said I , `` to think of it ! Over there , there 's all that heart could want waiting me ; and the birds go over , and the boats go over -- all that please can go , but just me only ! O , man , but it 's a heart-break ! '' In Limekilns we entered a small change-house , which we only knew to be a public by the wand over the door , and bought some bread and cheese from a good-looking lass that was the servant . This we carried with us in a bundle , meaning to sit and eat it in a bush of wood on the sea-shore , that we saw some third part of a mile in front . As we went , I kept looking across the water and sighing to myself ; and though I took no heed of it , Alan had fallen into a muse . At last he stopped in the way . `` Did ye take heed of the lass we bought this of ? '' says he , tapping on the bread and cheese . `` To be sure , '' said I , `` and a bonny lass she was . '' `` Ye thought that ? '' cries he . `` Man , David , that 's good news . '' `` In the name of all that 's wonderful , why so ? '' says I. `` What good can that do ? '' `` Well , '' said Alan , with one of his droll looks , `` I was rather in hopes it would maybe get us that boat . '' `` If it were the other way about , it would be liker it , '' said I. `` That 's all that you ken , ye see , '' said Alan . `` I do n't want the lass to fall in love with ye , I want her to be sorry for ye , David ; to which end there is no manner of need that she should take you for a beauty . Let me see '' -LRB- looking me curiously over -RRB- . `` I wish ye were a wee thing paler ; but apart from that ye 'll do fine for my purpose -- ye have a fine , hang-dog , rag-and-tatter , clappermaclaw kind of a look to ye , as if ye had stolen the coat from a potato-bogle .
Come ; right about , and back to the XXXXX for that boat of ours . ''
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