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We're all school-teachers And this guide" she waved a hand in the direction of a rapt little group standing in the agonising position the ceiling demands "just informed us that the ceiling is by Raphael. And we're paying him ten lire!" "Won't you sit here?" Mary Gowd made a place for her. "I'll tell you."
Looking at her yellow skin and her wrinkles and her coarse hands, one wondered whether she was fifty, or sixty, or one hundred, as is the way with Italian women of Tina's class at thirty-five. Ah, the signora was tired! She smiled pityingly. Tired! Not at all, Mary Gowd assured her briskly. She knew that Tina despised her because she worked like a man. "Something fine for supper?"
And with regard to the English country, it is na Scotland, it is true, but it has its gude properties; and, though there is ne'er a haggis in a' the land, there's an unco deal o' gowd and siller. I respect England, for I have an auntie married there. The Scotch are certainly a most pugnacious people; their whole history proves it.
But they do not lean toward Pope or prelate.... I am Christian, where Christ is taken very universally the higher Self, the mounting Wisdom of us all.... Some high things you and I may view differently, but I believe that there are high things." "And seek them?" "And seek them." "You always had the air to me," vouchsafed White Farm, "of one wha hunted gowd elsewhaur than in the earthly mine."
He bethought him of a couplet that Grizzie had taught him when he was a child: Whan the coo loups ower the mune, The reid gowd rains intil men's shune. And in after-life he thought not unfrequently of this odd vision he had had.
But you have been troubling me about nothing half the night, and I am shivering with cold! We really must, both of us, go to bed! What would your mistress say!" "No," persisted Dawtie, "it wasna aboot the cup, gowd or no gowd; it was and is aboot my maister I'm troubled! I'm terrible feart for ye, sir! Ye're a worshiper o' Mammon, sir!"
"The chain of gowd!" re-echoed the housekeeper, both aghast with astonishment at the audacity of the proposal. "I will keep a few links," continued the young man, "to remind me of him by whom it was won, and the place where he won it," continued Morton; "the rest shall furnish me the means of following the same career in which my father obtained that mark of distinction."
"And I'll loop doun your hat, and lay by the band and ribband," said the officious dame; "and ye maun never, at no hand, speak o' leaving the land, or of selling the gowd chain, for your uncle has an unco pleasure in looking on you, and in counting the links of the chainzie; and ye ken auld folk canna last for ever; sae the chain, and the lands, and a' will be your ain ae day; and ye may marry ony leddy in the country-side ye like, and keep a braw house at Milnwood, for there's enow o' means; and is not that worth waiting for, my dow?"
You have, both of you, been valued servants both to my cousin and her nieces. I wish to make you a little present each." Here Sir John fumbled in his pocket, and took out a couple of sovereigns. But the old pair drew back in some indignation. "Na, na!" they exclaimed; "it isn't our love for them or for her as can be purchased for gowd." "Well, as you please, my good people.
Mary Gowd, with her frumpy English hat and her dreadful English fringe, and her brick-red English cheeks, which not even the enervating Italian sun, the years of bad Italian food or the damp and dim little Roman room had been able to sallow. Mary Gowd, with her shabby blue suit and her mangy bit of fur, and the glint of humour in her pale blue eyes.
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