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Callander had been with them, and everything had been quite proper. But what a pity it was that he should devote so much of his time to that woman! 'Fancy his condition if he should be induced to marry her! said Miss Green, holding up her hands in horror. The idea was so terrible that Mrs. Callander declared that she would speak to him.
Callander. 'I hope I may escape any great evil. 'I hope so too, Mr. Caldigate. You probably have had a long roll of ancestors before you? 'We all have that; back to Adam. 'Ah! but I mean a family roll, of which you ought to be proud; all ladies and gentlemen. 'Upon my word I don't know. 'So I hear, and I have no doubt it is true. Then she paused, looking again into his face.
For the first 60 or 70 miles from Callander the line is ballasted entirely by sand, and, with the exception of a few settlements, is entirely without fencing. Most of the bridges are of timber; but there are one or two of the larger ones of iron or steel, with masonry abutments. "At Sudbury is the junction with the Algama Branch, not yet opened for traffic. This is 443 miles from Montreal.
The earth of this eminence is still thought to be possessed of some healing virtue, for when cattle are observed to be diseased some of it is sent for, which is rubbed on the part affected." In the parish of Callander, a beautiful district of western Perthshire, the Beltane custom was still in vogue towards the end of the eighteenth century.
At the distance of half a mile was the entrance to the narrow bay, where was the landing-place for our tourists, who meant to return to Stirling by Callander. Nell appeared completely worn out by the continued excitement of the day. A faint ejaculation was all she was able to utter in token of admiration as new objects of wonder or beauty met her gaze.
Smith, no doubt, knew very well that it was Mrs. Callander. 'Does not your ear catch separately the thud of her footfall every time she comes to the ground? 'She is fat, fair, and forty. 'Fat enough; and what she lacks in fairness may be added on to the forty; but if she were less ambitious and had a glimmer of taste, she might do better than that.
In 1745-46, as stated in the text, a garrison on the part of the Chevalier was put into the castle, then less ruinous than at present. It was commanded by Mr. Stewart of Balloch, as governor for Prince Charles; he was a man of property near Callander.
Caldigate; they don't dance well enough for ship dancing. Dancing, wherever it be done, should be graceful. A woman may at any rate move her feet in accordance with time, and she need not skip, nor prance, nor jump, even on board ship. Look at that stout lady. 'Mrs. Callander? Everybody by this time knew everybody's name. 'If she is Mrs. Callander? Mrs.
Afterwards, he was pelted with egg-shells, and retained the odious appellation during the whole year. And while the feast was fresh in people's memory, they affected to speak of the cailleach beal-tine as dead." In the parish of Callander, a beautiful district of Western Perthshire, the Beltane custom was still in vogue towards the end of the eighteenth century.
For the first time in his life, perhaps, in passing along the Canongate, he did NOT TURN TO LOOK AT HOLYROOD, the palace of the former sovereigns of Scotland. He did not notice the sentinels who stood before its gateways, dressed in the uniform of their Highland regiment, tartan kilt, plaid and sporran complete. His whole thought was to reach Callander where Harry Ford was supposedly awaiting him.
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