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[Plowden Catan]

 so reproachful, so appealing, and so stimulating, that there was no
resisting it--diverted his reflections into quite another channel. "Vat
can I do to prove zat I am so friendly as ever?" he exclaimed. "So
FRIENDLY?" she repeated, with an innocently meditative air. "So vary
parteecularly friendly!" Her air relented a little--just enough, in
fact, to make him ardently desire to see it relent still further. "You
promise things to me, and then do them for other people's benefit." The
Baron eagerly demanded a fuller statement of this abominable charge.
"Well," she said, "you told me twenty times you would show me something
really Highland--that you'd kill a deer by torchlight, or hold a
gathering of the clans upon the castle lawn. All sorts of things you
offered to do for me, and the only thing you have done has been for the
sake of your NEW friends! You gave THEM a procession and a dance." "But
you did see it too!" he interrupted eagerly. "As part of your
procession," she retorted scornfully. "We felt much obliged to
you--especially as you were so attentive to us afterwards!" "I did not
mean to leave you," exclaimed the Baron weakly. "It was jost zat Miss
Maddison----" "I am not interested in Miss Maddison. No doubt she is
very charming; but, really, she doesn't interest me at all. You were
unavoidably prevented from talking to us--that is quite sufficient for
me. I excuse you, Lord Tulliwuddle. Only, please, don't make me any more
promises." "Eva! Ach, I most say 'Eva' jost vunce more! I am going to
leave my castle, to leave you, and say good-by." She started and looked
quickly at him. "Bot before I go I shall keep my promise! Ve shall have
ze pipers, and ze kilts, and ze dancing, and toss ze caber, and fling ze
hammer, and it shall be on ze castle lawn, and all for your sake! Vill
you not