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The fire, though coals are plenty in that neighbourhood, was husbanded with the closest attention to economy of fuel, and the small pipkin, in which was preparing the dinner of the old woman and her maid-of-all-work, a girl of twelve years old, intimated, by its thin and watery vapour, that Ailie had not mended her cheer with her improved fortune.
Again and again it came with ever-increasing violence, and then it burst on them with a continuous roar like prolonged thunder. "Look out," cried the captain, instinctively clasping Ailie in his arms, while the men sprang to their feet.
Jany. 2 Ailie had just sat down after clearing the dinner dishes away, when Ruth came running in crying she heard sleighbells coming up our road. I went out and was astonished when a sleigh came in sight, the horse dashing the snow into powder breast high. It was Mr Dunlop and his wife, who had come to pay us a New Year's call.
When they were about finally to part, the good farmer held Brown long by the hand, and at length said, 'Captain, the woo's sae weel up the year that it's paid a' the rent, and we have naething to do wi' the rest o' the siller when Ailie has had her new gown, and the bairns their bits o' duds.
"Oh," replied Thomas, "that's nothing. But I should like to shake Corp by the hand again." "And Aaron," said Elspeth. She was knitting stockings for Aaron at that moment. "And Gavinia," Tommy said, "and the Dominie." "And Ailie." And then came an awkward pause, for they were both thinking of that independent girl called Grizel. She was seldom discussed.
But James had him firm, and gave him a GLOWER from time to time, and an intimation of a possible kick; all the better for James, it kept his eye and his mind off Ailie. It is over: she is dressed, steps gently and decently down from the table, looks for James; then, turning to the surgeon and the students, she courtesies, and in a low, clear voice begs their pardon if she has behaved ill.
The wind had been gradually increasing during all these proceedings, and although no time had been lost, and the vessel had been immediately brought up into the wind, Ailie and Glynn were left struggling in the dark sea a long way behind ere the quarter-boat could be lowered; and now that it was fairly afloat, there was still the danger of its failing to hit the right direction of the objects of which it was in search.
In a moment Ailie and Mistress Jeanie were in the wet grass beside them, half a hundred casements flew open, and the piping voices of tenement bairns cried-down: "Did the bittie doggie come hame?" Oh yes, the bittie doggie had come hame, indeed, but down such perilous heights as none of them dreamed; and now in what a woeful plight!
"You mean to say that between last September and the end of the year you lost twenty-five thousand pounds?" "I did." "And you mean to say that you still went on with your gambling?" "Things were getting bad in Ailie Street, you know." "And you did your best to make them desperate."
Now, I never looked at Rab without thinking of the great Baptist preacher, Andrew Fuller. The same large, heavy, menacing, combative, sombre, honest countenance, the same deep inevitable eye, the same look as of thunder asleep, but ready neither a dog nor a man to be trifled with. Next day, my master, the surgeon, examined Ailie. There was no doubt it must kill her, and soon.
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