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LADY JOHN RUSSELL the wisest course in such circumstances. He kept out of her way for nearly two months. The result was that on 8th June 1841 they became engaged, and were married on 20th July in the drawing-room at Minto. The Duke of Buccleuch, who had married a first cousin of Lord John, lent them Bowhill for the honeymoon, and there the bride received from her mother a charming Border ballad giving the history of the wooing of the lover who

The lassie, however, told him to go home to his "ain countrie," but the poet continues with sly humour and memories of Duncan Gray in her mind:

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