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the church of Letter Kyle. There would be 

 no music because she was not there to play 

 the harmonium ; Uncle Charles would be 

 longer and louder than ever over the re- 

 sponses to the Psalms now that her reprov- 

 ing eye was off him ; Mr. Glasgow no, 



she felt tolerably sure that the Sundays of 

 her absence would not be the ones selected 

 by Mr. Glasgow for walking over to after- 

 noon service at Letter Kyle. 



" Come along, Slaney," said Captain 

 French, sailing down upon her with his 

 hands extended, " I know it's poor fun for 

 you, but you must keep at it." 



They moved off together, and Slaney felt, 

 as she often did, a glow of appreciation of 

 Hugh's desire to make things pleasant for 

 others. She did not notice character very 

 much, except at the moments when it was 

 in contact with herself. Between the mani- 

 festations of her cousin's amiability towards 

 her she habitually thought of him as merely 

 unintellectual. At this stage of Slaney's 

 history intellectual people were to her as 



