without having young Edmund here, there and everywhere. She would try to persuade you that he notices her and knows her from anybody else, already, when he is only a week old! The other night, before you came, she told Peg that she herself was his mother, and then that it was she that had baptised him, and in the end she said she was afraid that she would eat him!
Abbie.—Indeed, Sheila, I remember the word right well. I was just coming in at the door when I heard it, and I wondered very much who it was for whom she had so much affection. Do you think Peg will be long?
Sheila.—No, I think not. It is a good while since they went. She told me to mind the fire well, so that it should be burning finely for you and Nora Bawn.[1] And she told me to tell you all that she would not stay away any longer than she could help.
Abbie.—Well, here's Nora. I am before you, Nora.
Nora.—Oh, I don't care, Abbie, when the story is not going on. But where's Peg?
- ↑ bán, white; fairhaired.
