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soon returned, assuring the stranger, with a cheerful voice, "that the horse was properly suppered up, and that the gude-wife should make a bed up for him at the house, mair purpose-like and comfortable than the like o' them could gi'e him."

"Are the family at the house?" said the stranger, with an interrupted and broken voice.

"No, stir; they're awa' wi' a' the servants—they keep only twa now-a-days, and my gude-wife, there, has the keys