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They would but as they growled and cursed behind him, Eben McClure suddenly remembered that Julian Wemyss and my Lord Erskine were first cousins, and that so long as the government remained in office, it would be advisable to stand well with all friends and neighbours of the Secretary, Erskines, Wemysses, Melvilles, wherever found. He was unpopular enough in the country as it was.
But because they married into the Fife Wemysses yes, even this last of them, they have always retaken and held it, to our despite!" "Well, there's plenty more why worry, grandfather?" he said, fanning himself with the blue velvet college cap that had a bright gold badge in front. The old man started as if stung. He frowned and blinked like an angry bald eagle.
"Fegs, no," she cried, "what do ye tak' me for? Lassie, do ye not ken that I am here for the purpose o' lookin' after you little as I have been able to accomplish, with you as flichty as the Wemysses and as dour as the Ferrises. It is the Lord's ain peety that ye werena' born reasonable and wise like the Mintos !"
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