Your wife will have to fill your mother 's place , -- and your mother was a pearl among women . Do you think this girl is worthy of it ? It is n't possible ! You 've been led away by a pretty face and dairy maid freshness . I expected some trouble out of this freak of yours coming over here to teach school . '' `` Wait until you see Kilmeny , father , '' said Eric , smiling . `` Humph ! That 's just exactly what David Baker said . I went straight to him when I got your letter , for I knew that there was some connection between it and that mysterious visit of his over here , concerning which I never could drag a word out of him by hook or crook . And all HE said was , ` Wait until you see Kilmeny Gordon , sir . ' Well , I WILL wait till I see her , but I shall look at her with the eyes of sixty-five , mind you , not the eyes of twenty-four . And if she is n't what your wife ought to be , sir , you give her up or paddle your own canoe . I shall not aid or abet you in making a fool of yourself and spoiling your life . '' Eric bit his lip , but only said quietly , `` Come with me , father . We will go to see her now . '' They went around by way of the main road and the Gordon lane . Kilmeny was not in when they reached the house . `` She is up in the old orchard , Master , '' said Janet . `` She loves that place so much she spends all her spare time there . She likes to go there to study . ''
They sat down and talked awhile XXXXX Thomas and Janet .
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