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One morning, a few days later, he appeared to Kirk, bursting with importance and news. "Well, sar! I have discovered your female," he announced, pompously. "No? What's her name? Who is she?" "Her is named Maria Torres, sar, and resides in the small 'ouse you h'observed upon the 'ill." "Did you SEE her?" Anthony could hardly believe his ears. "Oh yes, very h'extensively." "What does she look like?
Journals of Lords, vi. 200, 507, 546. Baillie, i. 421, 422, 471. came to the more important subject of church government, the opposition between them grew fierce and obstinate; and day after day, week after week, was consumed in unavailing debates. The kirk of Scotland remonstrated, the House of Commons admonished in vain.
But I often saw James Laidlaw after this; and somehow or other I aye met him just as I was coming out o' the kirk, and weel do I recollect that, one Sabbath in particular, he said to me 'Diana, will ye no come out and tak a walk after ye get your dinner? 'I dinna ken, James, says I; 'I doubt I daurna, for our folk are very particular, and baith my faither and my mother are terribly against onything like gaun about stravaigin on the Sundays. 'Oh, they need never ken where ye're gaun, says he.
Thus, although in the household and in kirk Ronald had heard King George prayed for regularly, he had heard no word concerning him calculated to waken a boyish feeling of loyalty, still less of enthusiasm.
We immediately hastened to Kirk Alloway, which is within two or three minutes' walk of the monument. A few steps ascend from the roadside, through a gate, into the old graveyard, in the midst of which stands the kirk. The edifice is wholly roofless, but the side-walls and gable-ends are quite entire, though portions of them are evidently modern restorations.
He looks like some of our Presbyterian elders; a plain, grave old man, with a bald head, and dressed in black; by the by, I believe I have heard that he is an elder in the National kirk; I am told he is a very good man. You don't know how strangely and dreamily this House of Lords, as seen to-day, mixed itself up with my historic recollections of by-gone days.
Accordingly, the two journeyed to Bottle Alley and selected some linen, whereupon, instead of one suit, the consul ordered three, having them charged to his account. Kirk really enjoyed that evening at the Wayfarers Club, for, once the cool of evening had come, the place filled up rapidly with as fine a crowd of men as he had ever met.
And douce Cameronians coming over Eden Valley hill stood still and wondered at the profanation of the holy day, not knowing. Even sober pillars of the Kirk Erastian going homeward smiled and shook their heads pityingly.
On the other hand, the real Church it might be of but 200 men was confronting the Kirk of the malignants, and alone was genuine. The State did not make and could not unmake 'the Trew Church, but was bound to establish, foster, and obey it. It was this last proviso which caused 130 years of bloodshed and 'persecution' and general unrest in Scotland, from 1559 to 1690.
"Just like Beethoven's things to the Countess von Something, don't you know!" Phil murmured, awed and rapturous. When Ken laid the pages down at last, Kirk seized on them, and though they could mean nothing to him but the cool smoothness of paper and the smell of newly dried printers' ink, he seemed to get an immense satisfaction from them. But the surprise was not yet over.
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