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There is mercy for the prodigal daughter as weel as for the prodigal son;" and at these words Andrew went out with a dark, stern face, while she turned with a new and stronger tenderness to the dying woman. "God is love," she whispered; "if you hae done aught wrang, there's the open grave o' Jesus, dearie; just bury your wrang-doing there." She was answered with a happy smile.
And wha but I into the barn to winnow my three weights o' naething sair, sair my mind misgave me for fear of wrang-doing and wrang-suffering baith; but I had aye a bauld spirit. I had not winnowed the last weight clean out, and the moon was shining bright upon the floor, when in stalked the presence of my dear Simon Glendinning, that is now happy.
She is a vera strict pairson; the deil himsel' wouldna be suspected o' wrang-doing, if she were watching him." "Poor Maggie! David, it does seem a hard lookout for her; especially when you will be so happy with your books, and I am going on a two years' pleasure trip to America."
Andrew looked in amazement at this woman, who for thirty and more years had never before dared to oppose his wishes, and to whom his word had been law. "Davie's wrang-doing was weel kent, gude-wife; he hasted to sin like a moth to a candle." "It's weel that our faults arena written i' our faces." "I hae fallen on evil days, Mysie; saxty years syne wives and bairns werena sae contrarie."
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