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Crossing the Bathgate Hills, he met the returning battalions of Lennox, with Lord Mar's, and also Sir John Graham's. Lord Lennox was thanked by Wallace for his good services, and immediately dispatched to reoccupy his station in Dumbarton.
Miss Bathgate had developed a real, if somewhat contemptuous, affection for Mawson, her lodger's maid, but she never ceased to pour scorn on her "English ways" and her English worship. If Mawson had not been one of the gentlest of creatures she would not have tolerated it for a day. One wet and windy evening Bella sat waiting for Mawson to come in to supper.
"Miss Jean, it's a marvel to me that you have anything left belonging to you." "Don't call me Miss Jean!" "Jean, then; but you must call me Pamela." "Oh, but wouldn't that be rather familiar? You see, you are so so " "Stricken in years," Pamela supplied. "No but well, you are rather impressive, you know. It would be like calling Miss Bathgate 'Bella' to her face. However Pamela "
If I did ask such a thing which Heaven forbid! she would probably send me in a huge pudding dish of macaroni and cheese. Her cooking is not the best of Bella. "She and Mawson have become fast friends. Mawson has asked Bella to call her Winifred, and she calls Miss Bathgate 'Beller. I sometimes overhear their conversations as they sit together by the kitchen fire in the long evenings.
Binney, to whom the discovery was imparted at the Edinburgh meeting of the British Association, in 1850, resolved on erecting works at Bathgate, in the centre of the Torbanehill coal district, for the manufacture of paraffin. Before setting out on this venture, however, Mr. Young took care to protect his invention by securing a patent.
One she dismissed as 'an auldish, impident wumman wi' specs'; and the other as 'terrible genteel. Both of them 'a sair come-down frae Miss Reston. Now you are gone you are on a pedestal." "I wasn't always on a pedestal," said Pamela, "but I shall always have a tenderness for Bella Bathgate and her parlour." She smiled to Lewis Elliot as she said it. Jean, sitting beside Mr.
She is 'andsome, don't you think?" "Terrible lang and lean," said Miss Bathgate. "But I'm no denyin' that there's a kind o' look aboot her that's no common. She would mak' a guid queen if we had ony need o' anither." "She makes a good mistress anyway," said loyal Mawson. "Oh, she's no bad," Bella admitted. "An' I must say she disna gie much trouble but it's an idle life for ony wumman.
After visiting Bath and Frome, he settled to work for six weeks at Bathgate; after which he travelled by Bradford and Trowbridge always on foot to Bristol. From thence he travelled through South Wales, spending a few days each at Newport, Llandaff, and Cardiff, where he took ship for Dublin.
"I remember that when I was a child," Jean said. "We used to be put to sleep with it; it is very soothing. Thank you so much, Miss Bathgate ... Now I think we should have a game." "Forfeits," Miss Teenie suggested. "That's a silly game," said Mhor; "there's kissing in it." "Perhaps we might have a quiet game," Jean said. "What was that one we played with Pamela, you remember, Jock?
A metal teapot and water-jug stood in two green worsted nests. Pamela poured herself out some tea. "I'm almost sure I told her I wanted coffee in the morning," she murmured to herself, "but it doesn't matter." Already she was beginning to hold Bella Bathgate in awe. She took the top off the duck's egg and looked at it in an interested way.
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