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"There was a gran' leddy, a bonny leddy, came in and talked like an angel o' God to puir auld Sandy, anent the salvation o' his soul. But I tauld her no' to fash hersel. It's no my view o' human life, that a man's sent into the warld just to save his soul, an' creep out again. An' I said I wad leave the savin' o' my soul to Him that made my soul; it was in richt gude keepin' there, I'd warrant.
"One's heartstrings, too, are pulled," she thought. "I don't like it. Marionettes should move, not feel." These reflections, however, came to her more often anent her family, and the struggles of her kin for a livelihood touched her more deeply than any love. "We are like bits of the same shattered body," she thought. "In these cold English families everybody is another body."
The teachers of the nation have unwittingly, it seems to me through unbelief, wronged the animals deeply by their silence anent the thoughtless popular presumption that they have no hereafter; thus leaving them deprived of a great advantage to their position among men.
And if we did not like the situation for none of us, whatever might have been our practice, shared Nina's hereditary theories anent the sexual conventions we recognised that we couldn't alter it, and we shrugged our shoulders resignedly, trusting it might be no worse.
But, please God, I will endeavour to fulfil this as I have through life tried, to the best of my capacity, to do every other duty; and, with the help of Mrs Balwhidder, who has a very clear understanding, I think I may get through my task in a creditable manner, which is all I aspire after; not writing for a vain world, but only to testify to posterity anent the great changes that have happened in my day and generation a period which all the best-informed writers say, has not had its match in the history of the world since the beginning of time.
H'm!" and wiping his lips gratefully. He made Wade promise to come and see him, quoted a couplet anent hospitality neglecting to give the author's name and took his departure. After supper Wade lighted his pipe and started in the direction of the Doctor's house, but he never got there that evening.
"It's early yet," I put in. "We'll cinch the record for good. Grab the rod. I'll enjoy the work for you." R. C. resigned himself, not without some remarks anent the insatiable nature of his host and boatman.
It gradually dawned on Blair that some gossip was rife anent a midnight marriage between his friend Daren Lane and Mel Iden. Blair was deeply shocked. Then his emotions, never calm, grew poignant. He listened. What he heard spoken of Daren and Mel made his blood boil.
But my mother, who was sitting behind me, touched her on the shoulder, bidding her be quiet; for the poor woman, being then doited, when left to the freedom of her own will, was apt to expatiate without ceasing on whatsoever she happened to discourse anent; and Nahum Chapelrig said to my father,
"Women, not measures," said the reigning wit anent the administration which Amber's Salon held together, and in which her husband occupied a position quite disproportionate to his nominal office, and still more so to the almost unparalleled brevity of his career as a private member. Few, indeed, were the recalcitrants who could resist Amber's smiles, or her still more seductive sulkiness.
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