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And doesn't the man come from Christian Ballawhaine!" "If it comes to that, though, haven't we all come from Adam?" said Grannie. "Yes; and from Eve too, more's the pity," said Cæsar. For some time thereafter Philip went no more to Sulby. He had a sufficient excuse. His profession made demand of all his energies.
Or lend it the ould man at mortgage on Ballawhaine. He's the besom of fire it'll come to you, sir, at the father's death, and who has more right?" The shank of Pete's pipe came down from his mouth as he sat for some moments beating out the ash on the jockey bar. "Something in that, though," he said mechanically. "But there's another has first claim for all.
She had urged him to the step by the twofold plea that the Ballawhaine was his only male relative of mature years, and that he had lately sent his own son Ross to study for the bar in England. Both were nervous and uncertain on the way down; Auntie Nan talked incessantly from under her poke-bonnet, thinking to keep up Philip's courage.
But she swerved round again to where the Ballawhaine came slinking behind him. "Turn me out of the house, will you?" she cried. "The place where I lived fifteen years, and as mistress, too, until your evil deeds made you master. Many a good cry I've had that it's only a woman I am, and can do nothing on my own head.
The sweet and natty old gentlewoman, brought up in the odour of gentility, was thinking on the lines of poor Bridget, Black Tom when dying under the bare scraas, that a man's son was his son in spite of law or devil. She decided against telling the Ballawhaine by remembering an incident in the life of his father.
I will do my duty by it. The child shall never want." He was offering the key to the lock of the prisoners' yard when some one passed him in the lane, peered into his face, then turned about and spoke. "Oh, it's you, Deemster Christian?" "Yes, doctor. Good-night!" "Have you heard the news from Ballawhaine? The old gentleman had another stroke this morning." "No, I had not heard it. Another?
"My father seemed to wish it, sir," said Philip. The Ballawhaine turned back to Auntie Nan. "Well, Miss Christian?" Auntie Nan fumbled the handle of her umbrella and began "We were thinking, Peter you see we know so little now if his father had been living " The Ballawhaine coughed, scratched with his nail on his cheek, and said, "You wish me to put him with a barrister in chambers, is that it?"
Quilliam," said Ross, "I come from my father this time." "'Deed, man," said Pete. "He is a little pressed for money." "And Mr. Peter Christian sends to me?" "He thought you might like to lend on mortgage." "On Ballawhaine?" Ross stammered and stuttered, "Well, yes, certainly, as you say, on Balla " "To think, to think," muttered Pete.
"The tragedy was deeper than that, dear; let me tell you a story," said Auntie Nan, laying down her book. "Three days after your father left Ballawhaine, old Maggie, the housemaid, came to my side at supper and whispered that some one was wanting me in the garden. It was Thomas.
"Success to the fine girl she always was, and lucky they kept her from the poor toot that was beating about on her port bow." "The young Ballawhaine, eh?" "Who else?" Presently the dog went out to them, and, in default of its master, became a centre of excited interest.
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