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As we approached Galashiels the next morning, where the bed of the silver Gala is nearly emptied by a number of dingy manufactories, the hills opened, disclosing the sweet vale of the Tweed, guarded by the triple peak of the Eildon, at whose base lay nestled the village of Melrose.
Private Charities, their General Character Probable Amount of them Missions on the Border Galashiels Abbotsford Letter of Pere de Ravignan, S.J. Kelso Letter of Father Taggart Burning of the Church at Kelso Charge of the Lord Justice-Clerk Article from the 'Scotsman' Missions in the Western Highlands Moidart Mr. Hope-Scott's Purchase of Lochshiel 'Road-making' Dr. Newman's 'Grammar of Assent' Mr.
Abbotsford, luckily, is above Galashiels, and only receives the dirt and dyes of Selkirk, Peebles, Walkerburn, and Innerlethen. On the other hand, your ill-omened later dwelling, 'the unhappy palace of your race, is overlooked by villas that prick a cockney ear among their larches, hotels of the future. Ah, Sir, Scotland is a strange place.
What is good or ill shall be mine own, or the contribution of friends to whom I may have private access. Many of my voluntary assistants might be cleverer than myself, and then I should have a brilliant article appear among my chiller effusions, like a patch of lace on a Scottish cloak of Galashiels grey.
On the following Saturday he travelled to Galashiels to attend the funeral of his cousin John Murray, whose room he had shared during his first session at the University, and in his prayer at the funeral service he referred in touching terms to the close of their life-long friendship.
In the evening came to town. Letter from Mr. Wait till Lockhart comes. May 25. Got into the old mill this morning, and grind away. Walked in very bad day to George Square from the Parliament House, through paths once familiar, but not trod for twenty years. Met Scott of Woll and Scott of Gala, and consulted about the new road between Galashiels and Selkirk.
The little towns of your time are populous and excessively black with the smoke of factories not, I fear, at present very flourishing. In Galashiels you still see the little change-house and the cluster of cottages round the Laird's lodge, like the clachan of Tully Veolan. But these plain remnants of the old Scotch towns are almost buried in a multitude of 'smoky dwarf houses' a living poet, Mr.
Thus he hoped, at one time, to see the Dominicans at Galashiels, and showed the greatest regard for the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, who were for nine years in charge of the mission there, while, both in London, and at Abbotsford and Dorlin, the Fathers of the Oratory and the Secular clergy were welcome and honoured guests. The high value he set upon the Rev.
The last cheque he signed with his failing hand was one for 900l. in discharge of the last debt on Galashiels Church. Hope-Scott had wished, almost immediately on finding himself a Catholic, to have a Jesuit Father at Abbotsford: The Pere de Ravignan, S.J. to J. R. Hope, Esq., Q.G.
He preluded as he spoke, in a manner which really excited my curiosity; and then, taking the old tune of Galashiels for his theme, he graced it with a number of wild, complicated, and beautiful variations; during which it was wonderful to observe how his sightless face was lighted up under the conscious pride and heartfelt delight in the exercise of his own very considerable powers.
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