Gavinia

He also called Gavinia ben, and, before she could ward him off, the masterful rogue had saluted her on the cheek.

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"Why, Gavinia, that is how every lady would like a man to love her."

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"Gavinia," said Corp, suddenly, "I wouldna wonder but what he's a gey lad wi 'the women!"

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He was burning to be downstairs to tell Gavinia that these things needed only a man.

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He was a public nuisance that night, and knocked various people up after they had gone to bed, to tell them that Gavinia was to have him.

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If he or Gavinia were nigh, they gathered their fowls round them and then said: "Hens, I didna bring you here to feed you, but just to tell you that Gavinia is to hae me."

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"Auld wifie," said Corp, "I dinna ken you, but I've just stepped up to tell you that Gavinia is to hae me."

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He continued, however, to propose and she to clout him until he heard, accidentally (he woke up in church), of a man in the Bible who had wooed a woman for seven years, and this example he determined to emulate; but when Gavinia heard of it she was so furious that she took him at once.

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"No, I winna sit down," he said; "I just cried in to tell you Gavinia is to hae me."

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"But, Corp, please don't discuss me with Gavinia."

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