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They often walked with me, he said, in the morning, maybe a mile or two upon my road.
and when we parted and i said i'm very thankful to you god bless you they always seemed to understand and answered pleasant at last i come to the sea it weren't hard you may suppose for a seafaring man like me to work his way over to italy
When I got there, I wandered on as I had done before.
The people was just as good to me, and I should have gone from town to town, maybe the country through, but then I got news of her being seen among them Swiss mountains yonder.
One as knowed his servant see him there, all three, and told me how they travelled and where they was.
I made for the mountains, Master Davy, day and night.
Ever so far as I went, ever so far the mountains seemed to shift away from me.
But I come up with them, and I crossed them.
When I got nigh the places I had been told of, I began to think within my own self, what shall I do when I see her?
The listening face, insensible to the inclement night, still drooped at the door, and the hands begged me, prayed me, not to cast it forth.
"'I never doubted her,' said Mr. Pagody.
Only let her see my face.
Only let her hear my voice.
Only let my standing still afore her bring to her thoughts the home she had fled away from, and the child she had been.
And if she had grown to be a royal lady, she'd have fell down at my feet.
Many a time in my sleep had I heard her cry out, "'Uncle!'
and seen her fall like death afore me.'
many a time in my sleep had i raised her up and whispered to her emily my dear i am come for to bring forgiveness and to take you home he stopped and shook his head and went on with a sigh