show how I value the mate which he has sent me for the year. Let
but my father be present, and I will not dare to refuse thee the
revenge you may claim for a broken sleep."

"Let not that be a hinderance," said the old glover, rushing in
ecstasy into the room; "to her, smith--to her: strike while the
iron is hot, and teach her what it is not to let sleeping dogs lie
still."

Thus encouraged, Henry, though perhaps with less alarming vivacity,
again seized the blushing maiden in his arms, who submitted with a
tolerable grace to receive repayment of her salute, a dozen times
repeated, and with an energy very different from that which had
provoked such severe retaliation. At length she again extricated
herself from her lover's arms, and, as if frightened and repenting
what she had done, threw herself into a seat, and covered her face
with her hands.

"Cheer up, thou silly girl," said her father, "and be not ashamed
that thou hast made the two happiest men in Perth, since thy old
father is one of them. Never was kiss so well bestowed, and meet it
is that it should be suitably returned. Look up, my darling! look
up, and let me see thee give but one smile. By my honest word, the
sun that now rises over our fair city shows no sight that can give
me greater pleasure. What," he continued, in a jocose tone, "thou
thoughtst thou hadst Jamie Keddie's ring, and couldst walk invisible?
but not so, my fairy of the dawning. Just as I was about to rise,
I heard thy chamber door open, and watched thee downstairs, not to
protect thee against this sleepy headed Henry, but to see with my
own delighted eyes my beloved girl do that which her father most