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Your ex-Washlady, ELINORE RUPERT STEWART. November 16, 1912. At last I can write you as I want to. I am afraid you think I am going to wait until the "bairns" are grown up before writing to my friends, but indeed I shall not. I fully intend to "gather roses while I may." Since God has given me two blessings, children and friends, I shall enjoy them both as I go along.
You promised to come down to the burn-side with me; and it will soon be time for the milking." "But I must mind," said Effie, gravely. "The bairns will need these things before I can get two whole days at home again, and my aunt and the girls have enough to do without this. Duty before pleasure, Christie. See; you can help me by picking away this skirt. We must make the best of things."
It had been the same when Sir George was among the Aborigines of Australia, for the children promptly made friends with him. The grown natives, never having seen a white before, had sense to be scared. Their bairns merely had intuition, and it took them to Sir George's side, which, again, brought in the parents.
The second comman'ment that glorious recognition o' the divine in humanity makin' 't fit and needfu' to be loved, that claim o' God upon and for his ain bairns, that love o' the neebour as yer'sel he didna ken.
"How can you ask me that, Mr. Butler? Will this stain, d'ye think, ever be forgotten, as lang as our heads are abune the grund? Will it not stick to us, and to our bairns, and to their very bairns' bairns? To hae been the child of an honest man, might hae been saying something for me and mine; but to be the sister of a O my God!"
"It is very true," said the blind man, "that when I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants I whiles make a tale serve the turn among the country bodies; and I have some fearsome anes, that make the auld carlines shake on the settle, and the bits o' bairns skirl on their minnies out frae their beds.
"And you have more sense than to let the airs and nonsense of his bairn-wife vex you?" Graeme was silent a moment. She did not care to enter upon the subject of Arthur's wife just at this time. "I don't think you quite understand Fanny, Janet," said she, hesitating. "Weel, dear, maybe no. The bairns that I have had to deal with have not been of her kind.
But if Bobby was permitted to be buried with his master there must be no notice taken of it. Well, the Heriot laddies might line up along the wall, and the tenement bairns look down from the windows. Would that satisfy her ladyship? "As far as it goes." The Grand Leddy was smiling, but a little tremulous about the mouth.
In that case ye'll hae seen the last o' Jock Gordon. I canna be doin' wi' a gilravage o' bairns aboot a hoose " "Jock," said Ralph earnestly, "will you help me to see her before I go?" "'Deed that I wull," said Jock, very practically. "I'll gaun an' wauken her the noo!" "You must not do that," said Ralph, "but perhaps if you knew where Meg Kissock slept, you might tell her."
It got the better of the love of money, of the love of children, and of the love of progress. Wives who with their bairns were absolutely dependent on their husbands' labors, would wish their husbands to be at the war.
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