of an attachment between him and Jessie had never entered either of their heads.
A little impatient exclamation at his presumption was the first reception of his proposal by Mr. Lindsay, and then an enquiry as to how he expected to keep a wife whom he wanted to take from a home of comfort and plenty. George replied that he hoped to take her to Gundabook, and they would work up together, as her father and mother had done before them. He asked for no money with his wife, but he earnestly desired the consent of Jessie's parents. He had no doubt that he would make his way with her by his side, for the thought of her had helped him well through the year.
"And you have done well. I'm no denying that you have done very well, my lad; but I'm thinking that the notion of what you might get with Jessie has been an object; but I'm no going to disinherit myself for my bairns to take up with any man that comes about the place. It is a bad example. Isabel, that sneers at a good, sensible man like McCallum, will be taking up with Harry Weir that came in your place, if her sister Jessie, that we expected better sense from, cannot look higher than the like of you."
"I don't think there's much to be apprehended from Harry Weir, father;' said Allan; "a sham-
