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"So completely was the air overloaded with falling and driving snow that, but for the force of the wind, I felt as if I had thrust my arm into a wreath of snow," he writes. Presently he roused Borthwick, who had slept soundly through the hubbub, and at once his fellow-shepherd dressed and tried to make his way from the byre to the kitchen, a distance of no more than fourteen yards.
Both his voice and his gestures are, he says, too large for him. But that, as ALGERNON BORTHWICK shrewdly points out, is professional jealousy supervening on the arrogance of excessive stature. The SQUIRE, though not lacking in moods of generosity, cannot abear a rival in the oratorical field.
Borthwick and give it to his son John, wha's married on a Glasca girl, a shelpit wee thing wi' a Glesca accent like skirling pipes played by a drunken piper."
He complained to Borthwick on receiving the order, "But you know that is dangerous," a fair expression of the feeling of the army as to their service at that time. They were too demoralized to make any impression on the insurgents.
"But what?" he asked eagerly, his delicate face flushing, his whole being held in suspense. "But I could not marry a priest. It would seem to be a sort of sacrilege." She was very pale when she went in that morning, and her mother noticed it, and questioned her. "Mr. Borthwick asked me to marry him, mother," she answered straight to the point, as was her wont. "He surprised me."
I knew he would the minute I saw him." "But this church," said Belding with a little lift in his voice, "is going to be built without money. Peterson, the masonry contractor at the works, will give the stone, and his masons will donate the labor. Borthwick, another contractor, will give the lumber and his carpenters will put it together.
Sir William Crichton had ridden out to meet them across the innumerable little valleys which lie around Temple and Borthwick to the brow of that great heathy tableland which runs back from the Moorfoots clear to the Solway. With him were only the Marshal de Retz and his niece, the Lady Sybilla.
This was likely to be Evadne's case. Yet her mother had been right about her having a deeply religious disposition. The vicar in charge of the church on the cliff he of the musical voice, Mr. Borthwick by name became aware at once of Evadne's regular attendance.
I may observe, for example, the case of an apparitor sent to Borthwick from the Primate of Saint Andrews, to cite the lord of that castle, who was opposed by an Abbot of Unreason, at whose command the officer of the spiritual court was appointed to be ducked in a mill-dam, and obliged to eat up his parchment citation.
And surely, if modern guide-books instruct us to weep in the cemetery of Père la Chaise over the grave of Fanny Bias, history will say a word or two in honour of Cerito, who proposed through the newspapers, last season, an alliance offensive and defensive with no less a man than Peter Borthwick, Esq.
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