`` Wrong ? '' cries he . `` He 's walked more hundreds of miles than he has hairs upon his chin , and slept oftener in wet heather than dry sheets . Wrong , quo ' she ! Wrong enough , I would think ! Wrong , indeed ! '' and he kept grumbling to himself as he fed me , like a man ill-pleased . `` He 's young for the like of that , '' said the maid . `` Ower young , '' said Alan , with his back to her . `` He would be better riding , '' says she . `` And where could I get a horse to him ? '' cried Alan , turning on her with the same appearance of fury . `` Would ye have me steal ? '' I thought this roughness would have sent her off in dudgeon , as indeed it closed her mouth for the time . But my companion knew very well what he was doing ; and for as simple as he was in some things of life , had a great fund of roguishness in such affairs as these . `` Ye neednae tell me , '' she said at last -- `` ye 're gentry . '' `` Well , '' said Alan , softened a little -LRB- I believe against his will -RRB- by this artless comment , `` and suppose we were ? Did ever you hear that gentrice put money in folk 's pockets ? '' She sighed at this , as if she were herself some disinherited great lady . `` No , '' says she , `` that 's true indeed . ''
I was all this while chafing at the part I played , and sitting tongue-tied between shame and merriment ; but somehow at this I could hold in no longer , and bade XXXXX let me be , for I was better already .
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