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When she lowered her eyes they rested upon his gold-brown head, upon his hand in a little pool of light. "Eh, laddie!" said Mother Binning, "but ye grow mair braw each time ye come!" Elspeth thought him braw. The wishing-green where they danced, hand in hand!... Now she knew now she knew why her heart had lain so cold and still for months, for years, cold and still!
But just a wee bit impressionable and flirtatious, as who might not very well be with such a whiney-piney wife as Mrs. Recumbency was a mania with her and she had a disconcerting habit of wanting to lie down on the most inconveniently unsuitable occasions. To mitigate his over-flowing energies, which cried aloud for work, Mr. Binning took pupils.
"How gaes things with the lad at the House?" "Alexander or James?" "The one ye call Alexander." "That is his name." "I think that he's had ithers. That's a lad of mony lives!" Strickland, halting by the rose-bush, looked at Mother Binning. "I suppose we call it 'wisdom' when two feel alike. Now that's just what I feel about Alexander Jardine! It's just feeling without rationality." "Eh?"
This I know, that no literary speculation ever succeeded with me but where my own works were concerned; and that, on the other hand, these have rarely failed. And so Vogue la galère! Dined with the Lord Chief-Commissioner, and met Lord and Lady Binning, Lord and Lady Abercromby, Sir Robert O'Callaghan, etc.
"Yes, it's that way," said Ian, and so they came to Mother Binning's cot, the fire, and the coffee. Upon a quiet, gray December afternoon, nine years and more from the June day when he had fished in the glen and Mother Binning had told him of her vision of the Jacobite gathering at Braemar, English Strickland, walking for exercise to the village and back, found himself overtaken by Mr.
Langton and his brother-in-law, Lord Binning. I talked of the recent expulsion of six students from the University of Oxford, who were methodists and would not desist from publickly praying and exhorting. JOHNSON. 'Sir, that expulsion was extremely just and proper. What have they to do at an University who are not willing to be taught, but will presume to teach?
Sit ye and crack a bit with an auld wife by the road." But they had dallied at White Farm and in the cave, and Alexander was in haste. "We cannot stop now, Mother. We're bound for the Kelpie's Pool." "And why do ye gae there? That's a drear, wanrestfu' place!" said Mother Binning. "Ian has not seen it yet. I want to show it to him." Mother Binning turned her distaff slowly.
Strickland plucked a rose and smelled it. "This country is fuller of such things than is England that I come from." "Aye. It's a grand country." She continued to spin. The tutor looked at the sun. It was time to be going if he wished another hour with the stream. He took up his rod and book and rose from the door-step. Mother Binning glanced aside from her wheel.
At first the coper seemed to have the best of it, but afterwards the breeze freshened and the Sunbeam soon left it far astern. Seeing that the race was lost, the floating grog-shop changed her course. "Ah, she'll steer for other fleets where there's no opposition," remarked the skipper. "To win our first race is a good omen," said John Binning, with much satisfaction.
By the influence of his friend Mallet he became tutor to Lord Binning, s. of the Earl of Haddington, and was introduced to Pope, Arbuthnot, Gay, and others. Winter was pub. in 1726, and was followed by Summer , Spring , and Autumn , when the whole were brought together as The Seasons.
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