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ALLEN.

That we have.

Dunarden danced with that sweet Lowland lady,
As though it made him twenty years the younger.

HOUSEKEEPER.

Dunarden! Danced she not with young Dunarden,

Who is, so says report, her destined husband?

ALLEN.

Yes; at the end, for one dull reel or two

They footed it together. But, believe me,
If this rich Provost's daughter be not satisfied
With being wooed by substitute, which homage
The old laird offers her abundantly,
She'll ne'er be lady of this mansion; no,
Nor of her many, many thousand marks,
One golden piece enrich Dunarden's house.

HOUSEKEEPER.

Woe's me! our Malcolm is a wilful youth!

And Lady Achinmore would dance with Claude?

ALLEN.

She danced with him, and with the bridegroom also.

HOUSEKEEPER.

That, too, would be a match of furtherance

To the prosperity of our old house.

BUTLER.

But that she is a widow, and, I reckon,

Some years his elder, it might likely be.