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Having heard the adventure, Mr. Lammie produced a shilling from the pocket of his corduroys, and gave it to Robert to spend upon the needful string. He resolved to go to the town the next morning and make a grand purchase of the same.
Eh! but she was a bonnie wuman as ever I saw, an' that quaiet! It's my belief she never thocht aboot her ain beowty frae week's en' to week's en', and that's no sayin' little is 't, Aggy? 'I never preten't ony richt to think aboot sic, returned Miss Lammie, with a mild indignation. 'That's richt, lass. Od, ye're aye i' the richt though I say 't 'at sudna.
It was arranged for three days. Half-an-hour after, Robert came upon Mr. Lammie emptying the two bottles of whisky into the dunghill in the farmyard. He returned with glad heart to Rothieden. It did not take him long to arrange his grandmother's little affairs. He had already made up his mind about her house and furniture. He rang the bell one morning for Betty.
The whole business advanced the boys in favour at Bodyfauld; and the entreaties of Robert that nothing, should reach his grandmother's ears were entirely unnecessary. After breakfast Miss Lammie dressed the wounded foot. But what was to be done for shoes, for Robert's Sunday pair had been left at home?
Yon face o' hers comes back til me noo like the face o' a lost lammie 'at the shepherd didna think worth gaein oot to luik for. But gien I had sic a sair hert for her, the bonny man maun hae had a sairer, and he'll du for her what he can and that maun be muckle muckle! They ca' 'im the gude Shepherd, ye ken! He sat silent for some minutes, and Kirsty's heart was too full to let her speak.
Lammie, and indeed to cast himself upon the kindness of the household generally, Robert went up to his room to release his violin from its prison of brown paper. What was his dismay to find not his bonny leddy, but her poor cousin, the soutar's auld wife! It was too bad. Dooble Sanny indeed! He first stared, then went into a rage, and then came out of it to go into a resolution.
'Weel, they're a fine faimily, the Miss Napers. And, I wat, sin' they maun sell drink, they du 't wi' discretion. That's weel kent. Possibly Mr. Lammie, remembering what then occurred, may have thought the discretion a little in excess of the drink, but he had other matters to occupy him now. For a few moments both were silent. 'There's been some ill news, they tell me, Mrs.
'Oi; a morthal large number. 'I have never seen the house of a rich man. Would you show me through? My eyes are acheen to see the valuable furniture and things. 'Aisy, till they get asleep, my lammie. He was so gentle that he suggested a lamb to her Milesian imagination. He therefore told her some new version of the banishment of frogs from the Island of Saints by St.
'Bring me the warming-pan, said I; and I carried her upstairs and began undressing her by the nursery fire, which Bessy had kept up. I called my little lammie all the sweet and playful names I could think of, even while my eyes were blinded by my tears; and at last, oh! at length she opened her large blue eyes.
Lammie, when next he went to Aberdeen, to take the soutar's fiddle, and get what he could for it, to help his widow. 'Poor Sanny! said Robert, 'it never cam' intil 's heid to sell her, nae mair nor gin she had been the auld wife 'at he ca'd her. Mr. Lammie undertook the commission; and the next time he saw Robert, handed him ten pounds as the result of the negotiation.
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