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The Monastery
Chap. XXXVII
'Stave the miller off him,' said Murray, 'or he will worry him dead. The abbot, my lord, offers us the hospitality of the convent; I move we should repair hither, Sir Piercie
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Sir Piercie Shafton introducing the Miller's Daughter to Murray and Morton
and all of us. I must learn to know the Maid of Avenel; to-morrow I must act as her father. All Scotland shall see how Murray can reward a faithful servant.'
Mary Avenel and her lover avoided meeting the abbot, and took up their temporary abode in a house of the village,