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94 thou knows, with both Burley and Chorley against me. Good-by, lass. I'll go far and long, and niver find as true and kind a heart as thine."

And Sarah put her aims round his neck and kissed him. Then he stumbled down the little wooden stair, and she heard his foot-falls die away on the stone pavement outside, and she followed every step with low, broken prayers for a love stronger and wiser than her love to protect and comfort him in all the way he should go.