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Updated: June 3, 2025
"With Lazarus, once poor, now blest May'st thou enjoy eternal rest!" "All the world is turning golden, turning golden In the spring." On a day when May was growing old, everything up at Ardmuirland was green and gold except the sky, and that was mostly blue and gold. Gorse and broom were in full blossom, so that on all sides the outlook was glorious!
Thus it came about that a long visit to Val lengthened out indefinitely, and is not likely to terminate until one or other of us is removed hence. The ego appears rather prominently in these introductory paragraphs, it is true, but it was almost unavoidable; for my presence had to be accounted for in Ardmuirland before I could give reminiscences of this delightful spot.
For they wouldna' break their fast till the priest did, ye ken; it had aye been the custom in their young days, and they keepit it till they wes too weak to fast sae lang." Besides the Ardmuirland district, the priest had charge of two others at some little distance over the hills in different directions.
As we have seen, he died in harness, before there could be any question of retirement. And now another difficulty arose. His own native district naturally laid claim to his mortal remains, and his relatives had speedily made arrangements for his burial in the family grave. Then, indeed, Ardmuirland was stirred. "They wouldna' tak' him leevin'; they'll nae get him deid!" was the universal cry.
"Guess the latest news, Ted," said my brother, coming in from parochial visits. I shook my head. "I'm no hand at riddles." "Well, there's a marriage to come off in our parish before long, if matters can be satisfactorily arranged." "A marriage!" That roused me; it would be the first function of the kind I had seen in Ardmuirland.
She was such a cheery, kindly little body that every one at Ardmuirland was her friend; this accounted in great measure for the unusual interest in her prospects. I felt that it would be but neighborly to offer Christian my congratulations upon her approaching good fortune. Her little house stood near a belt of trees on a rising ground, a few feet from the road that led higher up the hill.
Farquharson, on account of his office, was the only person in the community who was on terms of cordiality with McConnachie; for the old man had a great idea of his position in Ardmuirland, and held himself somewhat above the common run of people.
The people worship him; that is the best testimonial of a country priest, and all that I need say about his interior man. If I did not know for certain that Longfellow never set eyes on Ardmuirland, I should maintain that the lines at the head of this chapter were meant for a description of it.
The priest who ministered to the Catholic flock of Ardmuirland in the far-off days when "Bell o' the Burn" was a lassie was known as "Mr.
Ardmuirland, indeed, took some little time to recover from the dazzling visions which the coming of "the millionaire" as Val and I delighted to style him in private had called up, but in a year or so Gowan's name had become a mere memory to most of us.
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