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I rrHE frowsy challlber-nlaid of the" Red Lion" had just finished washing the front door steps. She rose from her stooping posture, and, being of slovenly habit, flung the water from her pail, straight out, without moving from where she stood. The smooth ronnd arch of the falling water glistened for a lllOlnent in miJ-air. John Gourlay, standing in front of his new house at the head of the brae, could hear the swash of it when it fell. The morning was of perfect stillness. The hands of the clock across "the Square" were pointing to the honr of eight. They were yellow in the sun. Blowsalinda, of the Red Lion, picked up the big bass that usnally lay within the porch and, carrying it clumsily against her breast, moved off rOllnd the corner of the public house, her petticoat gaping behind. Halfway she met the ostler with whom she stopped in amorous dalliance. He said something to her, and she laughed loudly and vacantly. The silly tee-hee 'echoed up the street. A
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